Book description
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring solution is the next generation of the
IBM Tivoli family of products that help monitor and manage critical
hardware and software in distributed environments. This IBM
Redbooks publication provides a practical guide to implementing,
using and optimizing IBM Tivoli Monitoring, including best
practices for performance tuning, sizing, high availability,
scalability, reporting, IBM Change and Configuration Management
Database integration and firewall considerations.
You will find a great deal of information about IBM Tivoli
Universal Agents, including versioning, remote deployment and
management, and meta servers.
We also delve into details of IBM Tivoli Monitoring of the
components, such as how these components interact, what is the
underlying technology, details of configuration files, and where to
check in case of problems.
This book is a reference for IT professionals who implement and use
the IBM Tivoli Monitoring solution in large scale environments.
Table of contents
- Notices
- Preface
- Chapter 1: Introduction to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1
- Chapter 2: Planning considerations - large scale deployment of Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 components
- Chapter 3: Firewall considerations
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Chapter 4: Planning historical data collection in large scale environments
- Short-term versus long term historical data
- Infrastructure considerations
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Size the Tivoli historical data collection
- Use the Warehouse Load Projections spreadsheet to estimate and control the Tivoli Warehouse database size (1/3)
- Use the Warehouse Load Projections spreadsheet to estimate and control the Tivoli Warehouse database size (2/3)
- Use the Warehouse Load Projections spreadsheet to estimate and control the Tivoli Warehouse database size (3/3)
- Estimate agents disk space for data collection using the Warehouse Load Projections spreadsheet
- Estimate the amount of historical data for Universal Agent applications (1/2)
- Estimate the amount of historical data for Universal Agent applications (2/2)
- Customize the Warehouse Load Projections spreadsheet
- Reduce the number of agents for historical data collection
- Other planning considerations for collecting historical data
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Chapter 5: Optimizing performance within an IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment
- Setting the heartbeat frequency
- Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server performance
- Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server performance
- Tivoli Enterprise Portal client performance
- Tivoli Data Warehouse performance
- OMEGAMON XE performance
- Event management integration performance
- Query optimization
- Situation optimization
- Platform-specific recommendations
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Chapter 6: Monitoring best practices
- Who owns the tool
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Defining the need for monitoring
- Understanding the terms
- Pure versus sampled events with impact to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 console user
- Pure versus sampled events and customer impact
- Identification of monitoring need
- Identify the target audience
- Identify and refine the possible events list
- Meet with the target audience for approval
- Create, test, and implement the monitor
- Building the monitoring
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 enhancements for event integration
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Chapter 7: Deploying IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents in a large scale environment
- Choosing the most suitable method for deploying agents
- Command line interface terminology
- Agent deployment architecture
- Considerations for installing OS and non-OS agents remotely
- Agent depots
- Deploying the monitoring agents by using the tacmd command
- Deploying agents using Tivoli Configuration Manager (or Tivoli Provisioning Manager)
- Chapter 8: Managing IBM Tivoli Universal Agent in a large scale deployment
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Chapter 9: Integrating data from external or third-party applications into Tivoli Data Warehouse
- Warehousing data using IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Universal Agent (script provider)
- Warehousing data using IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Universal Agent (ODBC provider)
- Tivoli Storage Manager Universal Agent in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
- Viewing data in Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server using an external ODBC data source (1/2)
- Viewing data in Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server using an external ODBC data source (2/2)
- Chapter 10: IBM Tivoli Monitoring resiliency and high availability
- Chapter 11: Reporting enhancements
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Chapter 12: IBM Change and Configuration Management Database integration
- IBM Change and Configuration Management Database and Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager fundamentals
- Using Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager and IBM Tivoli Monitoring to discover and deploy to unmanaged systems
- Using Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager and IBM Tivoli Monitoring to facilitate server consolidation
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Chapter 13: Troubleshooting
- Log files directory
- General terms, extensions, and product code
- Log file names and their usages
- Identifying the latest log file
- How to enable tracing (1/2)
- How to enable tracing (2/2)
- Using DIGUP to retrieve UNIX log files
- Using KINLOGS to format log file time stamps
- Common configuration problems (1/2)
- Common configuration problems (2/2)
- Appendix A: Product codes
- Appendix B: IBM Tivoli Monitoring component flow diagrams
- Appendix C: Additional material
- Related publications
- Index (1/3)
- Index (2/3)
- Index (3/3)
- Back cover
Product information
- Title: IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Implementation and Performance Optimization for Large Scale Environments
- Author(s):
- Release date: February 2008
- Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
- ISBN: None
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