February 2008
Intermediate to advanced
524 pages
13h 25m
English
book
IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Implementation and Performance Optimization for Large Scale Environments
by Vasfi Gucer, Naeem Altaf, Erik D Anderson, Dirk-Gary Boldt, Murtuza Choilawala, Isabel Escobar, Scott A Godfrey, Mauricio Morilha Sokal, Christopher Walker
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8.1 Introduction to IBM Tivoli Universal Agent
The IBM Tivoli Universal Agent (Universal Agent) is a generic agent of IBM Tivoli
Monitoring V6.1. This agent is capable of using data from a wide variety of data
providers.
You create data definitions that describe the source and structure of the data
supplied by the data providers, and you store the data definitions in metafiles
(metafiles are illustrated in Figure 8-1).
Figure 8-1 Metafiles
The data providers relay the monitoring data and the metafile statements to the
Universal Agent, which then ...
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