There are a few factors to consider when determining the location of your Tivoli® Monitoring components. The primary factors are firewalls and slow network connections. Before discussing the locations of these components in the data center, you must understand these components, the roles that they play, and what affects the load on these components.
The Tivoli Monitoring components and data paths to the Tivoli event management products are illustrated in Figure 1.
Figure 1. Tivoli Monitoring
component architecture including firewall gateway
The specific hardware and software prerequisites for each of these components are listed in Hardware and software requirements.