Overview of IBM Tivoli Monitoring

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring products monitor the performance and availability of distributed operating systems and applications. These products are based on a set of common service components, referred to collectively as Tivoli Management Services. Tivoli Management Services components provide security, data transfer and storage, notification mechanisms, user interface presentation, and communication services in an agent-server-client architecture (Figure 1). These services are shared by a number of other products, including IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE mainframe monitoring products and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager products, as well as other IBM Tivoli Monitoring products such as Monitoring for Applications, Monitoring for Databases, Monitoring for Cluster Managers, and Monitoring for Messaging and Collaboration.

This book contains information on deploying, installing and configuring the common services components and the monitoring agents that comprise the base IBM Tivoli Monitoring product (Table 1) on distributed systems. If you purchased a product other than IBM Tivoli Monitoring that uses Tivoli Management Services, use this book to install and configure the common components. Do not install the base agents unless you have purchased IBM Tivoli Monitoring as a separate product. If you purchased additional IBM Tivoli Monitoring products, refer to their documentation for agent-specific installation and configuration information.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 products are enabled for use with IBM Tivoli License Manager. Tivoli Management Services components and Monitoring agents provide inventory signature files and usage definitions that allow License Manager to report installed products and product usage by computer. License Manager support is an optional capability that requires License Manager version 2.2 or later.

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