ITCAM for SOA is installed and operates within the management infrastructure of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment. ITCAM for SOA has several components.
An ITCAM for SOA data collector must be deployed and configured for every monitored runtime environment. The data collector is installed locally on the runtime environment host. The data collector saves data in metric files. The monitoring agent uses these files to prepare information for display in the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal. You can also use these files with Web Services Navigator for detailed analysis.
An ITCAM for SOA Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent (monitoring agent) interacts with the data collectors.
The monitoring agent is installed on every host that runs one or more runtime environments. It receives data from the data collectors that are configured for the environments, and transmits it to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.
The ITCAM for SOA SDMS agent is provided with ITCAM for SOA version 7.2 Fix Pack 1 and later. The agent is required only if you want to view Business Process Management monitoring data in the IBM SmartCloud® Application Performance Management UI version 7.6 or later. The agent provides minimal user-visible content in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. No agent-specific workspaces, situations, or take action commands are provided. The attribute groups are designed to provide a data interface to the Application Performance Management UI rather than for use in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server infrastructure consists of one or more Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Servers and a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. It works with various agents, including the ITCAM for SOA monitoring agent. For more information about this infrastructure, see the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring information center at http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.itm.doc_6.2.2fp2%2Fwelcome.htm.
Use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to view service-to-service topology spanning multiple servers, along with detailed information for individual servers.
The Tivoli Monitoring Infrastructure also saves the monitoring information to the Tivoli Data Warehouse. Use ITCAM for SOA Agent Reports to create predefined and on-demand reports based on the monitoring information in Tivoli Data Warehouse.
A DLA is a program that extracts data from a source application and creates XML files to pass to Tivoli Common Object Repository.
The SOA Domain Management Server runs on the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. The management server aggregates information received from monitored servers and prepares a single view of service-to-service topology.
The management server also manages interaction between ITCAM for SOA and several other products.