This chapter reviews the new features and enhancements that affect installation or configuration, and describes the architecture of the IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring products. This information will help you to plan your deployment and prepare to install, upgrade, or configure the product's base components.
Tivoli Monitoring products use a set of service components (known collectively as Tivoli Management Services) that are shared by a number of other product suites, including IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® XE monitoring products, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager products, System Automation for z/OS®, Web Access for Information Management, and others. The information in this section is also relevant to these products.