IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 5.1.1 : creating resource models and providers / [Tony Bhe ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Bhe, Tony.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer systems--Evaluation.

Computer systems.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

Physical Description:

xxii, 512 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

[S.l.] : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, c2003.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Part 1 ITM fundamentals

Chapter 1. IBM Tivoli Monitoring architecture

1.1 Overview

1.2 High level architecture

1.3 Engine features and abilities

1.4 Endpoint integration

1.4.1 ITM data flow

1.4.2 Directory structures

1.5 ITM Engine architecture

1.5.1 Engine input

1.5.2 Engine output

1.5.3 Engine components

Chapter 2. Workbench

2.1 Introduction

2.2 Using Workbench

2.2.1 The Workbench panes

2.2.2 Elements in Resource Models

2.2.3 Looking at the PhysicalDiskModel

2.3 Creating Resource Models

2.3.1 Creating Resource Models using the wizard

2.3.2 Cloning existing Resource Models

2.3.3 Registering a Resource Model into ITM

2.4 Tools and extra information

2.4.1 WorkBench command line interface

2.4.2 Microsoft tools

2.4.3 Saxsoft

2.4.4 Rhino

Chapter 3. Resource Models

3.1 Resource Model overview

3.1.1 Logical components

3.1.2 Physical components

3.1.3 Types of Resource Models

3.2 Resource Models

3.2.1 Resource Models for each platform

3.2.2 Windows Resource Models

3.2.3 UNIX Resource Models

Chapter 4. Providers

4.1 Overview

4.2 Industry technologies

4.2.1 Web-Based Enterprise Management (WBEM)

4.2.2 The Common Information Model (CIM)

4.2.3 Managed Object Format (MOF)

4.2.4 CIM Provider layer

4.2.5 Windows Management Interface (WMI)

4.2.6 Java Management Extensions (JMX)

4.3 Tivoli implementations

4.3.1 ITM Engine components

4.3.2 Legacy support

4.3.3 Touchpoint Service Layer

4.3.4 CIM object definition

4.3.5 Tivoli ILT Provider Interface

4.3.6 Tivoli Management Extensions for Java (TMX4J)

Part 2 Practical examples.

Chapter 5. Engineering a Java ILT

5.1 Terminology

5.2 Planning and design

5.2.1 Resource Model

5.2.2 CIM class

5.2.3 ILT class

5.2.4 Provider class

5.2.5 Component reference

5.3 Implementing

5.3.1 Managed Object Format (MOF)

5.3.2 ILT Java class

5.3.3 Provider Java class

5.3.4 Resource Model

5.4 Packaging

5.4.1 Testing and importing the MOF

5.4.2 Java compilation

5.4.3 Making the jar file

5.4.4 Assembling the Resource Model

5.4.5 Building the Resource Model

5.5 ITSO_Sample template

5.5.1 ITSO_Sample.mof

5.5.2 ITSO_SampleIlt.java

5.5.3 ITSO_Sample.java

5.5.4 Resource Model JavaScript

Chapter 6. Creating an SNMP Resource Model for Windows

6.1 Designing the Resource Model

6.1.1 Design overview

6.1.2 What part of ITM will we use?

6.1.3 Detailed design Resource Model

6.2 Creating the Resource Model

6.2.1 Installing SNMP and WMI SNMP on the managed machine

6.2.2 Creating the new SNMP Resource Model

6.2.3 Packaging the Resource Model

6.2.4 Testing the Resource Model

6.3 ITSO_SNMP_Interface_Bps source code

6.3.1 ITSO_SNMP_Interface_Bps.vba

Chapter 7. Creating an SNMP Resource Model for Java

7.1 Terminology

7.2 Planning and design

7.2.1 Resource Model

7.2.2 CIM class

7.2.3 ILT class

7.2.4 Provider class

7.2.5 Component reference

7.3 Implementing

7.3.1 Managed object format

7.3.2 ILT Java class

7.3.3 Provider Java class

7.3.4 Resource Model

7.4 Packaging

7.4.1 Testing and importing the MOF

7.4.2 Java compilation

7.4.3 Making the jar file

7.4.4 Assembling the Resource Model

7.4.5 Building the Resource Model

7.5 ITSO_SnmpProbe source code

7.5.1 ITSO_SnmpProbe.mof

7.5.2 ITSO_SnmpProbeILT.Java

7.5.3 ITSO_SnmpProbe.Java

7.5.4 SnmpInterface.Java

7.5.5 Resource Model JavaScript.

Chapter 8. Creating a log-file Resource Model

8.1 Engine component utilization: Overview

8.2 Creating the MOF files

8.3 Compiling the MOF file

8.4 Creating the Resource Model

8.5 Constructing the Resource Model: Events

8.6 Constructing the Resource Model: Dependencies

8.7 Constructing the Resource Model: Inserting code

8.8 The flow of the code

Chapter 9. Creating a log-file Resource Model and ILT

9.1 Designing the ITSO_LogfileLite Resource Model and ILT

9.1.1 Design overview

9.1.2 What part of ITM will we use?

9.1.3 The detailed design of the ITSO_LogfileLite Resource Model

9.2 Creating the ITSO_LogfileLite Resource Model and ILT

9.2.1 Setting up the development environment

9.2.2 Creating the MOF file

9.2.3 Creating the ITSO_LogfileLite ILT code

9.2.4 Creating the Resource Model

9.2.5 Packaging

9.2.6 Testing the Resource Model

9.3 ITSO_LogfileLite source code

9.3.1 ITSO_LogfileLite.mof

9.3.2 ITSO_LogfileLite-wmi.mof

9.3.3 ITSO_LogfileLiteILT.java

9.3.4 ITSO_LogfileLite.java

9.3.5 ITSO_LogfileLite_RM.js

Chapter 10. Creating a custom script Resource Model

10.1 Designing the ITSO_ProcessNum Resource Model

10.1.1 Design overview

10.1.2 What part of ITM will we use?

10.1.3 The detailed design of the ITSO_ProcessNum Resource Model

10.2 Creating a custom script Resource Model

10.2.1 Using the wizard to create a custom script Resource Model

10.2.2 Extending the functions of the Resource Model

10.2.3 Packaging

10.2.4 Testing the Resource Model

10.3 ITSO_ProcessNum source code

10.3.1 ITSO_ProcessNum.js

10.3.2 ITSO_ProcessNum.ksh

Chapter 11. File monitoring Resource Model example

11.1 Engine component utilization: Overview

11.2 Compiling DMXFile MOF into Workbench

11.2.1 Extraction of MOF from DMXFile resource monitor.

11.2.2 Strip UNIX control characters from the MOF file

11.2.3 Extraction of dependencies from the DMXFile resource monitor

11.2.4 Compiling the MOF file to the CIM repository

11.3 Constructing the Resource Model: Dynamic Model

11.3.1 Constructing the Resource Model: Events

11.3.2 Constructing the Resource Model: Parameters

11.3.3 Constructing the Resource Model: Dependencies

11.3.4 Constructing the Resource Model: Inserting code

11.3.5 The flow of the code

Part 3 Appendixes

Appendix A. Testing a Java Resource Model

ITM Engine tracing and clean-up

Debugging the Init function

Debugging the VisitTree function

Simulating data Providers

Verifying the Resource Model logging

Appendix B. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"August 2003."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

137342218