IBM Tivoli monitoring version 5.1 : advanced resource monitoring / [Stephen Hochstetler ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hochstetler, Stephen.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer systems--Evaluation.

Computer systems.

TME (Computer file).

IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

Physical Description:

xxvi, 556 p. : ill.

Edition:

3rd ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin : IBM International Technical Support Organization, 2002.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Summary of changes

October 2002, Third Edition

Part 1 Planning

Chapter 1. Introduction

1.1 Overview

1.2 Architecture

1.3 Integration with Common Information Model

1.4 Resource model

1.5 New features

1.5.1 Mdist2 support

1.5.2 Web Health Console

1.5.3 Migrating from Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Classic Edition)

1.5.4 Migrating from Tivoli Web Component Manager

1.5.5 Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse Support

1.5.6 Additional response actions

Chapter 2. Planning the implementation

2.1 Systems management

2.1.1 Information Technology Infrastructure Library

2.1.2 Availability Management

2.2 Systems monitoring design considerations

2.2.1 High-level design considerations

2.2.2 Solution objectives and requirements gathering

2.2.3 Environment review and gap analysis

2.2.4 Testing

2.2.5 Limiting factors

2.3 Monitoring systems resources

2.4 Resource model overview

2.4.1 Resource models

2.4.2 Understanding the IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 engine

2.4.3 Thresholds and indications

2.4.4 Windows resource models

2.4.5 Correlated events

2.4.6 UNIX resource models

2.5 Installation and configuration planning

2.5.1 Hardware requirements

2.5.2 Software requirements

2.6 Planning for migration

2.6.1 Think migration, not upgrade

2.6.2 Auditing your current environment

2.6.3 Tivoli Monitoring versions that can coexist

2.7 Summary

Chapter 3. Firewall considerations

3.1 The Tivoli Firewall Security Toolbox

3.2 Special considerations for firewall environments

3.2.1 Web Health Console

3.2.2 Distributing Resource Models

3.2.3 Endpoint-generated TEC events.

Part 2 Installation and migration

Chapter 4. Installation and migration

4.1 Installation and migration guidelines

4.1.1 Project environments

4.1.2 Framework requirements

4.1.3 Software requirements

4.1.4 Migration

4.2 Installation and upgrade

4.2.1 Fresh Installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1

4.2.2 Upgrade to IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1

4.2.3 Installing prerequisite software on endpoints

4.2.4 Installing JRE

4.3 Uninstalling the product

4.3.1 Uninstalling IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 from endpoints

4.3.2 Uninstalling IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 from the server/gateway

4.4 Installing TBSM IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1

4.5 Installing Web Health Console

4.6 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Historical Data Gathering

Chapter 5. Migrating Classic Edition monitors

5.1 Migration process

5.1.1 Migration overview

5.1.2 Custom monitors overview

5.1.3 Sentry profile analyzer

5.2 Classic Edition monitor conversion example

5.3 Custom numeric monitor conversion example

5.4 Converting a CSL-based monitor

Chapter 6. Migrating from Tivoli Web Component Manager

6.1 Tools

Part 3 Configuration

Chapter 7. Heartbeat

7.1 Heartbeat overview

7.1.1 Endpoint registration

7.1.2 Heartbeat monitoring

7.1.3 Viewing the endpoint cache

7.2 Installing and configuring heartbeat

7.3 TEC event classes and rule sets

7.3.1 HeartBeat_Off

7.3.2 HeartBeat_EndpointUnreachable

7.3.3 HeartBeat_DMAgentDown

7.3.4 HeartBeat_DMAgentAlive

7.3.5 HeartBeat_ResourceModelsInError

7.3.6 HeartBeat_DMAgentRestarted

7.3.7 HeartBeat_EndpointMigrated

7.3.8 Heartbeat-related TEC Rules

Chapter 8. Web Health Console

8.1 Overview of the Web Health Console

8.2 Web Health Console components

8.3 Defining health

8.4 Using the Web Health Console.

8.4.1 Logging on to the Web Health Console

8.4.2 The Web Health Console main view

8.4.3 The Endpoint List View

8.4.4 The Resource Model List View

Chapter 9. Configure and maintain IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1

9.1 Configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1

9.1.1 Creating and customizing profiles

9.1.2 Profile distribution

9.2 Maintaining your environment

9.2.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 command line

9.2.2 Heartbeat maintenance

9.2.3 Directories

9.2.4 Logs and files

9.3 New classes in the Tivoli database

9.3.1 Classes

9.3.2 Distinguished

9.3.3 Name registry resource types

Chapter 10. Workbench

10.1 New features

10.1.1 Compatibility mode

10.1.2 Custom scripting support

10.1.3 New response actions

10.1.4 Customizable messages for TEC and TBSM events

10.1.5 Wizard for UNIX resource models

10.1.6 New service object APIs

10.1.7 New CLI support

10.2 Using the Workbench

10.2.1 The Workbench panes

10.2.2 Elements of a resource model

10.2.3 Looking at the PhysicalDiskModel

10.3 Resource model examples

10.3.1 ITSO_PhysicalDiskModel example

10.3.2 ITSO_LogicalDiskModel example

10.3.3 ITSO_LoadAvg example

10.3.4 ITSO_FileSystem Example

10.4 Tools and extra information

10.4.1 WorkBench Command Line Interface

10.4.2 Resource model internal format

10.4.3 Microsoft tools

10.4.4 Saxsoft

10.4.5 Rhino

Part 4 Integration

Chapter 11. TEC integration

11.1 Enabling IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 to forward events to TEC

11.1.1 Configuring a profile to send events to TEC

11.1.2 Configuring the heartbeat function to send events to TEC

11.2 Configure TEC to receive events

11.2.1 Using the Tivoli-provided script

11.2.2 Manual update of TEC rule base

11.2.3 Viewing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 events in TEC.

11.2.4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 event aggregation and TEC

11.2.5 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 event classes

11.2.6 TMW_Event

11.2.7 Clearing events

11.2.8 The supplied rule sets

11.2.9 Event definitions - Baroc files

11.2.10 Event caching on endpoints and gateways

Chapter 12. Tivoli Business Systems Manager integration

12.1 Overview of Tivoli Business Systems Manager

12.2 Tivoli Business Systems Manager integration

12.3 Install/configure IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 TBSM Adapter

12.3.1 JRE Version 1.3.0 installation

12.3.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 TBSM Adapter installation

12.3.3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 TBSM Adapter configuration

12.4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 TBSM Adapter

12.4.1 Endpoint discovery

12.4.2 Event forwarding to Tivoli Business Systems Manager

Chapter 13. Data Warehouse

13.1 Introduction to Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse

13.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 data flow

13.3 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 PAC

13.3.1 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 PAC in TEDW

13.3.2 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 Data Gathering

13.3.3 Explanation of installed tasks/jobs

13.4 Configuring TEDW

13.5 Creating and configuring the data mart

13.6 Creating a report

Part 5 Troubleshooting

Chapter 14. Troubleshooting

14.1 Logs and traces format

14.2 TMR Server logs and traces

14.2.1 Profile distribution process

14.3 Gateway logs and traces

14.3.1 Heartbeat engine traces

14.3.2 Task engine trace

14.3.3 Tivoli Business Systems Manager engine traces

14.3.4 Tivoli Business Systems Manager adapter trace

14.3.5 Tivoli Business Systems Manager transport trace

14.3.6 Endpoint upcall traces

14.3.7 Request manager trace

14.3.8 Profile core trace

14.4 Endpoint logs.

14.4.1 Common endpoint logs

14.4.2 Windows endpoint logs

14.4.3 Non-Windows endpoints logs

14.4.4 Web Health Console logs and traces

14.5 Tools

14.5.1 Tool to generate XML file

14.5.2 Autotrace

14.5.3 Serviceability tasks

14.6 Known problems and their resolutions

14.7 Problem determination

Appendix A. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

How to use the Web material

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other resources

Referenced Web sites

How to get IBM Redbooks

IBM Redbooks collections

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"October 2002."

"SG24-5519-02."

Includes bibliographical references (p. 533-535) and index.

OCLC:

932363553