A&BSM Enablement Best Practices

Tivoli Education

We've added an "Education" section under the resources section of this site. Visit this education section to see what A&BSM related courses are currently being offered by IBM.

Tivoli Self Monitoring Solutions

Need solutions to help you monitor the performance and availability of your Tivoli environment? Check out these recent additions to the solutions catalog:

IBM Tivoli Directory Server Monitoring Solution

The Tivoli Directory Server Monitoring Solution uses a Perl script to make direct connections to Tivoli Directory Server and extract all general metrics including:

• Connection information
• Bind information
• Filter Cache metrics
• LDAP Operations requested and Completed
• And more…

IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Monitoring Solution

The Tivoli Storage Manager Monitoring Solution uses the ODBC Data Provider to capture all the metrics data from Tivoli Storage Manager tables. There are 78 tables in the Tivoli Storage Manager database, with 867 metrics or columns available in these 78 tables. All of these metrics are captured, and the user can modify the amount of data returned based on their specific requirements.

ITM Data Warehouse DB Activity Monitoring Solution

This UA application is useful for ITM 6.1 administrators to set up Warehouse monitoring to avoid Warehouse DB and data problems. ITM 6.1 Operators can use it to monitor and act in case of problems. With this solutions, you can:

• Find out Warehouse DB problems and generate an event
• Check if history detailed data was written to the database or not
• Check if for some rows insertion was skipped, size of tables (rows inserted)
• Check if history detailed data was pruned (deleted) or not
• Check Warehouse DB size (in M Byte and total rows)
• Check if summarization/pruning tables were created/updated or not
• And more...

Tivoli Continuous Data Protection Monitoring Solution

This Solution monitors the internal metrics, log files and disk usage metrics provided by the Tivoli Continuous Data Protection software.

Remote Monitoring Solutions

Want to remotely check the availability of servers in your environment? Then check out these solutions:

Perl Ping Monitoring Solution

This Universal Agent solution will use the “ping” command to determine what systems are up in your environment. If the system is in the up state, this solution will also return the response time of the ping command in milliseconds.

***Coming Soon: REXX Socket Based Monitoring Solution

This Universal Agent monitoring solution will demonstrate how to utilize a z/OS REXX script to perform remote monitoring on your zSeries system. This REXX script will then send the collected data on the z/OS system back to the Universal Agent.

Other Monitoring Solutions

Compaq/DEC Tru64 Monitoring Solution

The Solution provides the capability of monitoring Compaq/DEC Tru64 using the ITM 6.1 Universal Agent. The solution uses the SNMP data provider to extract metrics about the health of your Tru64 operating system. Data collected includes:

• Buffer caches hits and misses
• CPU load average (5 sec, 30 sec and 60 sec)
• Semaphore statistics
• Virtual memory and swap
• File system usage
• Top processes
• Top users
• System memory usage and information
• Sensors: fan, power supply, voltage and temperature
• And more…

***Coming Soon: DataPower Monitoring Solution

The fusion of DataPower with WebSphere software, allows companies to harness the power of SOA by offering a consumable, easy-to-use product to ease SOA implementations. The combination offers a new pragmatic approach to XML and Web services security while recognizing the value of your existing infrastructure investments to:

• Deliver middleware functionality in appliance packaging that greatly simplifies the IT infrastructure
• Enhance security protection of Web services with its drop-in XML Security Gateway.
• Accelerate SOA performance instantly reducing latency and increase throughput of SOA processing

Check back soon to see how to monitor your DataPower servers with your ITM 6.1 environment.

New Articles

Check out these articles that have been added to the Resource section of this site:

• ITM 6.1 / TDW 2.1 Warehouse Capacity Planning
• ITM 6.1 TEMS Web Services/SOAP documentation and samples
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 Distributed Monitoring Upgrade Toolkit
• ***Coming Soon: Agent vs. Agent-less discovery
• ***Coming Soon: Monitoring mySAP™ Business Applications & Processes with IBM® Tivoli Monitoring for Applications: mySAP
• ***Coming Soon: ITM 6.1 – TSLA Integration