Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.2

Contents

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About this guide
Pre-deployment phase
Planning checklist
Understanding Tivoli Monitoring and your network
Determine if you require a firewall gateway
Determine where to place your Tivoli Monitoring components
Additional ports used in the Tivoli Monitoring environment
Sizing your Tivoli Monitoring hardware
Locating and sizing the Hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
Locating and sizing the Remote Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
Locating and sizing the remote deployment depot
Locating and sizing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
Locating and sizing the Warehouse Proxy agent
Locating and sizing the Summarization and Pruning agent
Locating and sizing the Portal client
Platform support matrix for Tivoli Monitoring
Configuring for high availability and disaster recovery
Configuring for hub monitoring server high availability and disaster recovery
Configuring for portal server high availability and disaster recovery
Configuring for agent and remote monitoring server high availability and disaster recovery
Configuring for warehouse high availability and disaster recovery
Configuring for Warehouse Proxy agent high availability and disaster recovery
Configuring for Summarization and Pruning agent high availability and disaster recovery
Agent deployments
Tivoli Universal Agent deployments
Tivoli Universal Agent versioning considerations
Tivoli Universal Agent firewall considerations
Large-scale deployment strategies
Using Universal Agents with remote monitoring servers
Mainframe users
Multi-hub environments
Accelerating your custom monitoring
Planning and project management
Estimating deployment tasks
Install server components on Windows and UNIX
Install server components on z/OS
Install data warehousing components
Install and configure event integration components
Install and configure monitoring agents
Setting up situation-based monitoring
Creating policies and workflows
Creating workspaces
Creating and depolying Tivoli Universal Agent applications
Transferring skills
Scheduling the initial deployment
Scheduling for fix packs
Staffing
Deployment phase
Pre-installation checklist
Installing the infrastructure components
Configuration checklist
Customizing your environment
Changing the default monitoring server configuration settings
Enabling historical collection of CandleNet Command Center logs
Installing your first 50 agents
Post-installation checklist
Configuring your warehouse
Installing additional agents
Post-deployment phase
Applying maintenance
Planning an upgrade
Upgrade steps
Post-upgrade health check
Maintaining an efficient monitoring environment
Daily health checks
Weekly health checks
Monthly health checks
Quarterly health checks
Performance tuning
Configuring the heartbeat interval
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring agents
Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
Configure an external Web server for large environments
Portal server parameter tuning
Tivoli Enterprise Portal client
Tuning the portal client JVM
Portal client parameter tuning
Tivoli Data Warehouse
Historical data collection
Warehouse proxy agent
Summarization and Pruning agent
Database tuning
Relational database design and performance tuning for DB2 database servers
Optimizing queries
Processing queries
Defining custom queries
Optimizing situations
Planning for platform-specific scenarios
Disabling TCP-delayed acknowledgements on AIX systems
Improving tacmd command response time when using VMware
Increasing portal server virtual memory on AIX
File descriptor limit on UNIX and Linux systems
Appendix. Additional resources
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6 Welcome Kit
General education and support Web sites
Product documentation and IBM Redbooks
Education offerings
Service offerings
Other resources
Documentation library
IBM Tivoli Monitoring library
Documentation for the base agents
Related publications
Other sources of documentation
Notices
Trademarks
Index


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