Use the following list to perform monthly health checks.
Tasks
Include all of the checks from the daily and weekly item checklist.
If you are collecting historical data and storing it in the warehouse
make sure your monthly summarization is correct. Validate this by running
reports from the portal client to ensure you have the correct monthly summarized
data.
Check the list of managed systems deployed in your Tivoli Monitoring environment.
Take note of their maintenance levels. Check with IBM Software Support or your IBM® account representative
to see if new fix packs and interim fixes are available. If so, determine
what has been fixed so you can decide if you want to deploy the patches to
your environment or just wait until the next major fix pack.
Once again check your situation thresholds to make sure you don't
have false positive events. In large user environments there are many factors
that can have an affect on how a system performs. The change in performance
in any system can change the way Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 reports status for any given
system. Make sure the events active in Tivoli Monitoring are real.
Take inventory of the systems being managed by Tivoli Monitoring. There might
be a need to deploy additional agents on new systems or systems where new
applications have been added.
Assess the capacity of the infrastructure systems for resource CPU, memory
and disk utilization to continually plan for overall workload balancing. As
new versions of applications are introduced into the environment, their affect
on resources typically change. This ongoing effort helps ensure the correct
hardware is in place. Confirm the number of agents connected to each remote monitoring server to
ensure that you have not exceeded the recommended limit of 1500 agents.
Monitoring, Version 6.2