In the following section, the key components of an IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM)
environment, which run in a server/client/agent configuration:
- TMS
- Tivoli® Monitoring Services provides
the software infrastructure upon which all other ITM components (the
TEMS, the TEP server and clients, and all the Agents) are built.
- TEP
- The Tivoli Enterprise Portal is the
user interface for ITM agents. It provides the status of your enterprise
and views of the data that the various ITCAM Agent for HTTP Servers collect.
TEP also gives you access to Take Actions commands and situations
that you can use to further customize data collection and reporting.
The
TEP comprises two pieces:
- The TEP server, which generally runs on a centrally
located server.
- The TEP client, which runs on individual user
computers and with which they directly interact to query and control
your enterprise's running systems.
Two different TEP clients are provided:
- The Tivoli Enterprise Portal workstation
client (called the desktop client)
- The TEP browser client,
which runs within a Web browser
- TEMS
- The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server provides
framework and database operations for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and the various
agents. The agents pass data to the TEMS, and then the TEP server
requests the data.
- Agents
- The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents collect
performance data about monitored environments such as HTTP Servers
and carry out your users' Take Action commands entered by using a
TEP client. A Monitoring Agent collects and distributes real-time
and historical performance data as needed to a TEMS.
- MTMS
- Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Services provides a full-screen Windows GUI.
Use this GUI to check the status of TMS processes such as the TEMS,
the TEP server, and the Agent, to stop or to recycle them, and to
reconfigure them.