Tivoli® Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager brings together multiple components to provide Tivoli Storage Manager data collection, real-time monitoring of that data, and historical reports.
IBM® Tivoli Monitoring acts as a monitoring application that provides workspaces for you to monitor real-time information. You can monitor the Tivoli Storage Manager server status, database size, agent status, client node status, scheduled events, server IDs, and so on, using the monitoring workspaces.
Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager also provides reports that are based on the historical data retrieved. You can use the existing historical reports that are provided, or you can create your own custom reports.
- IBM DB2®
- Stores historical data that is obtained from Tivoli Storage Manager servers that are monitored by IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Consists of a number of components that accumulate and monitor
historical data for reporting:
- Tivoli Enterprise Portal server
- Tivoli Data Warehouse
- Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring server
- Summarization Pruning agent
- Warehouse Proxy agent
- Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager agent
- As workspaces from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
- As reports that use the Tivoli Data Warehouse and the reporting portion of Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager
The agent is installed on the Tivoli Storage Manager server or the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server, and is a multi-instance data collection agent.
The Tivoli Monitoring
for Tivoli Storage Manager agent
communicates with the Tivoli Monitoring
for Tivoli Storage Manager server
to retrieve data from its database and return this data to the Tivoli Monitoring server.
The agent communicates with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server to
retrieve data from the database and return this data to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server. Remember: You can view Tivoli Monitoring
for Tivoli Storage Manager information
for Solaris and HP-UX systems, but only on a Windows, AIX®,
or Linux IBM Tivoli Monitoring server.Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager reports on the Tivoli Storage Manager server activities from data that is collected using the Tivoli Storage Manager monitoring agent. The monitoring feature uses the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to view the status of the Tivoli Storage Manager server.
