You can use the internal IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring Log File Agent that is installed with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis or you can use an external IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent to stream data from local or remote servers.
You can also use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent to upload a batch of historic data. For more information, see Loading batches of historic data with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent.
You can integrate the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis in two ways.
You can use it with the version of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent that is installed with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis. This is known as the internal IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent.
You can also use it with an IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent that has been installed separately as part of another installation.
You can use local and remote versions of both types of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent.
The following graphic illustrates these possibilities:
- 1. Internal IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent on a local server
- In this scenario, you use the version of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent that is installed with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis to load data from the local installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring to IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis.
- 2. External IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent on a local server
- In this scenario, you use a version of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent that was not installed with IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis but that is installed on the same server as IBM Operations Analytics - Log Analysis.
- 3. External IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent on a remote server
- In this scenario, you use an installation of an external IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent to push data to IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent. To facilitate this integration, you modify the properties of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent.
- 4. Remote instance of the internal IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent
- In this scenario, you use a the remote installer tool to install a remote instance of the internal IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent.
The following table summarizes the different configurations required for the scenarios.
| Data streaming scenario | IBM Tivoli Monitoring Log File Agent type | Log file location | Required parameters in .conf file |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Internal and local | Local | Datasources |
| 2 | Internal and remote. You use the remote installer to create the remote instance. | Remote | Datasources, ServerLocation, ServerPort, BufEvtMaxSize. |
| 3 | Local and external | Local | Datasources |
| 4 | Remote and external | Remote | Datasources, SshAuthType, SshHostList, SshPassword, SshPort, SshPrivKeyfile, SshPubKeyfile, SshUserid. |