IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

Changing the distribution method

Change the distribution method from Managing System (TEMS) to Managed System (Agent) to enable the historical collection definition to be added to a historical object group.

About this task

If you have upgraded to Tivoli Management Services Version 6.2.2 from a previous version, you will see a historical collection for each attribute group that was configured, and the distribution method will be as it was before: Managing System (TEMS). Complete these steps if you want to change the distribution method for each historical collection to Managed System (Agent).

If, instead, you want to change the distribution method from Managed System to Managing System, the procedure is the same except that it can be more involved if an entry in the Start collection on list is disabled. A disabled entry means that it was added to the distribution as part of a historical configuration object group. If any of the collection belongs to one or more historical groups, you must remove it from any historical group that it belongs to that has a distribution before you can remove it from the Start collection on list. The topic on "Stopping data collection" has instructions for removing managed systems from the distribution of a historical object group.

Procedure

If the History Collection Configuration window is not open, click History Configuration, click the Monitored Application, then click the historical collection name to open the definition.
Click the Distribution tab.
Select all entries in the Start collection on list, and move them to the Available list. After clicking the first entry, you can Shift+click the last entry to select all of them.
Click Apply.

What to do next

You can now assign managed systems to the distribution here or add the historical definition to a historical object group to use the distribution of the group.

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