IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

Starting data collection

You can start collection of historical data for attribute groups on selected managed systems and whenever you have managed systems that you want to add.

Before you begin

Your user ID must have Configure History permission to open the History Collection Configuration window. If you do not have this permission, you will not see the menu item or tool for historical configuration.

About this task

After you distribute the collection definitions to managed systems, data collection begins automatically. If data collection has been stopped for any of the managed systems in the distribution, complete these steps to resume collection. Complete these steps also if you want add new managed systems to the distribution.

Procedure

Click History Configuration to open the History Collection Configuration window.
Click the monitored application (agent type).
In the expanded branch, click the undistributed or distributed historical collection that you want to start on managed systems.
Assign managed systems to the collection or add the collection to a historical configuration group to use its distribution. See Distributing a historical collection for details.
To save the revised distribution and begin data collection on the managed systems that you added, click Apply to keep the window open or OK to close it.

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