Starting Internet Service Monitoring on Windows systems

To start Internet Service Monitoring on Windows, follow these steps.

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To start the Databridge and the Internet service monitors:
  1. Select Start > Control Panel, open the Administrative Tools group, then launch the Services console.
  2. From the list of services, select the service named NCO BRIDGE Internet Service Monitor, and then select Start from the context menu.
    Tip: The installer configures the Databridge service to start automatically, so it is normally not necessary to start it manually.
  3. From the list of services, select the service named NCO service-name Internet Service Monitor for each Internet service monitor that you want to run, then select Start from the context menu.
    Note: If you have deployed Internet service monitors on more than one host, you must start the monitor services on each host.
To start the Internet service monitoring agent:
  1. Select Start > Programs > IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Manage Tivoli Monitoring Services.
  2. From the list of components, select Internet Service Monitoring, and then select Start from the context menu.

To start the Tivoli Enterprise Portal desktop client:

  1. Select Start > Programs > IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Tivoli Enterprise Portal. Alternatively, if you created a desktop icon, click the icon. The Logon window is displayed.
  2. Enter your logon ID and password and click OK.

Alternatively, to start the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client:

  1. In the Address field in Internet Explorer, enter http://ip of Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server:1920. For example, http://192.168.60.22:1920.
  2. In the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Index, select IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal Web Client.
  3. In the Warning - Security dialog box, click Yes to indicate that you trust the applet distributed by IBM®. If you do not trust the applet you will not be able to use the browser client.
  4. Enter your user name and password and click OK.

The Internet Service Monitoring user configuration application is indicated in the toolbar of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal by its Internet Service Monitoring icon icon.

Note: When you start the user interface configuration, the Internet Service Monitoring Configuration Loading window is displayed. Closing this window while the interface configuration is still being loaded, does not stop the interface configuration from being launched. If you do want to stop using the configuration, wait until it is loaded.
Parent topic: Starting Internet Service Monitoring