Installing Response Time monitoring agents and related software

To display monitoring data in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, install the Response Time monitoring agent and the associated application support files.

The Robotic Response Time Agent (T6) takes scripts, for example Rational Performance Tester scripts and monitors their response times whilst playing them back. In this example, the scripts are initially created within Rational Performance Tester and then exported to the Application Management Console (T3) agent. The Application Management Console (T3) agent stores them in a depot. They are available for Robotic Response Time (T6) agent playback from here. The depot is a directory structure, on Windows it is underc:/IBM/ITM/kt1depot/T3

There are two parts to installing the Response Time monitoring agent:
  • Install the Response Time monitoring agent
  • Install application support files for IBM Tivoli monitoring

Application Support Files

To ensure the Response Time monitoring agent works within your Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure, application support files must be distributed to the Tivoli Monitoring components. The application support files are provided with the installation package. The application support files provide agent-specific information for the:
  1. Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
  2. Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
  3. Tivoli Enterprise Portal desktop client

You can install the Response Time monitoring agent either on a computer by itself or on a computer where IBM Tivoli Monitoring is already installed.

If you install the Response Time monitoring agent on a computer where IBM Tivoli Monitoring is already installed, you can choose during the installation to install the application support files.

If you install the Response Time monitoring agent on a computer where IBM Tivoli Monitoring is not installed, you will need to either
  • After you install the Response Time agent, manually install the application support files.
  • Before you install the Response Time agent, enable SDA. When the Response Time agent is started, it connects to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server or Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, and automatically pulls the support files from the computer on which the agent is installed and updates the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server or Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. For more information on how to enable SDA, see Using self-describing agents (SDA).
For more information, see Install application support for Linux and UNIX, Install application support for Windows systems
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