IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions, Version 7.4.0.0

Setting up historical data collection

In order to view data in the history workspaces, you first need to configure historical data collection and distribute historical data collection attribute groups to your managed systems.

The history data collection settings apply to both short-term (up to 24 hrs) and long-term (indefinite) reporting. History data collection includes summarization and pruning settings for long-term data that is stored in the Tivoli Data Warehouse. Specify history data collection through the History Collection Configuration feature in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. (You must have Configure History permission to see and use this feature.)

Tip: No historical data is posted to the Tivoli Data Warehouse until you configure summarization and pruning intervals for that metric.

The following components of IBM Tivoli Monitoring should already be installed to support historical data collection:

Data warehouse located on a supported DB2, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL database.
Warehouse Proxy agent, used to collect the information that is stored in the data warehouse.
Warehouse Summarization and Pruning agent, used to perform aggregation and pruning functions on the data.

For more information about these components, see your IBM Tivoli Monitoring documentation.

Setting up historical data collection - general procedure

Use the following general procedure to configure your ITCAM for Transactions agents for historical data collection:

Log on to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
From the Tivoli Enterprise Portal menu bar, click to display the History Collection Configuration window, similar to the following example:
In the Monitored Applications list, select the collection setting that you want to configure, such as Robotic Response Time > RRT SubTransaction. Configure one collection setting for each historical attribute group.
On the Basic tab, in the Configuration section, set the collection settings:
1. In the Description field, enter a description for the collection setting.
2. In the Collection Interval field, leave the default collection interval of 5 minutes.
3. In the Collection Location field, leave the collection location as the agent (TEMA)
4. In the Warehouse Interval field, set the warehouse interval to 1 hour.
Tip: The name of the binary history file for the selected attribute group is displayed in the information bar, for example KT6_T6APPCS.
On the Distribution tab, leave the default to collect historical data on the agent (Managed System (Agent)) and select the managed systems to which you want to distribute the historical data collection.
Click Apply to save your distribution changes. The icon for the collection setting name in the Monitored Applications list changes to green. A gray icon indicates that the attribute group for that historical data collection has not yet been distributed to a managed system.
In the Monitored Applications list, select the component for which you want to set summarization and pruning, such as Robotic Response Time.
In the Select Attribute Groups pane, select an attribute group to configure for warehousing.
In the Summarization section of the Configuration controls pane, set how often you want a summary of the data. You can set multiple intervals which should match the Pruning intervals.
In the Pruning section of the Configuration controls pane, set how often you want the data purged. You can set multiple intervals which should match the summarization intervals
Click Apply.
Repeat steps 3-11 for each agent group you want to configure.

Tip: Ensure that if you set summarization and pruning for an attribute group, you also configure a collection setting to distribute that attribute group to a managed system.

Last updated: September 2014