Autonomous agent support

Tivoli Management Services V6.2.3 (and higher) allows stand-alone monitoring agents (those that are configured in their own address spaces) to run in autonomous mode (without communicating directly with a monitoring server). An autonomous agent can emit Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps and Event Integration Facility (EIF) events directly to an event server for agent-specific situations (but not for enterprise situations). Autonomous agents can be advantageous in environments where disk space or transmission bandwidth is in short supply.

An autonomous agent requires the DSEVT DDNAME in the monitoring agent started task in rhilev.rte.RKANSAMU. This DDNAME points to the rvhilev.rte.RKDSEVT data set.

The IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Installation and Setup Guide provides instructions for configuring IBM® Tivoli® Netcool®/OMNIbus ObjectServers to receive the events. For information on specifying which situation events to forward, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal online help and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide. For detailed information about managing autonomous agents, see Agent autonomy in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Administrator's Guide.