Tivoli Monitoring

• Enables users to leverage pre-packaged system administration expertise out of the box, eliminating the need to perform extensive research and manual configuration of the solution
• Allows users to leverage their own best practices knowledge to create new Resource Models with a simple wizard-driven solution
• Provides a health console accessed by a web browser or Java-based graphical user interface to view both real-time and recent historical data for any server
• Includes a simple installation program
• Provides one common base solution for monitoring all critical software on servers - applications, databases, and middleware

What's New for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2?

IBM Tivoli® Monitoring V6.2 builds on the robust monitoring capabilities of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1, providing improved ease of use, enhanced views, and tighter integration with other Tivoli products for better service management. The major enhancements of this release include:

• Tivoli Enterprise™ Portal user authentication, via LDAP, to reduce implementation and administration work.
• Introduction of Agent Builder that facilitates creation of custom monitors in a matter of minutes.
• Improved performance and scalability.
• Enhanced monitoring of System p™ AIX® environments, including mapping of virtual resources to physical resources, created by the AIX development team.
• Support of regular expressions for log file monitoring, using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Universal Agent.
• Better visualization with improved chart views, IBM Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure topology view enhancements, and support for a full-function browser within a workspace.
• Common Event Viewer, which integrates IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Enterprise.
• Console®, and IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus events into a single console.
• Tools to help automate the migration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5 resource models to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 situations.

This release includes updates to several products in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring family. The updated products are:

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Applications
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases

IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides monitoring for essential system resources, to detect bottlenecks and potential problems, and to automatically recover from critical situations. Tivoli Monitoring saves system administrators from manually scanning through extensive performance data before problems can be solved. Using industry best-practices, Tivoli Monitoring can provide immediate value to the enterprise.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring also provides the foundation for additional automated Best Practices via Proactive Analysis Components (PACs) for managing business critical hardware and software including middleware, applications, and databases.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option, an optional feature for IBM Tivoli Monitoring, provides an invaluable set of pre-configured, out-of-the-box automated best practices that proactively manage the directory by monitoring essential resources and detecting potential problems. IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option also provides seamless integration with other Tivoli Performance and Availability solutions.

Date sheet

Monitor and manage critical resources and metrics across disparate platforms from a single console

Get Adobe@ Reader@

IBM Tivoli Monitoring is an enterprise-class, easy-to-use solution that optimizes the performance and availability of your entire IT infrastructure. Through a single customizable workspace portal, you can proactively manage the health and availability of your IT infrastructure, end-to-end, including operating systems, databases and servers, across distributed and host environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring detects bottlenecks and potential problems in essential system resources and helps you automatically recover from critical situations to ensure your business critical applications are up and running.

Built on a lightweight, highly scalable architecture, IBM Tivoli Monitoring is quickly deployed and easily managed for quick time to value and lower cost of ownership. Simple and centralized control, enhanced visualization of information, ease of use and historical and real time reporting allow users to quickly access the information they need, in customizable formats, to rapidly identify, diagnose and resolve situations.

By linking IT services to processes, data, skills and tools through its single user workspace, IBM Tivoli Monitoring allows users to view consistent data across technology domains and align IT services with business goals to deliver immediate value. IBM Tivoli Monitoring, when combined with IBM Tivoli’s composite application, event, network and service level management solutions, offers complete, integrated availability management to ensure your IT resources and staff are operating efficiently and effectively, in alignment with your business needs and priorities.