IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Application Diagnostics, Version 7.1.0.1
IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for HTTP Servers - HTTP Agent
This chapter introduces the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent provided for ITM customers for HTTP Servers and explains how it can help you monitor and administer your systems that deploy the HTTP Servers.
ITCAM Agent for HTTP Servers places this agent into the context of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) family, a suite of products used to monitor a mixed-systems environment. With ITM, you can perform the following tasks:
- Establish performance thresholds
- Create situations, which are conditions monitor
- Create and send commands to systems in your managed enterprise using the Take Action feature; with Take Action commands you can, for instance, restart a process that is not functioning correctly or dynamically reconfigure your environment
- Create comprehensive reports about system conditions
- Monitor for alerts on the systems and platforms you are managing
- Trace the causes leading up to an alert
- Define your own queries, using the attributes provided with the ITCAM Agent for HTTP Servers, to monitor conditions of particular interest to you
Figure 1 displays a basic overview of how the components for ITM and ITCAM for Web Resources interact.Figure 1. Product architecture
- IBM Tivoli Monitoring components
- The Tivoli Enterprise Portal
- ITCAM Agent for HTTP Servers
- Situations for the agent
- Take Action commands
- Prerequisites to installation
- System and software prerequisites
- Where to begin
Parent topic:
Agent for HTTP Servers Installation Guide