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Discovery Library Adapter for the AIX Premium agent
The Tivoli Management Services Discovery Library Adapter (DLA) discovers resources and relationships, and creates a Discovery Library Book file for the agent.
About the DLA
The Tivoli Management Services DLA discovers resources and relationships and creates a Discovery Library Book file. The discovery book follows the Discovery Library IDML schema and is used to populate the IBM Tivoli Change and Configuration Management Database and IBM Tivoli Business Service Managerproducts. The Tivoli Management Services DLA discovers the operating system, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent that is running on this LPAR, and the relationship of the agent with the CEC system that it virtualizes. For all AIX systems that are active and online at the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, information is included in the discovery book for those resources. The Tivoli Management Services DLA discovers active resources. It is run on demand and can be run periodically to discover resources that were not active during previous discoveries.
The DLA discovers AIX Premium agent components.
More information about DLAs
The following sources contain additional information about using the DLA program with all monitoring agents:
- The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide contains information about using the Tivoli Management Services Discovery Library Adapter.
- For information about using a DLA with Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), see the TADDM Information Center (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v10r1/topic/com.ibm.taddm.doc_7.2/welcome_page/welcome.html).
- For information about using a DLA with the Tivoli Business Service Manager product, see the Tivoli Business Service Manager Information Center (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.tivoli.itbsm.doc/customization/bsms_dscc_discoverylibraryeventmapping.html).
Prerequisites
If you are using the DLA with Tivoli Business Service Manager and both the AIX Premium agent and AIX OS agent are running on the same system, you must have Tivoli Business Service Manager V4.2.1 Fix Pack 2 installed.
- DLA data model class types represented in CDM
The source application data objects map to classes in the Common Data Model (CDM) for the AIX Premium agent.
- DLA data model classes for the AIX Premium agent
Each agent that uses the Discovery Library Adapter has DLA data model classes that are defined for the agent.