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Overview of the agent

The IBM Tivoli Monitoring: AIX Premium Agent (product code PX) provides you with the capability to monitor AIX.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring is the base software for the AIX Premium agent. The AIX Premium agent monitors the availability, health, and performance of key AIX system resources.


IBM Tivoli Monitoring

IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides a way to monitor the availability and performance of all the systems in the enterprise from one or several designated workstations. It also provides useful historical data that you can use to track trends and to troubleshoot system problems.

You can use IBM Tivoli Monitoring to achieve the following tasks:

The Tivoli Enterprise Portal is the interface for IBM Tivoli Monitoring products. You can use the consolidated view of your environment as seen in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to monitor and resolve performance issues throughout the enterprise.

See the IBM Tivoli Monitoring publications listed in Prerequisite publications for complete information about IBM Tivoli Monitoring and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.


Functions of the monitoring agent

AIX Availability, Health, and Performance Resource Monitoring

Monitors the availability, health, and performance of key AIX system resources: LPAR configurations, CPU, memory, storage, network, printers, NIM, and Workload Partitions (WPARS).


System p monitoring agents

The four System p monitoring agents monitor the PowerVM environment.
Figure 1 shows the four System p monitoring agents in the PowerVM environment:

Each agent operates independently of each other and together, they provide a complete PowerVM monitoring offering.

Figure 1. System p agents



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