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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Historical data collection
In addition to the real-time reports offered by Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces, you can configure historical data collection to store the data being collected by your monitoring agents for historical reports and situations. You can specify the following:
- Attribute groups for historical data collection
- Data collection interval.
- Data warehousing intervals if you choose to write data to the Tivoli Data Warehouse
- How data samples are grouped for pruning from the Tivoli Data Warehouse
- Prune schedule of warehoused data.
- Storage location for the short-term history files before they are sent to the data warehouse. Data samples can be stored at the monitoring agent or on the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.
To ensure that data samplings are saved to populate your predefined historical workspaces, first configure and start historical data collection. Real-time workspaces are available whether you start historical collection or not.
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