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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Tivoli Management Services
IBM Tivoli Monitoring products are based on a set of common service components, referred to collectively as Tivoli Management Services. that provide...
- security
- data transfer and storage
- notification mechanisms
- user interface presentation
- communication services
...in an agent-server-client architecture.
These services are common to many product suites such as IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE mainframe monitoring and IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager.
After installing and configuring Tivoli Management Services, and the products that rely on them, consult this guide to apply further customization in a distributed environment. It also has general administrative information for the managed systems that share these common services. Product-specific administrative information is given in the guides for the individual products.
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