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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Manage historical data
Tivoli Management Services provides tools for collecting and saving data samples, displaying historical reports, uploading data to a relational database for long-term storage or converting short-term history to delimited flat files, and data aggregation and pruning. These topics describe the components used for historical data collection, how they store data, and best practices for configuring data collection and maintaining the database.
The "Tivoli Data Warehouse solutions" topics in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide describe how to install and configure a Tivoli Data Warehouse and its requisite agents, the warehouse proxy and the summarization and pruning agent.
The "Historical collection configuration" topics in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide describe how to configure historical data collections for attribute groups, how to get a report of historical data for a specified time range, how to apply historical baselines to a chart for trend analysis, and how to model situation thresholds using historical data.
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Command Reference describes the tacmd history commands that can be entered at the command line for configuring historical data collections, viewing their definitions, and exporting and importing the historical data collection definitions.
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- About historical data collection
- Historical data collection configuration
- Change the directory for short-term history files
- Performance impact of historical data requests
- Tivoli Data Warehouse and short-term history configuration
- Tivoli Data Warehouse range partition migrations
- Summarization and pruning configuration
- Error logging for stored data
- Collect Agent Operations Log history
- Conversion process for using delimited flat files
- Convert short-term history files to delimited flat files
- Use your historical data for analytic usage