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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2


History data conversion overview

The following section describes the procedure of converting historical data tables to other file types for the purpose of being used by other software products.

In the UNIX environment, you use the itmcmd history script to activate and customize the conversion procedure used to turn selected Tivoli Monitoring short-term historical data tables into a form usable by other software products. The historical data that is collected is in a binary format and must be converted to ASCII to be used by third party products. Each short-term file is converted independently. The historical data collected by the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server can be at the host location of the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server or at the location of the reporting agent. Conversion can be run at any time, whether or not the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server or agents are active.

Conversion applies to all history data collected under the current install_dir associated with a single Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, whether the data was written by the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server or by a monitoring agent.

When you enter:

at the command-line, this output displays:

Certain parameters are required. Items separated with a | vertical bar denotes mutual exclusivity (for example, Kb|Mb means enter either Kb or Mb, not both.) Typically, parameters are entered on a single line at the UNIX command line.

See the Command Reference for all of the parameters used with this command.


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