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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
New in Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
The following enhancements to the Tivoli Management Services components affect the system administrator for Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2.
- Use analytics on your historical data
- You can now run external applications against your historical data, such as an analytic engine, to be alerted and help predict potential problems quickly. You must configure your Warehouse Proxy agent and Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent to store historical data in comma-separated (CSV) files that can be processed by an analytic engine. See Use your historical data for analytic usage.
- Update the EIF configuration file and EIF event mapping file in the configuration load list
- You can now use the Activate="YES" variable to replace the existing configuration file with a new configuration file that is downloaded from a central configuration server. You can use this variable to replace the EIF configuration file (EIFCNFG), and EIF event mapping file (EIFMAP) in the configuration load list. See Configuration load list XML specification.
- Delete all existing private situations and add new private situations
- In the <PRIVATECONFIGURATION> element, you can use the REFRESH= variable to stop and delete all existing private situations and then add only the newly inputted private situations. See Private situation XML specification.
- Configure summarization and pruning for managed system groups
- You can now configure summarization and pruning differently for managed system groups. Previously, it was only possible to configure summarization and pruning for a given attribute group, so summarization and pruning had to be global. This new feature allows you to have configurations that address specific business requirements, such as development and test machines that might need to be monitored with smaller retention settings than production systems. See Configure summarization and pruning for managed system groups.
- Create and maintain the dimension tables required for Tivoli Common Reporting and IBM Tivoli Monitoring reports
- Use the Summarization and Pruning agent
In IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3, you had to use the Schema Publication Tool to create the dimension tables in the Tivoli Data Warehouse. Now you can configure the Summarization and Pruning agent to create and maintain the dimension tables. See Configure the Summarization and Pruning agent to create and maintain the dimension tables.
- Use the Schema Publication Tool
You can use the SQL scripts created by the Schema Publication Tool to create both the time dimension tables and the resource dimension tables, or you can create just the time dimension tables, or just the resource dimension tables. Each set of tables can be created using a different connection to the Tivoli Data Warehouse. See the Create the dimension tables using the Schema Publication Tool.
- Enable NIST SP800-131a encryption
- The National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST) Special Publications (SP) 800-131a standard strengthens algorithms and increases the key lengths to improve security. To enable SP800-131a encryption, see Enable SP800-131a for IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
- Set up load balancing for a high availability dashboard environment
- To create a high availability dashboard environment, you can use an HTTP server configured for load balancing between your dashboard users and a cluster of Dashboard Application Services Hub nodes, and also between Dashboard Application Services Hub nodes and multiple Tivoli Enterprise Portal Servers. See Set up load balancing for a high availability dashboard environment.
- Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers new tabs and historical reporting
- To broaden the Server Dashboards reporting features, several tabs have been added to the managed system dashboard: Properties, CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network. The CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network tabs have a new time selector bar for changing from real time to showing historical data; the situation event results dashboard Details tab has a time selector bar for setting a time range of data samples before or after the event time.
- For more information, click the "Learn more" link from the Server Dashboards or see the Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers Reference on IBM Service Management Connect > Application Performance Management.
- Agent autonomy and centralized configuration information reorganization
- The agent autonomy and centralized configuration information previously appeared in separate chapters. This information is now consolidated into the Agent-based services chapter.
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