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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Use IBM Tivoli Monitoring web services
Numerous SOAP methods are included with IBM Tivoli Monitoring web services. These methods allow you to dynamically query and control IBM Tivoli Monitoring environments.
Use these SOAP methods, you can:
- Stop or start policies and situations
- Forward trapped messages from System Automation for Integrated Operations Management and display them on a Universal Message console
- Retrieve attribute data that you can display in charts or reports
- Open and close events
- Make real-time requests for data
- Issue SOAP requests as system commands in Tivoli Enterprise Portal
You can also use this product to test a request to ensure it works correctly. You can then create a policy that submits multiple requests for processing. In addition, you can generate daily operation summaries.
You can store retrieved data in the Tivoli Data Warehouse, as described in the historical data collection guide.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring web Services provides XML data rows. Use IBM's SOAP methods in combination with your own scripts to display the data in charts and tables.
SOAP query responses might appear to be ordered alphabetically, but some attributes do not follow alphabetical order. Automation tasks must examine content without regard to order.
- User IDs
At installation and configuration time, you are asked to supply user IDs for those who need access to monitoring server data. If no user IDs are supplied, all users are given permission to update data.
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IBM Tivoli Monitoring Web Services for the SOAP server