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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Overview
Users rely on IBM Tivoli Monitoring products to monitor the performance and availability of their systems and applications. Because many of these systems run mission-critical applications, it is important that the operation and availability of these systems and applications are monitored continuously, so that prompt remedial action can be taken to fix problems, and potential or impending problems can be pretreated.
Therefore, it is necessary that the monitoring products are always available so that system administrators and other stakeholders can effectively monitor and manage their systems without interruption.
This document presents the options available to Tivoli Monitoring customers today for ensuring high availability of the Tivoli monitoring components in their environments.
Monitor functions and architecture introduces the concepts and terminology necessary to understand the overall monitoring architecture, and the monitoring features that are relevant to high availability of the monitoring functions.
Configure for high availability and disaster recovery provides a high-level description of the high availability options that can be used with IBM Tivoli Monitoring components.
The hot standby option describes the use of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring hot standby feature as another option for addressing high availability requirements.
The clustering of IBM Tivoli Monitoring components describes, in detail, the use of clustering as a technique for addressing IBM Tivoli Monitoring high-availability requirements. It also describes the supported IBM Tivoli Monitoring cluster configurations, provides an overview of the setup steps, and describes the expected behavior of the components that run in a clustered environment.
Create clusters with Tivoli Monitoring components in an HACMP environment provides information on installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring components in High Availability Cluster Multi-Processing (HACMP™) environments under the IBM AIX operating system.
Create clusters with monitoring components in a System Automation for Multiplatforms environment provides information on the implementation and design of high-availability IBM Tivoli Monitoring environments installed on Linux and AIX working with the IBM Tivoli System Automation for Multiplatforms product.
Create clusters with Tivoli Monitoring components in a Microsoft Cluster Server environment contains information on designing and implementing highly availably IBM Tivoli Monitoring environments by using Microsoft Windows Cluster Server (MSCS).