IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

New in this release

The following additions were made to IBM Tivoli Monitoring in this V6.3 Fix Pack 2 release:

Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration Performance Monitoring (OSLC-PM) service provider features are supported for Hot-Standby configuration

You can configure the OSLC-PM service provider for a Hub monitoring server that is enabled for Hot Standby. To do this, specify a value for the acting hub alias when you configure the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server.

See Install Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server.

Enable IP version 6 (IPv6) communication at installation

You can configure Tivoli Monitoring components for IPv6 communication at installation. In order to use IPv6 with Tivoli Monitoring components, you must ensure your operating system is set up and configured for IPv6.

See Install IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

Prerequisite Scanner for Tivoli Monitoring components

The integrated Prerequisite Scanner allows you to quickly identify any missing prerequisites before you install or upgrade to a new version of IBM Tivoli Monitoring. An initial scan result is displayed, as well as the path to the detailed prerequisite scanning result file for each component. See Prerequisite Scanner for Tivoli Monitoring components.

Create and maintain the dimension tables required for Tivoli Common Reporting and IBM Tivoli Monitoring reports

64-bit Summarization and Pruning Agent is available for 64-bit Windows machines

Both 64-bit and 32-bit versions of the Summarization and Pruning Agent are available.

Use analytics on your historical data

You can now use external applications on 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. 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.

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 Server. See Set up load balancing for a high availability dashboard environment.

Documentation available on Service Management Connect

Documentation is now available in the Files section of the Application Performance Management community.

The following base documentation is now available on Service Management Connect:

The agent documentation is now provided in the following ways on Service Management Connect:

Documentation available on the Information Center

For detailed new in this release information for each of the updated guides in this release, see the following links:


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