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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Use Tivoli Common Reporting and monitoring agent reports
The Tivoli Common Reporting tool (TCR) is a reporting feature available to users of Tivoli products and is a component of Jazz for Service Management. Use Tivoli Common Reporting to gather, analyze, and report important trends in your managed environment in a consistent and integrated manner. A set of predefined reports is provided for the Tivoli Monitoring OS Agents and other products for monitoring individual, multiple, and enterprise resources.
To start using reports complete the following steps:
- Install Tivoli Common Reporting and its prerequisite software if it is not already in your environment.
- Install and configure the Tivoli Data Warehouse and warehouse agents: Warehouse Proxy Agent and Summarization and Pruning Agent. For information on setting up Tivoli Data Warehouse and the warehouse agents, see Tivoli Data Warehouse solutions.
- Configure historical collection. See Historical collection configuration in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide.
- Prepare the Tivoli Data Warehouse database for reporting data. See Maintaining the dimension tables in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.
- Install the monitoring agent reports. See Importing and running IBM Cognos reports in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.
If you upgraded Tivoli Common Reporting from version 2.x to version 3.1 or later and you want to migrate reports, including any custom reports or report scheduling, from the earlier version of Tivoli Common Reporting into the latest version, you must migrate the reporting data before installing the latest monitoring agent reports into Tivoli Common Reporting 3.1 or later. See Installing Jazz for Service Management for instructions on how to export report packages from the earlier version of Tivoli Common Reporting and import the packages into the latest version of Tivoli Common Reporting.
- Review the reports. See the monitoring agent user's guide for report content specifics.
Documentation for the Tivoli Common Reporting tool is located at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/index.jsp?topic=%2Fcom.ibm.psc.doc_1.1.0%2Finstall%2Ftcr_t_install.html.