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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2


Dashboard Application Services Hub with dashboard applications and Authorization Policy Server

Dashboard Application Services Hub is a Jazz for Service Management web-based systems management integration platform with the following features:

The Dashboard Application Services Hub sends requests to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboard data provider component in the portal server to retrieve agent data for display in the monitoring dashboards such as the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers or in custom dashboards.

The Authorization Policy Server is installed with Dashboard Application Services Hub and allows you to define roles and permissions, which control the access that dashboard users have to managed systems and managed system groups displayed in monitoring dashboards. There is not a graphical user interface for the Authorization Policy Server. Instead administrators use the tivcmd CLI to create and work with roles and permissions that are centrally managed by the Authorization Policy Server. The CLI uses HTTP or HTTPS to communicate with the Authorization Policy Server.

The portal server also sends HTTP or HTTPS requests to the Authorization Policy Server application to retrieve updated authorization policies at a configured interval.

You can install an HTTP server for load balancing across a cluster of Dashboard Application Services Hubs. However, the Authorization Policy Server is not currently supported for load balancing in this release.

If you are using Dashboard Application Services Hub in an IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment with multiple portal servers, you can only use one of the portal servers to retrieve data for monitoring dashboards for this release. Enable the dashboard data provider in one of the portal servers and configure a data provider connection from Dashboard Application Services Hub to this portal server.

See Installing Jazz for Service Management for additional considerations on setting up your reporting environment: http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.psc.doc_1.1.0/install/psc_c_install.html.


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