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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Configure your warehouse agents
Now that you have your first 50 agents up and running smoothly, it is time to configure your Warehouse Proxy Agent and Summarization and Pruning Agent.
There are the two major components to configuring your warehousing.
- First, configure the two agents and specify all of the steps necessary for the agents to communicate with the database server. These steps are done through the configuration panels that appear when you reconfigure the agents. Follow the steps in the install guide when performing this configuration. Choose the summarization and shift options that you chose during the planning phase.
- The second aspect to warehousing is to decide which attribute groups you are going to collect and at what intervals. Always use the Warehouse load projection spreadsheet before enabling additional historical collection. Thus, ensuring that you do not overload your warehouse environment. Start slowly and incrementally add attribute groups to your historical collection. This allows you to confirm that everything is working properly before you add more data to your warehouse.
Enable one attribute group at a time and verify that the data is being collected, summarized and pruned properly. At this point, you can also see how many rows are getting written per data collection interval for the attribute group, by examining the entries in the WAREHOUSELOG table. The number rows written per interval is an important input parameter for the Warehouse load projection spreadsheet. If the WAREHOUSELOG is disabled, you can look at the self monitoring Warehouse Proxy Agent workspace. The workspace displays the top ten nodes with the greatest number of exports since the Warehouse Proxy Agent started, and the ten most recent errors in the last 24 hours.
At this point, install the warehouse monitoring solution that is available at the IBM Integrated Service Management Library by searching for "Data Warehouse DB activity" or navigation code "1TW10TM1X".
In addition, you must create a critical situation that monitors both your Warehouse Proxy Agent and Summarization and Pruning Agent to ensure that they are running. If they are not running, the situation must run a Take Action to automatically restart those agents.
When configuring and starting your Summarization and Pruning Agent, do not forget to set the KSY_MAX_WORKER_THREADS to the appropriate number for your environment. See Locating and sizing the Summarization and Pruning Agent for recommendations on the number of worker threads.
If you have configured some or all of your monitoring agents to run autonomously, you might want to configure the Warehouse Proxy and Summarization and Pruning agents to run autonomously as well. See Run the warehouse agents autonomously for more information.
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Deployment phase