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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Monthly health checks
Use the following list to perform monthly health checks.
Tasks
- Include all of the checks from the daily and weekly item checklist.
- If you are collecting historical data and storing it in the warehouse make sure your monthly summarization is correct. Validate this by running reports from the portal client to ensure you have the correct monthly summarized data.
- Check the list of managed systems deployed in the Tivoli Monitoring environment. Take note of their maintenance levels. Check with IBM Software Support or the IBM account representative to see if new fix packs and interim fixes are available. If so, determine what has been fixed so you can decide if you want to deploy the patches to your environment or just wait until the next major fix pack.
- Once again check your situation thresholds to make sure you don’t have false positive events. In large user environments there are many factors that can have an affect on how a system performs. The change in performance in any system can change the way Tivoli Monitoring reports status for any given system. Make sure the events active in Tivoli Monitoring are real.
- Take inventory of the systems being managed by Tivoli Monitoring. There might be a need to deploy additional agents on new systems or systems where new applications have been added.
- Assess the capacity of the infrastructure systems for resource CPU, memory and disk utilization to continually plan for overall workload balancing. As new versions of applications are introduced into the environment, their affect on resources typically change. This ongoing effort helps ensure the correct hardware is in place. Confirm the number of agents connected to each remote monitoring server to ensure that you have not exceeded the recommended limit of 1500 agents.
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Maintaining an efficient monitoring environment