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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

Configure historical data collection for the Performance Analyzer warehouse agent

You must configure the historical data collection for Tivoli Performance Analyzer to enable trend calculation visualization in the workspaces and reports.


To configure historical data collection for the Performance Analyzer warehouse agent:

  1. Start Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

  2. In the portal toolbar, select Edit > History Configuration. The History Collection Configuration window is displayed.

  3. To obtain the calculation data, configure the historical data collection for each of your operating system agents, and for your domains by referring to the attribute groups that must be configured. Table 1 shows products and their associated attribute groups.


    Attribute groups that must be configured

    Product Attribute groups
    Operating systems Windows OS

    • Network Interface (Superseded)

    • Logical Disk

    • Memory (Superseded)

    • Processor

    • System

    Linux

    • Linux CPU Averages (Superseded)

    • Linux Disk (Superseded)

    • Linux Network (Superseded)

    • Linux System Statistics (Superseded)

    • Linux VM Stats (Superseded)

    UNIX OS

    • Disk

    • Network

    • System

    DB2

    • Database (Superseded)

    • System Overview (Superseded)

    • Tablespace (Superseded)

    Oracle

    • Oracle Cache Totals

    • Oracle Database

    • Oracle Library Cache Usage

    • Oracle Server

    • Oracle Session Summary

    • Oracle Statistics Summary

    • Oracle Tablespaces

    ITCAM for RT Client response time

    • CRT Application Status

    • CRT Server Status

    • CRT SubTransaction Status

    • CRT Transaction Status

    Robotic response time

    • RRT Application Status

    • RRT Robotic Playback Status

    • RRT SubTransaction Status

    • RRT Transaction Status

    Web response time

    • WRT Application Status

    • WRT Client Status

    • WRT Server Status

    • WRT SSL Alert Current Status

    • WRT SubTransaction Status

    • WRT TCP Status

    • WRT Transaction Status

    System VIOS Premium

    • KVA LOGICAL PARTITION

    • KVA DISKS

    • KVA NETWORK ADAPTERS RATES

    AIX Premium

    • KPX LOGICAL PARTITION

    VMware  

    • KVM SERVER

    • KVM SERVER NETWORK

    • KVM VM CPU

    • KVM VM PARTITION

    • KVM VM NETWORK

    • KVM VM MEMORY

    For each agent, do the following steps:

    1. In the navigation pane, right-click the product whose agent you want to configure, and select Create new collection settings. The Create New Collection Settings window opens.

    2. Select an attribute group for that agent, as listed in Table 1, and click OK.

    3. In the Basic tab, specify the following settings:

      • In the Collection Interval field, set the polling interval, for example to 1 hour.

      • In the Warehouse Interval field, set the frequency at which data is written to the database.

    4. In the Distribution tab, specify for which nodes the data should be collected and click OK.

    5. Select the product again, and set its Summarization interval to at least Hourly and Daily. You can also select additional summarization intervals.

    6. Set the Pruning interval to what is most appropriate for your system, and click OK.

    7. Repeat the preceding steps for each agent support agent in your environment. Use collection, summarization, and pruning values that are appropriate to your system. You have now completed configuring the support agents for your environment.

  4. Next, configure the historical data collection for Performance Analyzer Warehouse Agent to enable trend calculation visualization on the workspaces and reports:

    1. In the navigation pane, click Performance Analyzer Warehouse Agent.

    2. Select the first attribute group for the agent.

    3. In the Basic tab, specify the following settings:

      • In the Collection Interval field, set the polling interval to 1 hour for System Health and Disk Health attribute groups and to 1 day for other attribute groups.

      • In the Warehouse Interval field, set the interval to 1 day.

    4. In the Distribution tab, start collection for the AFF_PERF_ANALYZER_WHSE_AGENT group.

    5. Repeat steps c and d for all attribute groups.

    6. Select the Performance Analyzer Warehouse Agent application and set Pruning for detailed data for all attribute groups to 1 day.

    7. Finally, click Close when you have completed configuring the historical data collection for the agents.


Results

  1. The out-of-the-box OS domain uses 32-bit attribute groups only – the metrics used in this domain are expressed in units that never exceed maximum value available for 32-bit numbers. There is no additional value in switching OS domain tasks, workspaces, and reports to use 64-bit attribute groups.

  2. For step 4: instead of using History Collection Configuration dialog in Tivoli Enterprise Portal to set up warehousing and pruning of Tivoli Performance Analyzer attribute groups, it is possible to achieve the same with the tacmd command. Sample scripts to automate this task can be found on the installation media under the scripts/<domain_name> directory. For example, the OS domain scripts are: 

      scripts/os/histcoll_os.sh
or scripts/os/histcoll_os.bat


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Configure IBM Tivoli Monitoring components

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