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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub and dashboard applications
The Dashboard Application Services Hub is a web-based console component that provides common task navigation, aggregation of data from multiple products into a single view, and message passing between views from different products. The Dashboard Application Services Hub has a core set of components that provide such administrative essentials as network security.
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboard data provider retrieves monitoring agent data for display in the Dashboard Application Services Hub. The dashboard data provider is optionally enabled during the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server configuration. With the dashboard data provider enabled, Dashboard Application Services Hub users can retrieve read-only data from the hub monitoring server and monitoring agent for display in monitoring dashboards such as...
- IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers
- IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for VMware
- IBM Infrastructure Management Capacity Planner for VMware
- IBM Infrastructure Management Capacity Planner for PowerVM
- custom dashboards
The VM applications are provided with the 7.2 release or later of IBM SmartCloud Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments.)
IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers is provided with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and allows Dashboard Application Services Hub users to display events for monitoring agents, managed system groups, and key Linux OS agent, UNIX OS agent, and Windows OS agent health metrics.
Because monitoring dashboard users must be authenticated by Dashboard Application Services Hub and by the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, you should configure each of these servers to use the same LDAP user repository for authentication and also enable single sign-on.
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Components of the monitoring architecture