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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2


Integrate event management systems

If you are using either Netcool/OMNIbus or Tivoli Enterprise Console in addition to IBM Tivoli Monitoring to manage events in the enterprise, you can integrate and manage events from a single console. You can integrate event management by forwarding events reported by Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents to either event system for correlation and management - changes in event status made on the event system are reflected back to the hub monitoring server that forwarded them. Or you can enable events reported by a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent to be passed directly to OMNIbus for processing, thereby bypassing the monitoring server entirely.

To enable forwarding of situation events, the Netcool/OMNIbus (the event server) or Tivoli Enterprise Console server must be configured to receive the events, a situation update forwarding process must be installed on the event server, situation forwarding must be enabled on either the hub monitoring server or the monitoring agent, and a default event integration facility (EIF) destination must be defined.

Use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you can define monitoring specifications, called situations, to detect the occurrence of specific conditions on managed systems. When conditions that match the specifications are detected by monitoring agents, events are reported to the monitoring servers. In environments where Netcool/OMNIbus or Tivoli Enterprise Console are also being used for event management, hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Servers or the agents themselves can be configured to forward these situation events to either of these event servers for further correlation and management. Changes in the status of events made on the event server are reported back to the forwarding monitoring server so that events are synchronized on the two event management systems.

The two chapters that follow this section provide instructions for implementing event integration by forwarding situation events to Netcool/OMNIbus and Tivoli Enterprise Console.

In addition you can view events within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. The Common Event Console is a Tivoli Enterprise Portal view that provides an integrated display of events from multiple event systems. The Common Event Console presents normalized events from the supported event systems in a single table. By default, the view displays events reported to a hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server by Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents (situation events); it can also be configured to present events from Netcool/OMNIbus and Tivoli Enterprise Console event systems.

A common event connector (frequently called simply a connector) enables the integrated display of events from an event system in the Common Event Console. The connector retrieves event data from a supported event system and sends user-initiated actions to be run in that event system. To have the events from a specific event system displayed in the Common Event Console, you must configure a connector for that event system. Because the connector for Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents is configured when you install the portal, the Common Event Console includes all situation events by default. However, to have Netcool/OMNIbus or Tivoli Enterprise Console events included in the Common Event Console, you must configure a connector for each of these event systems after you install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. You might also want to change some of the configuration values for the default connector. For information on configuring the display of events from Netcool/OMNIbus and Tivoli Enterprise Console, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.

After situation forwarding is enabled, by default all situation events are forwarded to the specified event server. However, you can customize which situation events are forwarded and to which event server. For information on specifying which situation events to forward, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal online help and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide.

Event integration scenarios: The scenarios in the next two chapters illustrate how event integration can be implemented with either Netcool/OMNIbus or Tivoli Enterprise Console by forwarding situation events. To implement these scenarios, hub monitoring servers must be configured to forward events to at least one event server, and the event server must be configured to interpret the events and send updates to the originating monitoring server. A special event-synchronization component, the Situation Update Forwarder, must be installed on the event server. You can find complete instructions for implementing these scenarios in Set up event forwarding to Netcool/OMNIbus and Set up event forwarding to Tivoli Enterprise Console.

The System Monitor Agent, allows you to send OS monitoring data directly to Netcool/OMNIbus without first passing the data to a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. In this way these agents can run in agent-only environments that lack the standard Tivoli Monitoring servers (the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server). These monitoring agents, which run on Windows and on Linux/UNIX, effectively replace the OMNIbus System Service Monitors for monitoring of desktop operating systems. Monitor your operating system via a System Monitor Agent provides complete information on installing, configuring, and uninstalling a System Monitor Agent on either Windows or Linux.

As of fix pack 2 for V6.2.2, for sites running x86_64 CPUs, both 32-bit and 64-bit Windows environments (Windows 2003, Vista, 2008) are supported for the System Monitor Agents. An enhancement provided with the first fix pack for version 6.2.2 enables the System Monitor Agents can send event data directly to OMNIbus, thus making a monitoring server unnecessary even for event processing.

See Event forwarding from autonomous agents.

For a complete list of operating systems that are supported for IBM Tivoli Monitoring components, see Supported operating systems. For event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus software prerequisites, see Required software for event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus.


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