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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

New in Version 6.3

The following sections describe changes in this release that affect installation or configuration.

For a complete list of new product features, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.

Jazz for Service Management

Jazz for Service Management brings together the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC) community's open specifications for linking data, shared administrative services, dashboard and reporting services. Through these facets, Jazz for Service Management accelerates deployment, integration, and workflow automation across IBM, partner, and third-party tools.

Jazz for Service Management has a number of integration services: Administration, Registry, IBM Tivoli Common Reporting, Security, and IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub. These integration services provide key features including:

  • Shared data repository for products integrating through Jazz for Service Management.

  • Consistent UI experience through Dashboard Application Services Hub in Jazz for Service Management.

  • Simplified administration of products and solutions integrating through Jazz for Service Management.

  • Ad hoc, self-service reporting through Tivoli Common Reporting in Jazz for Service Management.

For more information about Jazz for Service Management, go to the Jazz for Service Management Information Center.

IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers running on the Dashboard Application Services Hub V3.1 or later

With the IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboard data provider enabled, Dashboard Application Services Hub users can retrieve managed system groups and events for all monitoring agents and agent health metrics for Linux OS agent, UNIX OS agent, and Windows OS agent using the Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers application. This application is installed and configured into Dashboard Application Services Hub V3.1 or later using IBM Installation Manager. See Install the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers and Requirements for a dashboard environment.

Dashboard data provider configuration option for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server

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 and configured, Dashboard Application Services Hub users can retrieve read-only data from the hub monitoring server and monitoring agents for display in monitoring dashboards. Examples of such dashboards are...

  • 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

Dashboard data provider is the new name for the ITM REST service. In IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3, the dashboard data provider has been enhanced to improve performance for monitoring dashboards. See "Creating a connection to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboard data provider" in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.

Tivoli Authorization Policy Server

The Tivoli Authorization Policy Server feature provides you with greater access control capabilities. You can protect your resources from unauthorized access by users of monitoring dashboards in the IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub. IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 with the Authorization Policy Server feature enabled provides the following capabilities:

  • To restrict the access for dashboard users to Managed System Groups and to individual agent managed systems.

  • The ability to grant role-based access control to users and user groups, making access control easier and safer.

To implement the feature, install IBM Installation Manager packages for the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server and the tivcmd CLI for Authorization Policy. The Authorization Policy Server is installed with your Dashboard Application Services Hub. The command-line interface is installed on the computers that are used by the administrators who are creating authorization policies. After successful installation of these two packages, you can execute various CLI commands as required to create roles, grant permissions, exclude permissions, and so on. After you have created roles and permissions, you enable authorization policy enforcement in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server configuration. See Install the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server and tivcmd Command-Line Interface for Authorization Policy and Requirements for a dashboard environment.

Installation Launchpad and IBM Installation Manager

IBM Installation Manager is a tool that is designed to install and maintain your software packages. You can use IBM Installation Manager to install the following IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 components:

  • Tivoli Authorization Policy Server

  • tivcmd CLI for Authorization Policy

  • IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers

Wizards guide you through the steps to install, modify, update, roll back, or uninstall the IBM products. Use Installation Manager to install software packages on your local machine, or with the IBM Packaging Utility to install software for an enterprise from a network accessible repository. Installation Manager is installed along with the new IBM Tivoli Monitoring components, if it is not already installed on your machine.

For more information about IBM Installation Manager and the IBM Packaging Utility, go to http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r6/index.jsp.

To install the Authorization Policy Server, tivcmd CLI, or IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers from the installation media, you can use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad application. The installation launchpad automatically installs, configures, and starts IBM Installation Manager. Once started, you can use IBM Installation Manager to install and configure the components onto the local system. This approach assumes that you have already installed the IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub component and prerequisites by using one of the Jazz for Service Management installation technologies.

Alternatively, you can use the IBM Packaging Utility for IBM Installation Manager to create a network repository that includes the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers component, the Authorization Policy Server, and tivcmd CLI, as well as Jazz for Service Management components and prerequisites. On each system where you want to install an IBM Tivoli Monitoring component for a dashboard environment, you can configure IBM Installation Manager with the location of the network repository and then select the components to install on that system.

For more information about installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring components with IBM Installation Manager, see the following topics:

Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration Service Provider

The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server component contains the Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration Performance Monitoring (OSLC-PM) service provider. The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server is installed on the same systems as your Hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. The service provider registers monitoring resources with the Registry Services. Registry Services is a Jazz for Service Management integration service that provides a shared data repository for products in an integrated service management environment. Products that discover and manage shared IT resources can register these IT resources and the services they offer with Registry Services. Other products can consume data by querying Registry Services for the managed resources or the associated service providers of interest. In the query responses, Registry Services returns links to the service provider that can be queried to retrieve more information about the managed resources.

For more details about Performance Monitoring service provider and the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server, see the following topics:

Native 64-bit versions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring components on Windows systems

You can install and configure 32-bit components from a separate installation image (intended for 32-bit Windows systems) or install and configure 64-bit server components from a separate installation image (intended for 64-bit Windows systems). In addition, the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser and Java Webstart clients now support operation under a 64-bit Windows browser, for example Internet Explorer 64-bit. For this configuration, install a 64-bit JVM supplied by IBM, or from Oracle. Full support for 32-bit browsers under Windows, for example Internet Explorer and Firefox, is also provided.

For more information and the conditions that apply to upgrading the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, see Prerequisites for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3.

Native 64-bit binaries on Linux for AMD and Intel systems

The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Warehouse Proxy Agent, and Summarization and Pruning Agent now provide native 64-bit binaries on Linux for AMD and Intel systems. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal now provides native 64-bit binaries on Linux for Intel systems. All three Tivoli Enterprise Portal deployment modes - desktop, browser, and Java Webstart all support native 64-bit operation under a 64-bit Java Runtime Environment.

Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser support for 32-bit and 64-bit browsers

The Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client now supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox and Internet Explorer browsers.

Current versions of Mozilla Firefox now supported by the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client

Firefox 3.5 and earlier releases of Firefox are no longer supported with IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3. If Firefox is your preferred browser to use with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, then use the most recent Firefox Extended Support Release (ESR) available from http://www.mozilla.org. Upgrading to a later version of Firefox eliminates the post-installation configuration of the JVM that is required to successfully operate the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client. See Browser plug-in support for Java applets.

Tivoli Data Warehouse range partitioning

Range partitioning is a database data organization feature that can significantly improve pruning and query performance in large Tivoli Data Warehouse databases. For more information and the associated configuration parameters, see Tivoli Data Warehouse range partitioning and Specify where tables and indices are created.

Filter by table in Schema Publication Tool

You can now filter by table in any mode of the Schema Publication Tool. See Generate SQL for data warehouse tables.

Changes to default self-describing agent behavior and new tacmd commands

In V6.2.3 and V6.2.3 Fix Pack 1, when the self-describing agent capability is turned on, any available products and versions are automatically installed. As of V6.3, the hub monitoring server blocks all self-describing agent installation until you issue one of the new tacmd commands. You can also use new tacmd commands to enable or disable the state of the self-describing agent function at the hub monitoring server, without having to recycle any hub monitoring servers.

These features provide more control over what products and versions are installed on your monitoring server and portal server by the automatic self-describing agent process. For more information and other new tacmd commands, see Manage your self-describing agent installations and Dynamically controlling the hub monitoring server self-describing agent capability.

SOAP security enhancements and duper process optimization

You can now enable security for CT_EMail and CT_Export requests using the SOAP_IS_SECURE environment variable on the monitoring server.

See Enabling SOAP security in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.

Tivoli Universal Agent and UNIX Log Agent not included in V6.3

The Tivoli Universal Agent and the UNIX Log Agent are not included with IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.3. If you already have any of these agents installed in your environment, you can still use them with IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.3.

Tivoli Integrated Portal name change

The V3.1 release of Tivoli Integrated Portal is now referred to as the Dashboard Application Services Hub.

i5/OS™ agent name change

The i5/OS monitoring agent is now referred to as the IBM i monitoring agent.


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