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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Tivoli Data Warehouse
With Tivoli Data Warehouse, you can analyze historical trends from monitoring agents. The Tivoli Data Warehouse uses a DB2 Database for Linux, UNIX, and Windows, DB2 on z/OS, Oracle, or Microsoft SQL database to store historical data collected across your environment.
You can generate warehouse reports for short-term or long-term data through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. Warehouse reports provide information about the availability and performance of your monitoring environment over a period of time. Monitoring agents such as the OS agents also provide predefined reports for Tivoli Common Reporting, a Jazz for Service Management component. In addition, Tivoli Common Reporting has a custom reports capability. You can also use third-party warehouse reporting software, such as Crystal Reports or Brio, to generate reports.
Three specialized agents interact with the Tivoli Data Warehouse:
- The Warehouse Proxy Agent receives data collected by monitoring agents and moves it to the Tivoli Data Warehouse database.
- The Summarization and Pruning Agent provides the ability to customize the length of time for which to save data (pruning), and how often to aggregate granular data (summarization) in the Tivoli Data Warehouse database.
- The Tivoli Performance Analyzer extends the capability of Tivoli Monitoring by analyzing and enriching the data that is collected by its monitoring agents and by providing reports about the performance and capacity of your systems.
The Warehouse Proxy Agent, the Summarization and Pruning Agent, and the Tivoli Performance Analyzer, and support for those agents, are installed from the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Base DVD.
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