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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Tivoli Enterprise Portal is the interface to your monitoring products. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal consists of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and one or more clients.
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (referred to as the portal server) manages data access through user workspace consoles (the portal clients). The portal server connects to a hub monitoring server; it retrieves data from the hub in response to user actions at a portal client, and sends the data back to the portal client for presentation. The portal server also provides presentation information to the portal client so that it can render the user interface views suitably.
The portal server also includes the optional dashboard data provider which is used by Dashboard Application Services Hub to retrieve read-only monitoring data from the hub monitoring server and monitoring agents. Dashboard Application Services Hub can display this data in dashboard applications 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.)
The portal server uses a DB2, Derby, or Microsoft SQL database to store various artifacts related to presentation at the portal client.
The portal client provides access to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. There are two kinds of portal client:
- Browser client interface (automatically installed with Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server): You can run the browser client using Microsoft Internet Explorer or Mozilla Firefox; it connects to a Web server running in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. Running the browser client is supported only on Windows and Linux computers.
- Desktop client interface: A Java-based graphical user interface on a Windows or Linux workstation. After the desktop client is installed and configured, you can use it to start Tivoli Enterprise Portal in desktop mode. You can also download and run the desktop client using Java Web Start.
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Components of the monitoring architecture
Java Web Start clients
Configure clients, browsers, and JREs