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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
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For version 6.3 Fix Pack 2 of the monitoring agent, enhancements include:
- The Tivoli Common Reporting data model exposes the Managed System List. You can use the Managed System List in combination with, or as an alternative to, the Managed System Name. This capability is available for custom reporting only and the specified metrics are aggregated using the default aggregation function.
- Monitor support for data queues, including the current number of messages and capacity of each data queue. A new attribute group, IBM i Data Queue, and new workspace, Data Queues, provide this capability.
For version 6.3 of the monitoring agent, enhancements include:
- The Tivoli Management Services DLA discovers resources and relationships and creates a Discovery Library Book file. The Book follows the Discovery Library IdML schema version 2.9.2 and is used to populate the Configuration Management Database (CMDB), and Tivoli Business System Management products. The Tivoli Management Services DLA discovers IBM i OS resources. For all IBM i OS systems that are active and online at the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, information is included in the discovery book for those resources.
- New attributes, Current Unprotected Storage Percent, System ASP Size, and Total AUX Storage, added to the System Status attribute group.
- New attribute, Temporary Storage Used, added to the Job attribute group.
- New attribute, Type, added to the Miscellaneous attributes group.
- New attribute, Feature, added to the Licensed Program Product attributes group.
- The System Status view of the System Status i5, 2 workspace displays data for the new attributes, Current Unprotected Storage Percent, System ASP Size, and Total AUX Storage. For agents before ITM V6.3, the data for these fields defaults to 0.
- The System Status view of the Job Resource Details, 2 workspace displays data for the new attribute, Temporary Storage Used. For agents before ITM V6.3, the data for these fields defaults to 0.
- Support for Tivoli Common Reporting feature.
- The Summarization and Pruning agent automatically creates and maintains the shared dimensions tables. For instructions to enable this feature, see "Configuring the Summarization and Pruning agent to maintain the dimension tables" in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide. To enhance this feature for the OS Agents Reports package, the installer now prompts you to provide JDBC connection details and credentials for the TDW database. This RegisterPackage script execution step inserts data into the WAREHOUSETCRCONTROL table. After this step, the MANAGEDSYSTEM table and the TIME_DIMENSION table are kept up to date automatically by the Summarization and Pruning agent. However, if you opt not to use this feature and prefer, instead, to manually maintain the dimensions tables, skip this step. for instructions to perform any required manual steps, see "Manually creating and maintaining the dimension tables" in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.
- The agent provides ComputerSystem and IPAddress resources for the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration Performance Monitoring (OSLC-PM) service provider. 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.
- The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers is a web-based application that runs in the Dashboard Application Services Hub. The server dashboards give the overall status of the service areas in your managed network. Use the server dashboards to assess the event and system status of your managed network that is filtered by your area of responsibility. The information ranges from a high-level overview of all managed system groups and the situation events associated with them, to more detailed dashboards with key performance information about the selected group, managed system, or situation event.
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