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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.
- The Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers (Server Dashboards) managed system dashboard has new tabs: Properties, CPU, Memory, Disk, and Network. Several tabs have a new time selector bar for changing from real time to showing historical data; and the situation event results dashboard Details tab has a new time selector bar for setting a time range of data samples before or after the event time.
- For the Utilitzation Details for Single Resource report, you can specify the resources to display (CPU, Memory, Disk, Network, or Process).
For version 6.3 of the monitoring agent, enhancements include:
- New attribute, Hyper-Threading, added to the System attributes group.
- New attributes, Description, DHCP, and Friendly Name, added to the Network Interface attributes group.
- New attribute groups, VM Memory and VM Processor, added to the monitoring agent.
For attribute values calculated as an average of the cumulative CPU ticks between two samples, note that the sample time differs depending on how the agent is invoked to return the values. If the agent is invoked to return the values on-demand (for example, after a workspace refresh), the sample time is 30 secs. If, however, the agent is invoked to return the values by a situation or an historical collection request, the sample time is the same as that of the situation or of the collection interval. The affected attributes include:
- NT Process 64 and NT Process attribute groups: % Processor time, Avg % Processor, % Privileged Time, and % User Time attributes
- NT Processor attribute group: % Privileged Time, % Processor Time, % User Time, Interrupts/sec, DPC Queued/sec, % DPC Time, and % Interrupt Time attributes
- NT Processor Summary attribute group: High % Processor Time, High % Privileged Time, High % User Time, High % Interrupt Time, High Interrupts/sec, Low % Processor Time, Low % Privileged Time, Low % User Time, Low % Interrupt Time, Low Interrupts/sec, High Process Utilization, and High Process Avg Utilization attributes
- NT System attribute group: % Total Privileged Time, % Total Processor Time, % Total User Time, and Total Interrupts/Sec attributes
You can customize the attribute values by specifying two variables in the KNTENV file: KNT_CPUSTAT_SAMPLE_SECS for the total CPU metrics (default value: 30 seconds), and KNT_PROCESS_SAMPLE_SECS for the CPU metrics per process (default value: 60 seconds). If these variables are set to 0, the sampling interval is variable: the samples are taken when the requests come to the agent (for example, at each workspace refresh), and the sampling interval is the difference in time between last two samples (with a minimum of at least 5 seconds).
- 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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