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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
User interface options
Installation of the base IBM Tivoli Monitoring software and other integrated applications provides a variety of interfaces that you can use to work with your resources and data.
The following interfaces are available:
- Tivoli Enterprise Portal user interface
- You can run the Tivoli Enterprise Portal as a desktop application or a browser application. The client interface is a graphical user interface (GUI) based on Java on a Windows or Linux workstation. The browser application is automatically installed with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. The desktop application is installed using the Tivoli Monitoring installation media or with a Java Web Start application. To start the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client in your Internet browser, enter the URL for a specific Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client installed on your Web server.
- Command-line interface
- You can use IBM Tivoli Monitoring commands to manage the Tivoli Monitoring components and their configuration. You can also run commands at the Tivoli Enterprise Console event server or the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer to configure event synchronization for enterprise situations.
- Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services window
- You can use the window for the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services utility to configure the agent and start Tivoli services not designated to start automatically.
- IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console
- You can use the Tivoli Enterprise Console to help ensure the optimal availability of an IT service for an organization. The Tivoli Enterprise Console is an event management application that integrates system, network, database, and application management.
- IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus event list
- You can use the event list to monitor and manage alerts. An alert is created when the ObjectServer receives an event, alarm, message, or data item. Each alert is made up of columns (or fields) of information that are held in a row in the ObjectServer alerts.status table. The Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus web GUI is also a web-based application that processes network events from one or more data sources and presents the event data in various graphical formats.
- Tivoli Common Reporting
- Use the Tivoli Common Reporting web user interface for specifying report parameters and other report properties, generating formatted reports, scheduling reports, and viewing reports. This user interface is based on the Tivoli Integrated Portal.
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Overview of the agent