Log File Agent User's Guide - IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Overview of the agent
- New in this release
- Components of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment
- Agent Management Services
- User interface options
- Data sources
- Requirements and agent installation and configuration
- Requirements for the monitoring agent
- Generate a software product compatibility report for the Log File agent
- Agent-specific installation and configuration
- Configure from the configuration panel
- Configure from the command line
- Configuration Files
- Change the agent configuration and format files
- Centralized Configuration
- CPU throttling
- Remote log file monitoring
- Remote installation and configuration
- Start the agent
- Forwarding events to Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus ObjectServers
- Subnodes
- Configuration file
- Format file
- Format file specifications
- Inheritance
- Multi-line
- Maps
- Value specifiers
- Keywords
- Maximum message length
- Event filtering and summarization
- Detecting and filtering duplicate events
- Summary interval
- Filtering events
- Summarization attributes
- View event filtering and summarization in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
- Workspaces reference
- Predefined workspaces
- Workspace descriptions
- Attributes reference
- Attribute groups for the monitoring agent
- Attributes in each attribute group
- Disk capacity planning for historical data
- Situations reference
- Predefined situations
- Situation descriptions
- Take Action commands reference
- Predefined Take Action commands
- Policies reference
- Predefined policies
- Troubleshooting
- Trace logging
- Overview of log file management
- Principal trace log files
- Examples: Using trace logs
- RAS trace parameters
- Set RAS trace parameters using the GUI
- Manually setting RAS trace parameters
- Dynamic modification of trace settings
- Turning on tracing
- Turning off tracing
- Set trace parameters for the Tivoli Enterprise Console server
- Problems and workarounds
- Installation and configuration troubleshooting
- Remote deployment troubleshooting
- Agent troubleshooting
- CPU throttling troubleshooting
- Remote log file monitor troubleshooting
- Workspace troubleshooting
- Situation troubleshooting
- Take Action commands troubleshooting
- Support information
- Event mapping
- Windows 2008 event log
- Documentation library
- Prerequisite publications
- Related publications
- Other sources of documentation
- Notices