IBM Tivoli Monitoring > Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2 > Installation Guides > High Availability Guide for Distributed Systems > Monitor functions and architecture > Monitor functions
IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Historical data collection
You can use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to configure historical data collection for one or more sets of performance metrics. When configured, metrics for the last 24 hours are available for viewing at any time as short-term history. Optionally, the collected metrics can be sent to the Tivoli Data Warehouse for storage as long-term history. Metrics sent to the warehouse are also available for viewing from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and from monitoring dashboards that support historical data in Dashboard Application Services Hub.
To prevent unbounded growth of the warehouse database, the summarization and pruning features of the warehouse database can be configured from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to manage the data in the database.
Parent topic:
Monitor functions