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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration
When IBM Tivoli Monitoring uses Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration and linked data principles for product integration, depicted in Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment is extended by adding the following components:
- The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server is installed with the Hub monitoring server. It extends the Hub monitoring server by providing the Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration Performance Monitoring (OSLC-PM) service provider. The service provider registers monitoring resources such as computer systems, software servers, and databases with the Registry Services and also responds to HTTP GET requests for resource health metrics from OSLC clients.
- Other products, such as Tivoli Application Dependency Discover Manager, can also provide OSLC service providers that register shared resources such as computer systems, software servers, and databases with Registry Services and that respond to HTTP GET requests from OSLC clients.
- Registry Services is a Jazz for Service Management integration service that provides a shared data repository for products in an integrated service management environment. It reconciles resources registered by multiple service providers. OSLC client applications can retrieve a single record for a shared resource such as a computer system from Registry Services. The record contains URLs that the OSLC client application can use to retrieve additional details about the resource directly from each service provider using HTTP GET requests. Some OSLC clients can display the information retrieved from the service providers in a hover preview on the user interface so that the operator does not have to launch a separate application to see the details. For example, Tivoli Business Service Manager v6.1.1 can display hover preview in its service tree user interface to show health metrics for resources registered by the Performance Monitoring service provider and configuration and change history information registered for the same resources by Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager version 7.2.1 FP4 or later.
- Security Services is an optional Jazz for Service Management service that enables non-WebSphere based servers such as the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server to participate in Lightweight Third Party Authentication (LTPA) based single sign-on with OSLC clients installed on WebSphere servers. For the V6.3 release of IBM Tivoli Monitoring, the Performance Monitoring service provider assumes that Registry Services and Security Services are installed into the same WebSphere Application Server.
Figure 1. IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment using Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration for product integration
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