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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Typical configuration
A typical configuration, depicted in Typical configuration, incorporates the following components:
- One or more Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Servers, which act as a collection and control point for alerts received from the agents, and collect their performance and availability data. The monitoring server also manages the connection status of the agents. One server in each environment must be designated as the hub.
- A Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, which provides the core presentation layer for retrieval, manipulation, analysis, and pre-formatting of data. The portal server retrieves data from the hub monitoring server in response to user actions at the portal client, and sends the data back to the portal client for presentation. The portal server also provides presentation information to the portal client so that it can render the user interface views suitably.
- One or more Tivoli Enterprise Portal clients, with a Java-based user interface for viewing and monitoring the enterprise. Tivoli Enterprise Portal offers two modes of operation: desktop and browser.
- Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents, installed on the systems or subsystems you want to monitor. These agents collect data from monitored, or managed, systems and distribute this information either to a monitoring server or to an EIF or SNMP event server such as Netcool/OMNIbus.
- One or more instances of the tacmd Command Line Interface (CLI). This CLI is used to manage your monitoring environment and can also be used to automate many of the administrative functions performed using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. The CLI commands either send requests to the Hub monitoring server or to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.
- z/OS only: Tivoli Management Services: Engine (TMS:Engine) provides common functions, such as communications, multithreaded runtime services, diagnosis (dumps), and logging (RKLVLOG), for the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, monitoring agents, and components of XE products running on z/OS.
- An Eclipse Help Server for presenting help for the portal and all monitoring agents for which support has been installed. The help server is installed with Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.
Figure 1. Typical IBM Tivoli Monitoring configuration
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Monitor architecture