Tivoli Monitoring

• Enables users to leverage pre-packaged system administration expertise out of the box, eliminating the need to perform extensive research and manual configuration of the solution
• Allows users to leverage their own best practices knowledge to create new Resource Models with a simple wizard-driven solution
• Provides a health console accessed by a web browser or Java-based graphical user interface to view both real-time and recent historical data for any server
• Includes a simple installation program
• Provides one common base solution for monitoring all critical software on servers - applications, databases, and middleware

What's New for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2?

IBM Tivoli® Monitoring V6.2 builds on the robust monitoring capabilities of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1, providing improved ease of use, enhanced views, and tighter integration with other Tivoli products for better service management. The major enhancements of this release include:

• Tivoli Enterprise™ Portal user authentication, via LDAP, to reduce implementation and administration work.
• Introduction of Agent Builder that facilitates creation of custom monitors in a matter of minutes.
• Improved performance and scalability.
• Enhanced monitoring of System p™ AIX® environments, including mapping of virtual resources to physical resources, created by the AIX development team.
• Support of regular expressions for log file monitoring, using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Universal Agent.
• Better visualization with improved chart views, IBM Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure topology view enhancements, and support for a full-function browser within a workspace.
• Common Event Viewer, which integrates IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Enterprise.
• Console®, and IBM Tivoli Netcool OMNIbus events into a single console.
• Tools to help automate the migration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5 resource models to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 situations.

This release includes updates to several products in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring family. The updated products are:

• IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Applications
• IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases

IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides monitoring for essential system resources, to detect bottlenecks and potential problems, and to automatically recover from critical situations. Tivoli Monitoring saves system administrators from manually scanning through extensive performance data before problems can be solved. Using industry best-practices, Tivoli Monitoring can provide immediate value to the enterprise.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring also provides the foundation for additional automated Best Practices via Proactive Analysis Components (PACs) for managing business critical hardware and software including middleware, applications, and databases.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option, an optional feature for IBM Tivoli Monitoring, provides an invaluable set of pre-configured, out-of-the-box automated best practices that proactively manage the directory by monitoring essential resources and detecting potential problems. IBM Tivoli Monitoring Active Directory Option also provides seamless integration with other Tivoli Performance and Availability solutions.