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8.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring integration
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1.1 feeds the availability status of various resources to
IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager. These configured business views
present data critical for managing business objects. With these views, IBM Tivoli
Business Systems Manager can assess the business impact on the availability
status of a resource.
The Tivoli Management Environment® framework provides a means to manage
distributed resources through centralized control and configuration. IBM Tivoli
Monitoring 5.1.1 is the backbone for availability monitoring across operating
systems and applications and integrates tightly into the framework.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1.1 maintains many of the advances of IBM Tivoli
Monitoring 5.1, such as integration with the Common Information Model (CIM)
and Windows Management Instrumentation (WMI) to manage event and
performance data closer to the source.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1.1 uses Java-based technology to integrate with
industry-standard information models, correlating event data at the server level
with event data from other monitors on the server. It can process the information
intelligently to recognize critical situations by performing functions locally at the
managed resource—functions such as local event analysis, event correlation,
event aggregation, event management, and event logging. Overall, this reduces
the number of events at the central display.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1.1 continues the approach of building monitors based on
resource models. These in turn are based on the CIM, which provides industry
standards for vendors and application developers who wish to instrument their
software.
The software level and environment that we use is described in 1.5, “Lab
environment” on page 22.
The integration between IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1.1 and IBM Tivoli Business
Systems Manager is achieved by:
? Installing and configuring the Common Listener service on the IBM Tivoli
Business Systems Manager Management Server.
? Installing and configuring the IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager Adapter
on each of the gateways whose attached endpoints are to be monitored.
The installation and the configuring of the Common Listener is covered in 6.4,
“Console and propagation server installation” on page 190. In this chapter we will
concentrate on the installation and the configuring of the adapter.
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By integrating IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager with IBM Tivoli Monitoring
5.1.1, the following functions are performed:
? IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager Adapter performs endpoint registration
and discovery when the wdmdiscovery command is issued on the gateway.
? IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1.1 events are sent directly to IBM Tivoli Business
Systems Manager through the IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager
Adapter on the endpoint gateway.
Figure 8-1 presents the data flow as well as the processes that are involved
when we enable IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager integration.
Figure 8-1 IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager for ITM diagram
The interface performs two functions: bulk discovery and event forwarding. Bulk
discovery is performed using the wdmdiscovery command, while event forwarding
is performed from an individual monitoring profile.
As shown in Figure 8-1, the adapter works as follows:
1. From a managed node or the TMR server, we can run the wdmdiscovery
command to trigger the bulk or delta discovery.
2. The command queries all gateways for IBM Tivoli Business Systems Manager
resources.
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