User's Guide

What is New in this Release

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5.1 is a development of, and upgrades, Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Advanced Edition) Version 4.1, and provides the following additional functionality:

Mdist2 Support

The product now uses Mdist2 to distribute profiles to the endpoints (see Using the Product).

Web-based Health Console

The former Health Console has become a Web-based Health Console (see "Introduction to the Web Health Console"and "Using the Web Health Console").

Tools and guidelines for migrating from Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Classic Edition)

A set of guidelines is available for the migration, and a compatibility mode is now provided to enable Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 users to use Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Classic Edition) monitors inside a Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 resource model (see Appendix G, Migration Considerations).

Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse Support

The product now uses the Gathering Historical Data component to store data in the Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse schema (see "Enabling Tivoli Monitoring to Work with Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse").

Additional Response Actions

The product is now able to act on an event by sending an e-mail to a specified address, sending a notice to a notice group, running a program (see Using the Product).

Tools and guidelines for migrating from Tivoli Web Component Manager

A tool and a set of resource models are now available to enable Tivoli Web Component Manager users to migrate to Tivoli Monitoring (see Appendix G, Migration Considerations)

Serviceability Features

Several new serviceability features have been added to the product. For details, see Appendix C, Troubleshooting.