User's Guide

What This Guide Contains

This guide contains the following sections and chapters:

Part I. Installing, Configuring, and Using

• Introduction

  Provides an introduction to IBM Tivoli Monitoring, its features and functions and its role in the Tivoli environment. It also provides a brief introduction to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Workbench, an application you can use to develop your own resource models, or to extend existing ones.

• Installing

  Describes the steps for installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring in your Tivoli environment.

• Using the Product

  Describes the purpose of profiles in the Tivoli environment and presents the range of customization options you can apply to the default resource models supplied with the product or generated using IBM Tivoli Monitoring Workbench. It also describes how to distribute resource models to endpoints, and what to do if the distribution fails at one or more endpoints.

• Heartbeat Function

  Gives full details of the purpose, use and management of the heartbeat function.

• Integration with Tivoli Enterprise Console Server

  Describes how to enable monitoring of IBM Tivoli Monitoring events on a Tivoli Enterprise Console server (event server).

• Integration with Tivoli Business Systems Manager

  Describes the integration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring with Tivoli Business Systems Manager and provides the steps for enabling the monitoring of IBM Tivoli Monitoring events on the Tivoli Business Systems Manager workstation.

Part II. Web Health Console

• Introduction to the Web Health Console

  Describes the purpose and benefits of the Web Health Console in day-to-day monitoring of resources.

• Using the Web Health Console

  Describes the steps for starting, configuring, and using the Web Health Console to monitor the resources of a specific list of endpoints.

Part III: Appendixes

• Appendix A, Commands

  Lists and describes the IBM Tivoli Monitoring commands that you can issue from the command line.

• Appendix B, Error, Warning, and Information Messages

  Lists the error, warning, and information messages that can appear in IBM Tivoli Monitoring. It provides a description of the message, what caused the error, and how to resolve the cause of the error.

• Appendix C, Troubleshooting

  Provides information about logs and traces, and some diagnostics.

• Appendix D, Accessibility

  Provides information about the support provided in the product and its documentation for users with a visual or physical handicap.

• Appendix E, Use of Rhino: JavaScript for Java

  Provides the text of the license for the use of Rhino: JavaScript^(TM) for Java^(TM), which is incorporated in the product.

• Appendix F, Environment Variables

  Documents the environment variables used by the product.

• Appendix G, Migration Considerations

  Describes the migration from Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Advanced Edition) 4.1 and the migration from Tivoli Web Component Manager.