User's Guide

Introduction to the Web Health Console

This chapter provides an overview of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Web Health Console (Web Health Console) and the information to install it.

The Web Health Console runs on Netscape 6.2 (or later) and Internet Explorer 6.x. You can use the Web Health Console for the following purposes:

• Checking, displaying, and analyzing the status and health of endpoints that have distributed resource monitors
• Displaying an endpoint's real-time and historical data logged to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring database
• Viewing online and historical data on endpoints as a follow-up to specific problems
• Starting and stopping the IBM Tivoli Monitoring engine and individual resource models on selected endpoints
• Removing a profile from the selected endpoint

This chapter contains the following information:

• A conceptual overview of the Web Health Console
• An explanation of how health is determined for a resource
• Connection information for the Web Health Console