Monitoring resources in real time

Resources can be monitored in real time. You can create a profile to determine how the data is collected.

To configure a profile and begin collecting data:
  1. Click Run > Profile... or use the toolbar button to open the launch configuration dialog.
  2. Click Tivoli Monitored Host. This applies to any machine with IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring (ITM) running.
    1. On the Location page, enter your Tivoli Enterprise™ Monitoring Server (TEMS) information. This page specifies where the data is coming from.
    2. On the Content page, specify the data you want to collect. Each node beneath your management server in the tree represents a machine that is being monitored. Agents are listed in the next level. Agents that are not running or are not supported by the toolkit are not selectable. Selecting an agent will show the different types of data that it can collect. Each data type has specific subtypes that can be collected. These types can be static or dynamic. It is important to be judicious when selecting multiple data types in this dialog, because larger amounts of data coming will have substantial memory requirements.
    3. On the Options page, set the polling interval in seconds. This is not the amount of time between data points, but rather between polls. When one poll ends, the next poll starts after the polling interval. For example, if the polling interval is 5 seconds and the poll takes 1 second to complete, there will be 6 seconds between data points. Note that the polling interval should be a multiple of the ITM agent polling interval for best results.
    4. On the Destinations page, specify where to put the collected data. The project is the Eclipse project under which to store the data. The monitor groups the data so you can find it later. This is also used to group items in order to merge the data in the same view. For example, if you have two hosts in the profiling monitor under the same monitor and you want to view their combined data, you can open the view on the monitor and it will automatically and implicitly merge everything for you.
    5. On the Common page, you can control the launch configuration, if needed.
    6. Click Profile to begin collecting data.
    A new agent will be displayed in the profiling monitor. You will also see the statistical view opened, and the data as it comes in.
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