Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.1 is designed to help operators monitor and manage critical hardware and software—including operating systems, databases and applications in distributed environments. In addition to Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.1, the suite includes:
By taking advantage of Tivoli Monitoring solutions, organisations can stay on top of key performance and resource allocation problems and automate repairs as appropriate. Substantial value can also be derived by maximising the efficiency of IT staff, ensuring compliance with service level objectives and helping to minimise the cost of system administration and deployment.
At the core of Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.1, is the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, a highly customisable desktop or browser client for viewing and monitoring the end-to-end enterprise. It collects monitoring data from applications and resources of systems and subsystems from the monitoring agents and other sources and passes it on to the management server for data collection, filtering, correlation and root-cause analysis. This central point of management allows organisations to proactively monitor and optimise the availability and performance of the entire IT infrastructure, across host and distributed environments. Because information is standardized across all systems, organisations can monitor all resources from a single workstation, then collect and analyse data using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
Tivoli Monitoring software shows how well the entire enterprise is performing by delivering essential data in an easy to-use, customisable interface. The new Tivoli Data Warehouse (based on a simplified database structure with configuration and collection improvements), provides data for analysis and reporting through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. It also eases the management of long-term data by aggregating, summarising and pruning historical data. Advanced real-time and historical reporting capabilities can also be customised according to user preferences—so users see only the data that is important to them. The combination of real-time and historical reporting helps you identify trends, predict system behaviour and make informed management decisions to guide future growth.
Tivoli Monitoring enables users to obtain detailed explanations of incidents and problems, and recommendations for resolving them— simply by moving the mouse over an alert. Organisations can use this knowledge out of the box or edit it to preserve solutions specific to your environment.
Tivoli Monitoring can automatically resolve recurring problems by running existing scripts or utilising scripts created from provided templates, leaving experts to focus on other critical areas. Businesses can use this capability to detect runaway processes and view resource consumption by workload, network and disk information, and system logs - all in real time.
Tivoli Monitoring software also allows organisations to automate detailed system processes, called policies. Using the included workflow editor, organisations can design policies to perform actions, schedule work to be done by users or automate manual tasks.
Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.1, is interoperable with Tivoli Monitoring, Version 5.x. IT managers can visualize resource model health and metrics using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.