The IBM Tivoli Monitoring solution is the next generation of the IBM Tivoli family of products that help monitor and manage critical hardware and software in distributed environments. This IBM Redbooks publication provides a practical guide to implementing, using and optimizing IBM Tivoli Monitoring, including best practices for performance tuning, sizing, high availability, scalability, reporting, IBM Change and Configuration Management Database integration and firewall considerations.

You will find a great deal of information about IBM Tivoli Universal Agents, including versioning, remote deployment and management, and meta servers.

We also delve into details of IBM Tivoli Monitoring of the components, such as how these components interact, what is the underlying technology, details of configuration files, and where to check in case of problems.

This book is a reference for IT professionals who implement and use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring solution in large scale environments.

Chapter 1. Introduction to IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1

Chapter 2. Planning considerations - large scale deployment of Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 components

Chapter 3. Firewall considerations

Chapter 4. Planning historical data collection in large scale environments

Chapter 5. Optimizing performance within an IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment

Chapter 6. Monitoring best practices

Chapter 7. Deploying IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents in a large scale environment

Chapter 8. Managing IBM Tivoli Universal Agent in a large scale deployment

Chapter 9. Integrating data from external or third-party applications into Tivoli Data Warehouse

Chapter 10. IBM Tivoli Monitoring resiliency and high availability

Chapter 11. Reporting enhancements

Chapter 12. IBM Change and Configuration Management Database integration

Chapter 13. Troubleshooting

Appendix A. Product codes

Appendix B. IBM Tivoli Monitoring component flow diagrams