IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2 is a powerful monitoring product from IBM, that is easily customizable and provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues through the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This common, flexible, and easy-to-use browser interface helps users to quickly isolate and resolve potential performance problems. This IBM Redbooks publication presents a deployment guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2. We cover planning, installing, and configuration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 for small, medium, and large environments. In addition, we provide some case studies, such as IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.x migration, event management integration, and Agent Builder. Agent Builder is a very powerful tool that you can use to develop your own monitoring agents. In order to show you how this tool can be used in a real life scenario, we have created a 30 minute video that you can launch from the ITSO Web site. We have also added an appendix that discusses IBM Tivoli Monitoring sales engagement planning for Business Partners and Solution Developers. The target audience for this documentation is IT Specialists and Business Partners who will be working on IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 implementations and proof of concepts.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express Version 6.1 is a powerful, affordable, and easy-to-use availability management solution designed to help small to mid-sized companies manage IT infrastructures. It offers the ability to manage bottlenecks, performance impacts, and outages across heterogeneous environments from a single, centralized portal. IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1 is easy to install, easy to deploy, and easy to use, providing rapid time to value. It provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues with the new GUI through the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This IBM Redbook presents a deployment guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1. We describe planning, installing, and troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1. In addition, we provide some case studies that you can use as part of a proof of concept or a customer demonstration. The target audience for this book is IT specialists working on new IBM Tivoli Monitoring Express V6.1 installations.

This IBM Redbook is a study guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 and is aimed at the people who want to get an IBM Professional Certification for this product. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 Certification, offered through the Professional Certification Program from IBM, is designed to validate the skills required of technical professionals who work in the implementation of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 product. This book provides a combination of theory and practical experience needed for a general understanding of the subject matter. It also provides sample questions that will help in the evaluation of personal progress and provide familiarity with the types of questions that will be encountered in the exam. This publication does not replace practical experience, nor is it designed to be a stand-alone guide for any subject. Instead, it is an effective tool that, when combined with education activities and experience, can be a very useful preparation guide for the exam. For your convenience, we structure the chapters based on the sections of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 Implementation Certification test, such as Planning, Prerequisites, Installation, and so on, so studying each chapter will help you prepare for one section of the exam.

The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 solution is the next generation of the IBM Tivoli family of products that help monitor and manage critical hardware and software in distributed environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 has emerged from the best of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 5 and OMEGAMON technologies. Integration of these products creates a unique and comprehensive solution to monitor and manage both z/OS and distributed environments. IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 is easily customizable and provides real-time and historical data that enables you to quickly diagnose and solve issues with the new GUI via the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal component. This common, flexible, and easy-to-use browser interface helps users to quickly isolate and resolve potential performance problems. This IBM Redbook covers planning, architecture, tuning, implementation, and troubleshooting of IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1. In addition, we offer scenarios for migration from Distributed Monitoring 3.7, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.X coexistence with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1. This book is targeted for IT specialists who will be working on new IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 installations on distributed environments or implementing migration from Distributed Monitoring 3.7 or IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.X coexistence.

This redbook updates and unifies both Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Advanced Edition) 4.1 Redbooks into one redbook. This includes both monitoring and Workbench software. This redbook will prove invaluable to Tivoli system administrators that are migrating from earlier releases of Tivoli Distributed Monitoring. Various examples of creating resource models to replace custom monitors are included. Additional information in this redbook: -Installation of the improved Web Health Console. -Considerations for when the environment includes a firewall. The solution includes the Tivoli Firewall Security Toolbox. -Tips on how to debug a UNIX/Linux resource model. -Migration steps for the Tivoli Web Component Manager. -Integration with Tivoli Data Warehouse. -An enhanced look at heartbeating. -An enhanced look at integration with Tivoli Enterprise Console and Tivoli Business Systems Manager.

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