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Learn what to expect from this tutorial, and how to get the most out of it.

About this tutorial

This tutorial shows you the benefits of the consistent manageability interface provided by the open Web Services for Distributed Management (WSDM) OASIS specification. It illustrates how to use IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) to monitor any product conforming to the industry standard WSDM interface and demonstrates step by step instructions on how to monitor a common HTTP server with a WSDM interface from ITM.

Objectives

In this tutorial, you learn the process of how to configure the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product to monitor a WSDM-compatible resource.

Prerequisites

This tutorial is written for administrators familiar with IBM Tivoli Monitoring whose skills and experience are at an intermediate level.

You should have a basic familiarity with Web Services Distributed Management (see Resources), and you should have also successfully executed the prerequisite tutorial, "Create a WSDM interface for an HTTP server using Apache Muse" -- this tutorial builds off of the WSDM artifacts created in that tutorial.

Alternatively, you may complete the tutorial "Create a WSDM endpoint using Build to Manage tooling from the Eclipse TPTP project" to perform the same operations using the Eclipse TPTP tooling, although there are some minor differences if you decide to use that tutorial.

System requirements

To run the monitoring application you create in this tutorial, you need to have the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.1 Universal Agent + ITM Fixpack 4 (or above) product installed on your system. The work is shown using a Microsoft®Windows®> console, but the tutorial can be completed by UNIX® and Linux® users as well.

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Table of contents

• Before you start
• Download and extract the WSDM Generic Collector Engine (WGCE) for ITM
• Install the WSDM Generic Collector Engine
• Validate the WGCE
• Configure and start the WGCE
• Create a custom WSDM collector for the WGCE
• Add the custom collector configuration to WGCE
• Update the http project for Service Groups and advertisements of http capabilities
• Start your WSDM http endpoint
• Validate the collector and craft an instance
• Perform a WSDM Start action
• Perform WSDM Discovery on instance
• View the results of the instance
• See the trace of the flow from the collector to the WSDM agent
• Add second resources and view data as a bar chart
• Monitor other WSDM endpoints
• Enable tracing to see missing data
• Conclusion
• Downloads
• Resources
• About the author

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