IBM Performance Management

Hybrid Gateway

To view your hybrid environment in the Performance Management console, you must configure a managed system group in Tivoli® Enterprise Portal, install the Hybrid Gateway in your environment, and configure communications. Review the background information to help you plan for installing and configuring the IBM® Performance Management Hybrid Gateway in your IBM Tivoli Monitoring and IBM Performance Management environments.

Where to install the Hybrid Gateway: For details about where to install the Hybrid Gateway, see the Preparing to install the Hybrid Gateway information.
Supported Tivoli Monitoring agents: For a Tivoli Monitoring agent to be available for the Hybrid Gateway, it must also be supported in Performance Management. For a list of available Tivoli Monitoring agents and versions, and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server minimum supported version, see APM Developer Center > Hybrid Gateway supported agents.; If you have custom Tivoli Monitoring agents that you created using Agent Builder, you can add support for them to the Performance Management environment. For instructions, see Configuring support for custom agents created with Agent Builder.
Tivoli Monitoring agents in the Performance Management console: After you select the My Components application or another application in the Application Performance Dashboard that includes Tivoli Monitoring managed systems, you can see a summary status dashboard of all managed systems and you can see a detailed dashboard of a single managed system instance. You can also create a line chart and table in the Attribute Details tab.; You can view situation events for these agents in the Events tab. You can include Tivoli Monitoring agents in applications, and the situations from the agents are available in these applications. However, you cannot create new eventing thresholds for Tivoli Monitoring agents in the Threshold Manager. Instead, create new situations in Tivoli Monitoring.
Important: Not all possible Tivoli Monitoring events are available in the Events dashboard. Only events from agent nodes that can be added to a group or application are displayed. For example, for the Tivoli Monitoring agent for WebSphere Application Servers, events that are associated with a particular server instance are displayed, but events from the agent as a whole are not displayed.
View up to 1500 managed systems from your Tivoli Monitoring domain: The maximum number of managed systems, including subnodes, that you can view from your Tivoli Monitoring domain is 1500. By default, the limit is 200 systems. You can plan for supporting an increased amount of systems. For instructions, see Planning for a large number of managed systems.
Resource monitoring only: If your offering includes IBM Application Diagnostics, only resource monitoring is available. The diagnostics dashboards are not available for managed systems from the Tivoli Monitoring domain.
Tivoli Authorization Policy Server affects the availability of Tivoli Monitoring managed systems: For Tivoli Monitoring environments that include the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server, the managed systems that are available through the Hybrid Gateway are affected by the authorization policies. For more information, see Using role-based authorization policies in the Tivoli Monitoring Knowledge Center.

For a video demonstration, see IBM Performance Management - Install and configure the Hybrid Gateway.