Top Application Performance Management dWAnswers support questions received in October 2016
Hello again! See what our internal staff and customers said were the important issues to view last month for admins Why are the Agents greyed out in the TEPS console after upgrading to FP6? https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/308800/q When is support going to be added for WebSphere V9 for ITCAM for Applications WebSphere agent? https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/308468/q How to reinstall TEPS IHS on Windows platform? https://developer.ibm.com/answers/questions/309293/q Why is APM 8.1.3 IIB (qi) monitoring agent shutting down in... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: New attributes in the 6.30 FP5 Unix Disk Group for ZFS metrics
In this blog, I will list the ten new attributes introduced in the 6.30 FP5 Monitoring Agent for Unix OS on Solaris to monitor the ZFS in the Unix Disk group. The first eight attributes show ZFS properties, the last two attributes introduce a new calculation for the space used percent that corresponds to the output of the command "df -h". Below are the new attributes' complete list and their descriptions. Ten new attributes added to the Unix Disk attribute group: 1. ZFS Quota (KBytes) The ZFS property QUOTA that... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: New attributes in the 6.30 FP5 Unix Data Collection Status Group
This blog will discuss the new attributes related to the processes monitored by the Data Collection Status Group (the daemons used by the agent) introduced in the 6.30 FP5 Monitoring Agent for Unix OS. Moreover a new value for the attribute Status is introduced: Stopped. It applies to the fcp_daemon only, with the following logic: When the script execution feature is enabled but the fcp_daemon is not running, if it is in the status "No Restart" the corresponding status in Data Collection Status is "Failed",... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: Contents of the MANAGEDSYSTEM table and its effect on Operating System (OS) agent reports
Sometimes while running the Operating system (OS) agent reports, they fail to list any servers in the Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) portal. The following screen capture shows that while running a Single Resource CPU Utilization report none of the servers in the environment load in the "Resource Selection > Servers" panel. Sometimes a partial list of servers is seen and some of the newly added servers in the environment may be missing. This occurs because the MANAGEDSYSTEM table is not populated either completely or... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: An overview of IBM WebSphere Application Server as a pre-requisite for Jazz for Service Management
It is important to note that each service in the Jazz for Service Management (JazzSM) bundle has a dependency on WebSphere Application Server (WAS). The mapping between the JazzSM release and the version of WAS (depending on the platform) can be found here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27038732 However, the key requirement that often goes unnoticed is the need for WAS Base bundle for installing any service in the JazzSM package. There are different flavors of WAS available, for example, WebSphere Application Server... [More]
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APM Questions weekly
View the latest IBM Application Performance Management questions on our forums and see the answers provided... dwAnswers - Week of Oct 24 th Can Synthetic Playback agent of APM 8.1.3 replay script which requires Microsoft Internet Explorer? We have application which requires ActiveX, and therefore Internet Explorer (IE). Is there any way to run a script within the Synthetic Playback Agent which incorporates URL's that will only function with Internet Explorer? Answer: https://ibm.biz/Bds4mk IBM Performance Management forum -... [More]
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ITCAM4Transactions - AMC - Best practices and pitfalls
Here is a list of best practices and commonly encountered pitfalls while using Itcam for transactions and its Application Management Console ("AMC", ITM product code 't3') agent, and its associated Application Management Configuration Editor (AMCe) that you can start from ITM TEP client GUI. I have put in bold below the key words that should help you to find out the subject that you are particularly interested in.... 1. Check that you have installed ONLY ONE AMC agent in your ITM... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: How to place limits on CPU and memory for the Windows OS Agent.
In this Blog I will discuss how to place limits on CPU and Memory for the Windows OS agents on servers. Reference: Tivoli Agent Management Services installation and configuration http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSTFXA_6.3.0/com.ibm.itm.doc_6.3/adminuse/agentmgmtsvcs_config_tema.htm , You should copy the k<pc>_default.xml file to k<pc>.xml. For example knt_default.xml to knt.xml. On Windows these are located in %CANDLE_HOME%\TMAITM6<_x86>\CAP ... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: Self describing support in OS agents Interim Fixes
This blog will discuss the introduction of self describing capabilities into OS agents Interim Fixes. The ITM OS agents support self describing since version 6.23, but OS agents Interim Fixes have never been enabled for self describing. The ITM server side files, that may be included in an OS agent Interim Fix, still need to be locally installed on the server. The current tool used to install server side updates of OS agent Interim Fixes (the Application Support Installer - ASI) is no longer officially supported. Moreover it... [More]
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ITM Nuggets: TEMS - How to detect where port scans are coming from on your network
As normal, I like to blog about areas of ITM that I cover when working with you, either through PMRs or direct on customer site. Today's series topics is all related to port scanners being run against TEMS. If you are seeing communications issues such as suspended connections with your TEMS, then this procedure will help you identify where the non ITM connections are being sourced (sent) from. These connections are 99 times out of a 100 a port scanner that is being run against the TEMS IP and port. This... [More]
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Video Blog: ITM Nuggets: How to increase the size and number of logs for a Linux / Unix based TEMS
As normal, I like to blog about areas of ITM that I cover when working with you, either through PMRs or direct on customer site. Today's series topics is all related to increase the log file size on a Linux / Unix based TEMS. Why would I need this? There has been a few cases where larger log files were needed to capture the data support needed to identify the problem (especially relating to communications), so here are the simple steps to increase the size and number of logs the TEMS uses before it wraps... [More]
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The latest IBM Performance Management maintenance is available for download for Cloud Family of Products
1. IBM Monitoring: Downloads and drivers - TITLE: Monitoring Agent for WebSphere Applications for IBM Performance Management 8.1.3.0 Interim Fix 05 - URL: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/quickorder?product=ibm%2FTivoli%2FIBM+Tivoli+Monitoring&fixids=8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-WAS-AGENT-WIN64-IF0005&source=myna&myns=swgtiv&mynp=OCSSTFXA&mync=E&cm_sp=swgtiv-_-OCSSTFXA-_-E - ABSTRACT: This is a cumulative interim fix for the Monitoring Agent for WebSphere Applications provided with the Performance Management version... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: Upgrading Java Runtime for VMware VI agent
Have you been wanting to know how to upgrade the Java runtime for VMware VI agent using the Java runtime from shared components that are part of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents? Continue reading for instructions on how you would upgrade your Java runtime. The VMware agent installs Java runtime version 06.09.02.00 (J6 component) which is not the default Java runtime component installed by ITM framework (default is JM component on windows and JR component on non-windows). Even after upgrading the shared components for IBM... [More]
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APM Questions weekly
View the latest IBM Application Performance Management questions on our forums and see the answers provided... dwAnswers - Week of Oct 17 th Why is APM 8.1.3 IIB (qi) monitoring agent shutting down in a few minutes on AIX? We have several IIB agents from APM 8.1.3 deployed on AIX hosts. On one of the servers, the IIB agent stays up only for a few minutes, and then shuts down. What is causing this issue, and how to resolve it? Answer: https://ibm.biz/BdsEsR __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _ __ _ _... [More]
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8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-WAS-AGENT-IF0005 is now available
WAS Agent 8.1.3 IFix05 is now available on FixCentral: http://www.ibm.com/support/fixcentral/swg/quickorder?parent=ibm%2FTivoli&product=ibm/Tivoli/IBM+Tivoli+Monitoring&release=All&platform=All&function=fixId&fixids=8.1.3.0-IBM-IPM-WAS-AGENT-IF0005&includeSupersedes=0&source=fc Readme, with installation, APAR and other information, can be found here: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=0&uid=isg400002931 With reference to APAR IV89788: Add support for the Application Health Status dataset please note that... [More]
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ITM Nuggets: ITM KDE firewall gateway redundancy configurations
As normal, I like to blog about areas of ITM that I cover when working with you, either through PMRs or direct on customer site. Today's series topics is all related to creating hot standby / failover of the KDE gateway. Terminology Before we start, here are some of the basic terminology you need to know as you read this blog.... Configurations There are two types of configurations for the setup of the KDE_GATEWAY. The examples below demonstrate each type in turn. ... [More]
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Log file monitoring with the OS agents
Now with Application Performance Management your efforts to monitor your log files are greatly reduced as you no longer need to download or maintain the Log File agent. Application Performance Management offers you the same log file monitoring capabilities that you were offered with the Log File agent under IBM Tivoli Monitoring with what is called the ‘converged’ OS agents. Not only that! You can also reuse all your .fmt and .conf files that you created in IBM Tivoli Monitoring. Also, you have the choice to turn on/off... [More]
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ITM Agent Insights: JazzSM Admin UI installation failure
When trying to install JazzSM Admin UI only while other component like registry, TCR, WAS were already installed before and failed to add or install UI component only. This blog will help you to resolve the issue of JazzSM Admin UI installation failure in installing UI component only within existing component. JazzSM version 1.1.2.1. Installation of Admin UI fails constantly with error: Error during "post-install configure" phase: CRIMA1217E: A problem occurred during the execution of the... [More]
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Firewall interferences on Linux OS Agent communication
In an environment where the network communications are managed through a boundary firewall, we know we must take in consideration some specific steps to allow agents communicating with TEMS, if this is on the other side of the firewall. There are lot of good technotes around describing the ports that must be opened to have agents properly communicating with TEMS and WPA, and also the ITM installation guide manuals are a good source of information about this matter. Recently I worked on a scenario where an agent was unable to connect TEMS... [More]
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APM Questions weekly
View the latest IBM Performance Management questions on our forums and see the answers provided... dwAnswers - Week of Oct 10 th Disabling OIDC will NOT affect the usage of APIs (getting tokens) however all IBM documentation (Knowledge Centre and API Explorer) says that "we will use OIDC to get auth tokens). Please let me know if OIDC is disabled, then how can I get an API token. Answ er: https://ibm.biz/Bdsxge IBM Performance Management forum - Week of Oct 10th Filter Custom agent Data Sets Hi, I created a custom agent that... [More]
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