The following APAR'S are known issues with IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) V630 FP2: Content 1. Opening the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) Workflow editor shows no situations . Resolved in APAR:   IV50910   2. Msg Slot customization may crash TEMS or cause missing data in the forwarded event after upgrade to ITM v63 FP2 . Resolved in APAR IV50167 3. TEP Java Webstart (JWS) client does not start with Java 7 U45 . Resolved in APAR:   IV51394 4. Missing Situations for process attribute trigger false alert . Resolved in APAR:  ... [More]

During the course of a long sev1 at a large customer site a situation was identified that was delivering 1000+ rows of data every evaluation cycle. This was happening on a just a few Linux OS Agents and it was a contributor to the problems observed at the remote TEMS. The identification was from a TEMS Audit basic workload capture. 1000+ rows of data was a little unusual. That needed investigation and remediation. Read more here . John Alvord, IBM L2 Support and ITM Historian

On December 25, 2013 a sev1 PMR arrived for an unstable remote TEMS. The remote TEMS ran for three hours and then went crazy. Agents could not connect and the hub TEMS decided the remote TEMS was offline. That condition repeated after a remote TEMS recycle. Nineteen remote TEMS were working fine but two remote TEMS were behaving in this strange way. Read more...

IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager for Transactions ~ How to do stuff ~ By Kevin Baldwin - How to..... Find useful information for ITCAM for Transactions and associated products. There are a variety of information sources ranging from product documentation in the Information Center to technotes, blogs and developerWorks articles that can be found using search engines or IBM resources such as the IBM Customer Support Portal. The main purpose of this blog is to highlight information that isn't already listed in the "... [More]

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Welcome to IBM Cloud and Smarter Infrastructure's (C&SI) Tivoli Application Performance Management Product Newsletters for Tivoli Monitoring V6 , Tivoli Monitoring Agents V6 (ITM Agents) and ITCAM for Application Diags. These communications are designed to help you derive maximum value from your software by providing you with helpful e-Support technical information, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to other key information. Please take a moment to read through the materials provided below. We are confident that you will... [More]

A bird atop a pole has a great vantage point to look both behind and forward.  I imagine most of nature looks ahead, except for the fear of predators!  But we can look behind, not out of fear but to learn for the future.  And we usually like to take the first days of a new year to do just that. So, I want to point out some blog posts from the past year that can help you make plans for the coming year to use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for System p agents most effectively. If you read nothing else , read about the latest HMC Base... [More]

      Are you a member of the TUC? TWITTER 101 WEBCAST Utilize Twitter for Business, Networking, and News Jan 30, 2014, 11AM ET, US Are you interested in learning more about Twitter but don't know where to start? Join us for this one hour Twitter training that will take you through everything you need to get started.   EVENTS January 14th : Atlanta TUG Storage Meeting and Tivoli Storage Certification Exams   January 16th : ASAP U Northeast Regional Meeting for Tivoli Workload Automation   January 17th :... [More]

  We are delighted to announce the extension of our SC APM technical series in 2014 with the following upcoming events - if you're interested in registering, please contact Kim O'Connor (kimo conn or@i e.ib m.co m).   Note: most of our SmartCloud Application Performance Management Technical Series events will be recorded and made available through the beta wiki .     Thursday January 16th 4:00 PM - 4:45 PM GMT 11:00 AM - 11:45 AM U.S. eastern standard time Recap of the SmartCloud Application Performance... [More]

This one is in the Installation and Configuration category titled: - Manually configuring a managed WebLogic server V10.3   http://ow.ly/szGxK   See all Tivoli IEA video content here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/tivv1r0/index.jsp See Tivoli's You Tube channel here:   http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMeducation/videos?flow=grid&view=1  

Right behind my house is an old railroad line that has been converted into a hiking and biking trail called the American Tobacco Trail , and about a mile down, a creek runs under the trail.  Of course, several other smaller creeks and run-offs converge to form this creek, and years ago, the railroad owners built a couple of pipes to allow the creek to keep flowing under the railroad tracks.  After a big rain, the creek swells up and the flow through the pipes increases, but I don't have a way to know which of those... [More]

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A gift from IBMer Aldo Duran, who wrote a really nice example project to act as an Event Integration Facility [EIF] receiver and do something interesting. For example you could send an email when a situation is started. Or check a database and figure out who is really interested at a certain time of day.  more...

Consideration of business policies in any environment is necessary before you plan do an optimization. The business policies are dependent on specific environment attributes. IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Capacity Planner allows the Analysts to tag the Virtual Machines with custom user-defined attributes and create a rule which can be considered while doing an optimization. We are organizing a technical deep dive session on 23rd January where in we will show how to create a variety of rules using IBM SmartCloud Monitoring Capacity Planner. This... [More]

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NEW one released titled:  Configuring the data collector on Solaris 10 The video is in the Configuration category http://ow.ly/sLOE3   See all Tivoli IEA video content here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/tivv1r0/index.jsp See Tivoli's You Tube channel here:   http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMeducation/videos?flow=grid&view=1

   This is in the configuration category, titled: Changing the managing server data collector monitoring level see: http://ow.ly/sNGF1   See all Tivoli IEA video content here: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/ieduasst/tivv1r0/index.jsp See Tivoli's You Tube channel here:   http://www.youtube.com/user/IBMeducation/videos?flow=grid&view=1