ITCAM Agent for WebSphere Messaging 7.0.1 Fix Pack 2 is now available at  IBM Fix Central . If you have registered an IBM ID and password with www.ibm.com , you can download this fix from here . Or you can download it from IBM Passport Advantage . The part number of installation image is CI5W8EN. This fix pack mainly resolves some critical issues about data consistency, agent performance and some agent basic functions. It also provides basic toleration support for WebSphere MQ 7.1 and WebSphere Message Broker 8.0. For more details about... [More]

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Last October, IBM announced SmartCloud Foundation - a set of enabling technologies to help clients achieve disciplined visibility, control and automation across their complex and evolving infrastructures.   Our latest application performance bundle will become a critical part of IBM SmartCloud Foundation and will monitor all applications through a single pane of glass regardless of environment - cloud, virtualized, traditional IT or hybrid deployment. The net result is an optimized environment that drives high availability and performance... [More]

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Todays’ IT environments continue to grow in complexity with increasing adoption of virtualization, clouds, and mobile devices while the Customer user base demands the ability to execute transactions faster with an expectation of an expanded level of overall service and functionality. This increase in demand is challenged by the reality of our economy which forces most IT Managers to deliver within ever tightening budget constraints. Effective Application Performance Management (APM) is the only way to meet the Customer expectations and demands... [More]

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The following two agents provided as part of ITCAM Agents for WebSphere Messaging can help you configure WebSphere MQ objects and monitor your WebSphere MQ environment: ITCAM Agent for WebSphere MQ (formerly known as WebSphere MQ Monitoring agent) ITCAM Configuration Agent for WebSphere MQ (formerly known as WebSphere MQ Configuration agent) Two technotes were just published to explain the compatibilities between different versions of WebSphere MQ and these two agents: Compatibilities between WebSphere MQ and ITCAM Agent for WebSphere MQ... [More]

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The new community will support the evolution of Social Business Standards and address the results of W3C Social Business Jam held in 4Q2011. Over 1000 people contributed their thoughts / requirements to the Jam and as a result six focus areas were identified:   •    Identity Management For Social •    Mobile and Social •    Information Management •    Business Process Meets Social •    Seamless Integration of Social •    Metrics For Social Business The new Community will develop Use Cases addressing the focus areas, best practices papers to... [More]

  This fixpack is both a fresh install and an upgrade and introduces several improvements that provides great benefits in different area: Reduce operating costs: Self Describing Agents delivered in 6.2.3 can be used now in a Hot-Standby configuration First step of  Unix OS Agent (KUX) and Premium Agent (KPX) consolidation for AIX platform has been provided Windows OS Agent Introduced the capability to monitor every Windows Event Logs Improve Product quality: Additional improvement to the reliability of Proxy Agent Services (Agent Watchdog)... [More]

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  IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.3 FixPack 1 introduced a first stage of convergence between Unix OS Agent (KPX) and Premium Agent (KPX) on AIX platform.   The new KUX agent introduced a set of metrics coming from the Premium Agent as described  in the following link:   Attributes The data collection of these metrics is done by a new daemon (aixdp_daemon) that is controlled by the Unix OS Agent and it is enabled by default and can be controlled (locally or remotely using tacmd CLI) using the KUX_AIXDP configuration variable.   The data collection of... [More]

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Have you ever wanted access to what the development team is planning for the future, along with the ability to provide direct feedback on each item within a planned release? With Tivoli's shift towards transparent development, now you can. Transparent Development is the ongoing, open engagement between IBM development and our users on the development of our products. The emphasis is on being open and transparent about our direction and providing you with open access to key release content, including: Release plans and details... [More]

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The IBM Tivoli Monitoring Information Center for V6.2.3 Fix Pack 1 has been refreshed to include the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Builder User's Guide V6.2.3 Fix Pack 1.    Information Center: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/topic/com.ibm.itm.doc_6.2.3fp1/welcome.htm New in Version 6.2.3 Fix Pack 1   Agent Builder User's Guide: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/topic/com.ibm.itm.doc_6.2.3fp1/agentbuilder6231_user.htm PDF   The Agent Builder User's Guide was updated for the following enhancements: You... [More]

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     This fixpack is an upgrade to existing ITM6.2.2 installations. Problems (APARS) fixed IZ81493, IV01091, IV02777, IV06269, IV06895, IV07041, IV07462, IV07585, IV07587, IV07778, IV07838, IV07884, IV07892, IV07913, IV07973, IV07978, IV07983, IV08011, IV08435, IV08547, IV08615, IV08621, IV08836, IV08860, IV08972, IV09037, IV09148, IV09262, IV09265, IV09296, IV09299, IV09414, IV09503, IV09550, IV09554, IV09730, IV09743, IV09745, IV09755, IV09803, IV10238, IV10301, IV10362, IV10402, IV10442, IV10459, IV10579, IV10729, IV11126, IV11285, IV11300,... [More]

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The Application Performance Management UI provides attractive, out of box, fast-response dashboards for managing performance and availability of business applications. The user interface also provides capability for the end users to create highly customized dashboards for a business application quickly by using templates.   The beta program just opened this week and we invite you to join in.  We welcome you to install the user interface with your existing management infrastructure to provide us feedback as we mature this area.  Please join... [More]

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Hi,   The following ITM Best Practice documents are published in ITM Wiki today. The both documents cover ITM security configuration best practices. If you have any feedback, please let me know. Hope this helps. Creating a Highly Secure IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agent Configuration https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Tivoli%20Monitoring/page/Creating%20a%20Highly%20Secure%20IBM%20Tivol%20Monitoring%20Agent%20Configuration Configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring version 6.2.3 Infrastructure and Agents for FIPS... [More]

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A live beta program for ITCAM for SOA opened this Month (April 2012), to share, demonstrate and get your feedback on upcoming themes and features for business process management and SOA governance, including:   Enhanced Support for Business Process Management (BPM) Monitoring Enhanced Integration with WebSphere Service Registry and Repository (WSRR) Adoption of Cognos-based Tivoli Common Reporting (TCR) Common ITCAM Data Collector for WebSphere   Demos are available through the beta website and a hosted environment is available on which to try... [More]

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The latest customer support newsletter for ITCAM for AD and WAS is available here: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?uid=swg27014381     This is a good resource to help you derive maximum value from your ITCAM for AD and ITCAM for WAS software by providing the most up-to-date technical information, answers to frequently asked questions, and links to other key information.

   I have created a simple PERL script to generate a response file for ITCAM for AD v7.1  to configure WebSphere JVM to the Managing Server and transaction tracking for silent configuration. The link  is -->  https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/mydeveloperworks/wikis/home?lang=en#/wiki/Tivoli%20Composite%20Application%20Manager/page/Utility%20to%20Generate%20a%20response%20file%20to%20configure%20ITCAM%20for%20AD%20v7.1%20Agent%20to%20configure%20WebSphere%20JVM  

The IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager (ITCAM) family of products help optimize the performance and availability of your IT infrastructure and control costs by tracking and improving server utilization.  It allows you to integrate the tools to alert, identify and isolate an incident, and diagnose and resolve problems. Confused about which product to use -- ITCAM for WebSphere, J2EE or Web Resources?  This video explains the differences.   Have more questions?  Check out the other ITCAM videos provided by IBM Education... [More]

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A live beta program for ITCAM for Application Diagnostics opened this month (April 2012), to share, demonstrate and get your feedback on upcoming themes and features including: A powerful yet lightweight diagnostics tool that can be deployed very quickly to help optimize the performance of your WebSphere Application Server and WebSphere Portal applications Cognos-based Tivoli Common Reporting capabilities, which provides an effective way to deliver and share reports, as well as making it very simple to create your own custom reports A new ITCAM... [More]

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On April 7th, the Cloud Standards Customer Council (CSCC) released the Practical Guide for Service Level Agreements (http://www.cloud-council.org/04102012.htm). The Guide highlights the critical elements of a service level agreement (SLA) for cloud computing and provides guidance on what to expect and what to be aware of when negotiating an SLA. The guide articulates a set of requirements from a consumer's perspective and identifies elements that need to be addressed via open standards through CSCC's liaison partnerships with key standards... [More]

Best Practice Test Scenarios Validation Steps       ITM Upgrade Test Scenarios     Steps before upgrade ·          Create Backup of ITM Environment of all Components being upgraded ·          Open ITMSuper and save views  for comparison after upgrade  ·          If you are going to use the Secondary HUB TEMS  as a failover for the HUB during upgrade – Validate that the Secondary HUB TEMS is connected and running ·          Open ITMSuper and save the TOPOLOGY view  that lists HUB TEMS , RTEMS and Agents connections ·          ... [More]

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