IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

One hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and multiple Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServers

In this scenario, one hub Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Server is forwarding events to multiple Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServers where each ObjectServer is configured for the Netcool/OMNIbus single-tier architecture.

Each event server to which events are forwarded must have an associated EIF probe and an installed IBM® Tivoli Monitoring Situation Update Forwarder. For each situation, you must specify the event server to which the situation event should be forwarded.

By default, event forwarding is not enabled for a new situation unless you base the new situation definition on an existing situation that already has event forwarding enabled, or you explicitly enable event forwarding for the situation. When you enable event forwarding for a situation, by default the hub monitoring server sends the situation’s events to the EIF probe that was specified when event forwarding was enabled for the hub monitoring server. If you want to forward events to multiple Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServers, you must use the tacmd createEventDest command to create additional event server destination definitions and then select the appropriate event destination for each situation that has event forwarding enabled.

Figure 1. One hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and multiple Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer

Uses

By configuring the Hub monitoring server to send all events to multiple Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServers, you can introduce redundancy into your event synchronization environment. Use this method to increase availability by having your event data on multiple Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServers.

This scenario can also be used to organize event data by functional area. For example, operating system and virtualization situation events can be configured to forward to one Netcool/OMNIbus event server, while WebSphere® Application Server, DB2®, and other middleware situation events can be configured to forward to another Netcool/OMNIbus event server.

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