Products in a mixed environment

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Support for multiple versions of an agent that run in the same environment is provided to support a staged upgrade. However, you should be aware of certain issues while you are working with a mixed environment.

Tivoli® Enterprise Portal user interface

Product information in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal reflects the level of support for applications that are installed on the portal server, not the version of the monitoring agent. After you install support on the portal for monitoring agents, you will see accurate workspace and attribute information for the monitoring agent. However, for prior versions of the monitoring agents, you might see potentially misleading information in flyovers, full-text help, and information that is provided in the situation editor.

You can use the predefined dynamic workspace links provided by agents to link to the workspace of a OMEGAMON® at an earlier version if the target workspace exists in that version of the product. If the target workspace does not exist, you receive the KFWITM081E message.

In cases where the target workspace has been modified (for example, to accept link parameters to limit the data that is displayed) you might notice different behavior when you upgrade the target product.

OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface

The current release of the enhanced 3270 user interface does not support SDA processing. If the enhanced 3270 user interface is configured in the same runtime environment as the hub address space and you plan to upgrade with an OMEGAMON agent that is not configured in this same runtime environment, it is suggested that you run the configuration load processing for both the runtime environment that contains the agent and the runtime environment that contains both the interface and the hub monitoring server and recycle the interface address space.

Globalization of interfaces

User interfaces for OMEGAMON V5.5.0 and later monitoring agents are globalized, with the following exceptions:

  • z/OS configuration tools, which are the Parameter Generator (PARMGEN) and also Configuration Manager.
  • Installation program
  • OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface
  • OMEGAMON (3270) interface

OMEGAMON workspaces in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal are displayed in the specified language (for example, Spanish or Chinese).