New in Version 6.2.3
The following enhancements have been made to the Tivoli Management Services components that affect the system administrator since the release of Version 6.2.2 Fix Pack 2.
- Application Support Mismatch tool shows version discrepancies
Show new or updated application support is a new addition to the Navigator
view toolbar. A count of version mismatch messages is displayed next to the tool. Select the tool to
see the list of application support version mismatches between the Cloud Pak System Software
Monitoring Portal client and server, and to see instructions for correcting the
discrepancy. See Responding to an application support event for more information.- Apply pending updates tool shows the number of updates
- The tool for refreshing the Navigator view now includes a count of the monitoring agent changes
(added or removed) that are waiting to be updated. For example, six pending updates are shown as
6
Apply pending updates. See Navigator tools for more
information. - Tivoli Performance Analyzer
- Tivoli Performance Analyzer is now a base component of Cloud Pak System Software
Monitoring Server.
Tivoli Performance Analyzer adds predictive capability to Tivoli Monitoring so you can monitor
resource consumption trends, anticipate future performance issues, and avoid or resolve problems
more quickly. Click
Performance Analyzer Configuration in the toolbar to configure analytic tasks. See the IBM® Tivoli Performance Analyzer User’s
Guide. - Situation event console and Common event console tools show the number of events
- The tools for filtering by event severity now include a count of the open events. For example,
nine informational events are shown as
9
Informational. See What the situation event console shows and
What the common event console view shows for more information. - Manually started situations
- Situations that are not set to Run at startup must be started manually. In previous versions, if a managed system was added to the distribution after the situation was started manually, the situation would not start on the newly added managed system. Now, after the situation is started manually, it starts automatically on any managed systems that are subsequently added to the distribution. See Start situations manually or automatically for more information.
- Historical data compression before upload to Tivoli® Data Warehouse
- To reduce network traffic, data collected from distributed monitoring agents is now compressed in memory at the collection location before being sent to the Warehouse Proxy agent for storage on the Tivoli Data Warehouse. Database tables are compressed, which reduces storage requirements, increases the buffer pool hit ratios, and improves the efficiency of the Summarization and Pruning agent and Warehouse Proxy agent.
- Filtering capabilities on the names of processes in Linux and UNIX
- The Linux OS and UNIX OS agents now provide additional filtering
capabilities on names of processes that enable you to distinguish
process names that are longer than 768 characters. For details, see
the Tivoli Monitoring Linux OS Agent User's Guide
New in this release
topic or the Tivoli Monitoring UNIX OS Agent User's GuideNew in this release
topic. - New and enhanced CLI tacmd commands
- The CLI has new options for many of the tacmd commands
and the following new commands:
- tacmd checkprereq to check for prerequisites on the target system before deploying a monitoring agent there. You can review the results with the tacmd getdeploystatus command.
- tacmd restartFailedDeploy to restart failed deployments.
- KinCli.exe to generate response files.
- Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager policies
- You can create policies that interact with your Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) environment. These policies can forward events such as, new, changed, or destroyed resources to your Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager server. See Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager policies for more details.
- ITM Audit attributes and workspace
- The ITM Audit attributes give information on critical state-changing events in the monitoring environment. See ITM Audit attributes and Managed System Status workspace for more information.