Configuring IBM Control Center
Modify IBM® Control Center settings to meet your specific needs.
- Monitored server considerations
When you are integrating IBM Control Center with supported server types, be sure you read the considerations for each server type. - Cognos Business Intelligence server and IBM WebSphere Application Server considerations
You need to know the considerations for Cognos® Business Intelligence server and WebSphere® Application Server when you are installing and configuring to use with IBM Control Center. - Setting up IBM Control Center to monitor FTP servers
By monitoring an FTP server using IBM Control Center, you can gather information on the files transferred to and from the server. - About configuring events to process through Business Monitor
Before configuring IBM Control Center to emit JMS events to an MQ Broker, first set up your MQ Broker to accept the JMS events to the topic or queue that you want. Then configure IBM Control Center to emit the JMS events to the MQ Broker. After you configure this setup, you can then configure the IBM Business Monitor to subscribe to the topic or queue in the MQ Broker and receive the events. - Setting up IBM Control Center to monitor Sterling Connect:Direct File Agent
IBM Control Center can monitor the status and activity of Sterling Connect:Direct File Agents that submit processes to a Sterling Connect:Direct® server that is managed by IBM Control Center. - Configuring system settings
After installation and configuration, you can begin using IBM Control Center to monitor processing. However, if you want to use IBM Control Center to send e-mail notifications to a system administrator, or to send Simple Network Management Protocol (SNMP) traps to an Enterprise System Management (ESM) tool, you must configure additional parameter settings. - Changing system server group names
You can change system server group names by editing the systemGroups.properties file. However, you must change system server group names before you define other IBM Control Center objects that reference system server groups. - Manage Objects
Read these topics to understand how to handle IBM Control Center objects. - Manage Data Visibility Groups
Data visibility groups (DVGs) limit what events (data) a specific user can monitor. For example, when multiple users have access to a single server, a DVG (together with a server group) provides a way to segment the data a user can view and act upon for that server. - Manage roles and users
Read these topics to understand how to manage roles and users, configure accounts, and set the password policy. - Manage servers
Read these topics to understand how to add servers and manage servers and server groups. - Database partitioning
Database partitioning includes production and staging databases that stores and records data. - Manage rules and actions
These topics explains how to manage rules, the actions that are triggered, and how to use predefined actions and rules. - Manage Service Level Criteria
Service level criteria (SLCs) are performance objectives that require processing to occur within a certain time window. - Schedules overview
Schedules are associated with SLCs to specify when or for how long monitoring occurs. They are associated with rules to specify when events will be matched against rule criteria and when they will not. - Manage email lists
You can create lists of email addresses for groups of users who need to be contacted when an event occurs. - Metadata rules overview
Using metadata rules, you can append additional elements and values to IBM Control Center events before they are processed by both the Rule and SLC services. - Failover configuration
Although IBM Control Center is designed to handle a wide variety of system failures, it might not able to recover in the case of a hardware failure but there are other measures you can take. - Configuring the Statistics Service
You can change the Statistics Service configuration settings to meet the needs of your environment. By default, the service is enabled and operational. - Displaying status changes in the Environmental Health widget
You can display status change alerts in the Environmental Health widget by enabling the Status Changes link and creating rules that contain status change message IDs and an alert action. - Configure the Active Alerts by Category widget
You can set alerts thresholds and configure server message categories that affect how alerts display in the Active Alerts by Category widget