Updating to V5.5.0

OMEGAMON® V5.5.0 monitoring agents require Tivoli® Management Services V6.3.0 Fixpack 7.

If you upgrade from OMEGAMON for Db2® PE V5.1.1 or later, you must upgrade to Tivoli Management Services V6.3.0 Fixpack 7 or later.

If you have installed an earlier version of Tivoli Management Services V6.3.0, you must, at least, upgrade the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server before you install your first V5.5.0 monitoring agent. In addition, any remote monitoring server through which a V5.5.0 OMEGAMON monitoring agent reports to the hub monitoring server must also be upgraded to Tivoli Management Services V6.3.0 Fixpack 7 or later.

The OMEGAMON V5.5.0 products support a staged migration. This means as you are migrating from OMEGAMON V5.1, V5.2 or V5.3 products to OMEGAMON V5.5.0 products, you may have a combination of V5.1.1, V5.2, V5.3, and V5.4 monitoring agents installed in your environment. For example, you may have an OMEGAMON for Db2 PE monitoring agent V5.3 and an OMEGAMON for Db2 PE monitoring agent V5.4 running in the same hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server environment during the migration period. Support of a mixed environment is provided as a migration help. Operators working in such a transitional environment should be aware of the following issues:

  • OMEGAMON for Db2 supports agent versioning. If a workspace has different versions, it always shows the agent that corresponds to the version. For example, a V5.4 workspace is displayed for a V5.4 agent. The full-text help and the situation editor provides information for all supported versions of agents.
  • You can use the predefined dynamic workspace links provided by the OMEGAMON for Db2 workspace in the workspace of another OMEGAMON product as long as the target workspace exists in this IBM® Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) enterprise. If the target workspace does not exist, you will receive message KFWITM081E.
  • You can use the predefined dynamic workspace links provided by V5.5.0 agents to link from an OMEGAMON V5.5.0 workspace to the workspace of another OMEGAMON V5.4 product as long as the target workspace exists in the product. If the target workspace does not exist, you will receive message KFWITM081E.
  • In cases where the V5.5.0 of the target workspace has been modified (for example, HTML links added to some workspaces) you may notice a different behavior when you migrate the target product from V5.1.1 to V5.5.0.
  • All user interfaces (except for the Configuration Tool and Install Shield) provided with Tivoli Enterprise Portal version 6.2 or later and the OMEGAMON version 5.1 or later monitoring agents are globalized. As a result, workspaces in OMEGAMON XE V5.1 or later are displayed in the specified language (for example, Spanish or Chinese).