September 2022: APAR OA63539
Attributes support refreshed to include new attributes introduced by monitoring agents.
Documentation-only changes:
- OMEGAMON monitoring agents as a data source for OMEGAMON Data Provider
- A new topic about choosing the destinations of collected attributes.
- Expected messages
- A new topic that lists the normal messages that you should expect from each component involved in OMEGAMON Data Provider.
- Configuration parameters for OMEGAMON monitoring agents as a data source
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- More details about the special
interval
value 0 - Clarification of default destinations for unselected collections
- Precedence of entries in the
collections
sequence - More examples
- More details about the special
- Adding more OMEGAMON collections to OMEGAMON Data Provider
- A new topic about adding more collections to an environment that already sends some collections to OMEGAMON Data Provider.
- OMEGAMON Data Broker
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- Forwarding to multiple instances of OMEGAMON Data Connect
- Each instance of OMEGAMON Data Broker can forward
attributes to multiple instances of OMEGAMON Data Connect.
For an overview of this concept, see OMEGAMON Data Provider topology.
For configuration details, see OMEGAMON Data Broker configuration parameters.
- Logging level
- Typically, you only need to set the OMEGAMON Data Broker logging options parameter (
LOGOPTS
) if IBM® Software Support requests you to do so for troubleshooting.
- OMEGAMON Data Connect
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- Handling of errors in filter condition expressions
- Clarification of how OMEGAMON Data Connect handles different types of errors in filter condition expressions.
- Parameters for managing attempts to connect to a TCP sink
- Descriptions of two previously undocumented TCP output parameters:
max-connection-attempts
andretry-interval
. - Methods for setting the logging level
- Different ways to set the OMEGAMON Data Connect logging level.