Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server

Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (also called the monitoring server) is the nerve center of Tivoli Management Services.

The monitoring server performs the following tasks:
  • Consolidates the data collected by monitoring agents and distributes the data to the connected clients (OMEGAMON® enhanced 3270 user interface and Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server).
  • Manages the connection status of the monitoring agents.
  • Receives commands from the connected clients and distributes them to the appropriate monitoring agents.
  • Sends alerts to the connected clients when specified availability and performance problems are detected.
  • Stores historical data and configuration prototypes.
Based on different functions in the monitoring systems, there are two monitoring server types:
  • The hub monitoring server is the central monitoring server, acting as the focal point for data collection and distribution. It communicates with monitoring agents, with the OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface, with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, and with the Warehouse Proxy and Summarization and Pruning agents (see Tivoli Data Warehouse).
  • The remote monitoring server is remote only with respect to the hub monitoring server, not with respect to the monitoring agents. Remote monitoring servers communicate only with the monitoring agents that report to them and with the hub monitoring server to which the monitoring servers report.

Monitoring servers can run on z/OS, Windows, AIX®, Solaris, or Linux® systems.