Interoperability and integration with other products

The OMEGAMON® family of monitoring agents are designed to integrate with each other and with other products that use Tivoli Management Services. These products exploit the power of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to integrate and correlate performance and availability information from a variety of sources.

For example, you can create context-sensitive links between product workspaces to obtain additional information about systems, subsystems, resources, or network components that are being monitored by other monitoring agents. You can also create links from Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces to TN3270-based applications. Additionally, if you have purchased IBM® OMEGAMON Dashboard Edition on z/OS®, you can create custom Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces composed of data from a range of Tivoli® monitoring solutions (IBM Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Management, IBM Z® NetView, and OMEGAMON products). You can use OMEGAMON Dashboard to display metrics from operating systems, middleware, databases, storage, web application servers, and network sources for integrated performance views on a single screen.

After you install OMEGAMON Dashboard Edition, you can set up Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces that display data collected by more than one OMEGAMON product or that integrate OMEGAMON data with data from other products that use the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. You can create a consolidated situation for a combination of products. You can also use OMEGAMON Dashboard Edition on z/OS to set up advanced automation policies for notification and resolution of complex problems. For further information about the components and capabilities of OMEGAMON Dashboard Edition on z/OS, see IBM OMEGAMON Dashboard Edition on z/OS.

Additionally, OMEGAMON products are being integrated with an increasing number of other IBM products. You can generate reports using IBM Cognos®, which gathers data collected by OMEGAMON products and presents results in a format allowing the analysis of trends and key metrics in a consistent and integrated manner. Situation events reported by OMEGAMON monitoring agents can be forwarded to Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus™ for event correlation and management. From the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you can launch into other web-based or web-enabled Tivoli applications without having to re-enter user credentials, and you can launch in context into the Tivoli Enterprise Portal from other applications, as well.

For more information on product integration, see the user's guides for your products.