Tivoli Management Services components

The OMEGAMON suite of products uses the Tivoli® Management Services infrastructure, which provides security, data transfer and storage, notification mechanisms, user interface presentation, and communication services for products in the IBM® Tivoli Monitoring and IBM OMEGAMON suites in an agent/server/client architecture.

Figure 1 shows a simple topology of the various principal components that form the Tivoli Management Services and OMEGAMON monitoring infrastructure, and how they interact with each other.

Illustration of the relationship between Tivoli Management Services components and monitoring agents — Figure 1. Agent/server/client architecture

Note: Not all the Tivoli Management Services and OMEGAMON components in Figure 1 are required for all customer environments. For example, you do not have to have a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installed in your environment to run OMEGAMON on z/OS® and use the OMEGAMON® enhanced 3270 user interface to view data. However, if you enable the self-describing agent feature provided by Tivoli Management Services, the Tivoli Enterprise Services user interface extension is required to control the administration of the self-describing agent feature. This component provides the tacmd command-line utility to interact with a monitoring server. This component is available on the IBM Tivoli Monitoring DVD image that are referenced in the IBM OMEGAMON Monitoring Agents on z/OS Quick Start Guide.