Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server, Registry Services, and OSLC clients

The Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server is an optional component that can be installed on the same system as the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. The automation server is not supported if the hub monitoring server is installed on a z/OS® system.

The automation server includes the Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration Performance Monitoring (OSLC-PM) service provider. The Performance Monitoring service provider registers monitoring resources such as computer systems, software servers, and databases with the Registry Services. Registry Services is a Jazz® for Service Management integration service that provides a shared data repository for products in an integrated service management environment. Products that discover and manage shared IT resources can register these IT resources and the services they offer with Registry Services. Other products acting as OSLC clients can use linked data interfaces to consume data by querying Registry Services for the managed resources or the associated service providers of interest. In the query responses, Registry Services return links to the service providers that can be queried to retrieve more information about the managed resources.

The Performance Monitoring service provider also supports the OSLC-PM RESTful API for retrieving linked data about monitored resources. It accommodates HTTP GET requests for the RDF/XML, compact XML and HTML content types. When RDF/XML and HTML content is requested, the API returns resource metrics defined by the OSLC-PM domain.

Each agent that supports registration of monitored resources includes an OSLC template in their monitoring server application support. This template is used by the Performance Monitoring service provider to determine which resources to register and what metrics are available for the resources. The IBM® Tivoli Monitoring distributed OS agents provide templates to register ComputerSystems and IPAddress resources. See the user guide for each of your agents to determine if they also provide an OSLC template.

Install and configure the Tivoli Monitoring Automation Server if your monitoring environment has agents that provide an OSLC template and you want to integrate IBM Tivoli Monitoring with other products using Registry Services and OSLC linked data interfaces. See the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide to find more information on the Performance Monitoring service provider and getting started with OSLC integration. The automation server can be installed on Windows, Linux®, AIX® and Solaris systems.

Registry Services can be installed on Windows, Linux, and AIX systems.