Components of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment

After you install and set up the IBM Tivoli Advanced Allocation Management for z/OS Agent, you have an environment that contains the client, server, and monitoring agent implementation for IBM Tivoli Monitoring that contains the following components:

• Tivoli Enterprise Portal client with a Java-based user interface for viewing and monitoring your enterprise.
• Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server that is placed between the client and the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and enables retrieval, manipulation, and analysis of data from the monitoring agents. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server is the central repository for all user data.
• Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server that acts as a collection and control point for alerts received from the monitoring agents and collects their performance and availability data. The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server is also a repository for historical data.

IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console is an optional component, which acts as a central collection point for events from a variety of sources, including those from other Tivoli software applications, Tivoli partner applications, custom applications, network management platforms, and relational database systems. You can view these events through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal (using the event viewer), and you can forward events from IBM Tivoli Monitoring situations to the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console component.