The following sections describe changes in this release
that affect installation or configuration.
For a complete list of new product features, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's
Guide.
- Jazz™ for Service Management
Jazz for Service Management
brings together the Open Services for Lifecycle Collaboration (OSLC)
community's open specifications for linking data, shared administrative
services, dashboard and reporting services. Through these facets, Jazz for Service Management accelerates
deployment, integration, and workflow automation across IBM®, partner, and third-party tools.
Jazz for Service Management has
a number of integration services: Administration, Registry, IBM Tivoli® Common
Reporting, Security, and IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub. These integration services provide key features
including:
- Shared data repository for products integrating through Jazz for Service Management.
- Consistent UI experience through Dashboard Application Services
Hub in Jazz for Service Management.
- Simplified administration of products and solutions integrating
through Jazz for Service Management.
- Ad hoc, self-service reporting through Tivoli Common Reporting in Jazz for Service Management.
For more information about Jazz for
Service Management, go to the
Jazz for Service Management Information Center.
- IBM Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers running on the Dashboard Application Services
Hub V3.1 or later
- With the IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboard data provider
enabled, Dashboard Application Services Hub users can retrieve managed
system groups and events for all monitoring agents and agent health
metrics for Linux OS agent, UNIX OS agent, and Windows OS agent using the Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for Servers application. This application is
installed and configured into Dashboard Application Services Hub V3.1
or later using IBM Installation
Manager. For more information, see Installing and configuring the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers and Required software and memory requirements for a dashboard environment.
- Dashboard data provider configuration option for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
- The IBM Tivoli Monitoring dashboard data provider
retrieves monitoring agent data for display in the Dashboard Application
Services Hub. The dashboard data provider is optionally enabled during
the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Server configuration. With the dashboard data provider enabled and
configured, Dashboard Application Services Hub users can retrieve
read-only data from the hub monitoring server and monitoring agents
for display in monitoring dashboards. Examples of such dashboards
are the IBM Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers, IBM Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for VMware, IBM Infrastructure
Management Capacity Planner for VMware, IBM Infrastructure
Management Capacity Planner for PowerVM®,
or custom dashboards.
Dashboard data provider is the new name for
the ITM REST service. In IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3, the dashboard
data provider has been enhanced to improve performance for monitoring
dashboards. For more information, see "Creating a connection to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring
dashboard data provider" in
the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's
Guide.
- Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server
- The Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server feature provides you with greater access control capabilities.
You can protect your resources from unauthorized access by users of
monitoring dashboards in the IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub. IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 with the
Authorization Policy Server feature enabled provides the following
capabilities:
- To restrict the access for dashboard users to Managed System Groups
and to individual agent managed systems.
- The ability to grant role-based access control to users and user
groups, making access control easier and safer.
To implement the feature, you must install IBM Installation Manager packages for the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server
and the tivcmd Command Line Interface for Authorization Policy. The
Authorization Policy Server is installed with your Dashboard Application
Services Hub. The command-line interface is installed on the computers
that are used by the administrators who are creating authorization
policies. After successful installation of these two packages, you
can execute various CLI commands as required to create roles, grant
permissions, exclude permissions, and so on. After you have created
roles and permissions, you enable authorization policy enforcement
in the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal Server configuration. For more information, see Installing and configuring the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server and tivcmd Command-Line Interface for Authorization Policy and Required software and memory requirements for a dashboard environment.
- Installation Launchpad and IBM Installation
Manager
- IBM Installation Manager
is a tool that is designed to install and maintain your software packages.
You can use IBM Installation
Manager to install the following IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 components:
- Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server
- tivcmd Command Line Interface for Authorization Policy
- IBM Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers
Wizards guide you through the steps to install, modify, update,
roll back, or uninstall your IBM products.
Use Installation Manager to install software packages on your local
machine, or with the IBM Packaging
Utility to install software for an enterprise from a network accessible
repository. Installation Manager is installed along with the new IBM Tivoli Monitoring
components, if it is not already installed on your machine. For
more information about IBM Installation
Manager and the IBM Packaging
Utility, go to http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/install/v1r6/index.jsp.
If you want to install the Authorization
Policy Server, tivcmd CLI, or IBM Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for Servers from the installation media, you
can use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad application.
The installation launchpad automatically installs, configures, and
starts IBM Installation Manager.
Once started, you can use IBM Installation
Manager to install and configure the components onto the local system.
This approach assumes that you have already installed the IBM Dashboard Application Services
Hub component and prerequisites by using one of the Jazz for Service Management installation technologies.
Alternatively,
you can use the IBM Packaging
Utility for IBM Installation
Manager to create a network repository that includes the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for
Servers component, the Authorization Policy Server, and tivcmd CLI,
as well as Jazz for Service
Management components and prerequisites. On each system where you
want to install an IBM Tivoli Monitoring component for
a dashboard environment, you can configure IBM Installation Manager with the location of
the network repository and then select the components to install on
that system.
For more information about installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring
components with IBM Installation
Manager, see the following topics:
- Open Services Lifecycle Collaboration Service Provider
The Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Automation Server component contains the Open Services
Lifecycle Collaboration Performance Monitoring (OSLC-PM) service provider.
The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Automation Server is installed on the same systems as your Hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server. The service provider registers monitoring resources 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 can consume data
by querying Registry Services for the managed resources or the associated
service providers of interest. In the query responses, Registry Services
returns links to the service provider that can be queried to retrieve
more information about the managed resources.
- For more details about Performance Monitoring service provider
and the Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Automation Server, see the following topics:
- Native 64-bit versions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring components
on Windows systems
- You can install and configure 32-bit components from a separate
installation image (intended for 32-bit Windows systems) or install and configure
64-bit server components from a separate installation image (intended
for 64-bit Windows systems).
In addition, the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal browser and Java™ Webstart
clients now support operation under a 64-bit Windows browser, for example Internet Explorer
64-bit. For this configuration, you must install a 64-bit JVM supplied
by IBM, or from Oracle. Full
support for 32-bit browsers under Windows,
for example Internet Explorer and Firefox, is also provided.
For
more information and the conditions that apply to upgrading the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server and Tivoli Enterprise
Portal Server, see Prerequisites for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3.
- Native 64-bit binaries on Linux for
AMD and Intel systems
- The Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server, Warehouse Proxy Agent, and Summarization and Pruning
Agent now provide native 64-bit binaries on Linux for AMD and Intel systems. The Tivoli Enterprise Portal now provides native
64-bit binaries on Linux for Intel systems. All three Tivoli Enterprise Portal deployment
modes - desktop, browser, and Java Webstart
all support native 64-bit operation under a 64-bit Java Runtime Environment.
- Tivoli Enterprise Portal
browser support for 32-bit and 64-bit browsers
- The Tivoli Enterprise
Portal browser client now supports both 32-bit and 64-bit Firefox
and Internet Explorer browsers.
- Current versions of Mozilla Firefox now supported by the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser
client
- Firefox 3.5 and earlier releases of Firefox are no longer supported
with IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3. If Firefox is your
preferred browser to use with the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal, then use the most recent Firefox Extended Support Release
(ESR) available from http://www.mozilla.org. Upgrading to a later version of Firefox
eliminates the post-installation configuration of the JVM that is
required to successfully operate the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal browser client. For more information, see Browser plug-in support for Java applets.
- Tivoli Data Warehouse
range partitioning
- Range partitioning is a database data organization feature that
can significantly improve pruning and query performance in large Tivoli Data Warehouse databases.
For more information and the associated configuration parameters,
see Tivoli Data Warehouse range partitioning and Specifying where tables and indices are created.
- Filter by table in Schema Publication Tool
- You can now filter by table in any mode of the Schema Publication
Tool. For more information, see Generating SQL for data warehouse tables.
- Changes to default self-describing agent behavior and new tacmd
commands
- In V6.2.3 and V6.2.3 Fix Pack 1, when the self-describing agent
capability is turned on, any available products and versions are automatically
installed. As of V6.3, the hub monitoring server blocks all self-describing
agent installation until you issue one of the new tacmd commands.
You can also use new tacmd commands to enable or disable the state
of the self-describing agent function at the hub monitoring server,
without having to recycle any hub monitoring servers.
These features
provide more control over what products and versions are installed
on your monitoring server and portal server by the automatic self-describing
agent process. For more information and other new tacmd commands,
see Managing your self-describing agent installations and Dynamically controlling the hub monitoring server self-describing agent capability.
- SOAP security enhancements and duper process optimization
- You can now enable security for CT_EMail and CT_Export requests
by using the SOAP_IS_SECURE environment variable on the monitoring
server.
- For more information, see Enabling SOAP security in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's
Guide.
- Tivoli Universal Agent
and UNIX Log Agent not included
in V6.3
- The Tivoli Universal
Agent and the UNIX Log Agent
are not included with IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.3.
If you already have any of these agents installed in your environment,
you can still use them with IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.3.
- Tivoli Integrated Portal
name change
- The V3.1 release of Tivoli Integrated
Portal is now referred to as the Dashboard Application Services Hub.
- i5/OS™ agent name change
- The i5/OS monitoring agent
is now referred to as the IBM i
monitoring agent.