Controlling with IBM Tivoli Monitoring

IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring is a product that applies pre-configured best practices to the automated monitoring of essential system resources. It helps you to detect bottlenecks and other potential problems and provides you with the means for automatic recovery from critical situations. In this way it eliminates the need for system administrators to manually scan through extensive performance data.

IBM Workload Scheduler integrates with IBM Tivoli Monitoring through the installation of a customizable agent, the IBM Z Monitoring agent that collects and distributes data to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.

By using data providers that are the interfaces of the IBM Z Monitoring agent , you can collect data from data sources, client programs, URLs, scripts, relation tables, or SNMP agents and transfer the collected data fo the custom IBM Z Monitoring agent that monitors the collected data.

The IBM Z Monitoring agent uses two different data providers to integrate with IBM Workload Scheduler:
  • A script data provider that collects IBM Workload Scheduler data by running a script at regular intervals and parsing the script output to look for errors, anomalies, and threshold conditions. The following resources are monitored:
    • Host availability
    • Application status
    • IBM Workload Scheduler used space
    • IBM Workload Scheduler available disk space
    • Page-outs
    • Swap space available
    • IBM Workload Scheduler message file size
  • An agent log file data source that monitors data in a sequential text file. IBM Workload Scheduler writes events for all monitored objects (for example, jobs and job streams), after each new plan production, to an event file that is accessed by the Z Monitoring agent for IBM Workload Scheduler. The collected data is retrieved and displayed by the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.