Configure a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server

The presence or absence of a monitoring server and the type of server (hub or remote, static or high-availability) can be defined as part of setting up of the runtime environment (RTE) or in the RTE configuration profile. If a monitoring server has already been defined for this RTE, you might still need to edit the RTE configuration profile to enable or disable specific features and to specify properties specific to monitoring servers (such as communications protocols, or, for a remote, the name of the hub to which it connects). The parameters that affect this component use the prefix KDS.

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When you configure a monitoring server, you can accept the defaults or specify the following properties:

• Started task name
• Communications protocols to be used with other components
• Interface list support (if required)
• Address translation support (if required)
• VTAM information
• Applids
• Security settings

In addition, the following features are configured for a monitoring server in the RTE configuration profile.

• Support for self-describing agents

  By default, support for self-describing agents is disabled on monitoring servers.

• Event forwarding (hub only)
• SOAP server
• Auditing

For information about specific parameters, see Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (KDS) parameters.