Use the agent service interface for retrieving information from an installed agent, whether it is a Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Agent or Tivoli System Monitor Agent. After logging into the local operating system, you can get reports of agent information, private situations, private history, queries, and attributes, and such requests as configuration load list commands.
The Agent Service Interface is accessed through the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Index utility. The interface operates as an Internet server, accepting and validating requests, dispatching requests to the agent for processing, and gathering and formatting reply data using the HTTP or HTTPS application protocol over TCP/IP.
The Agent Service
Interface is not available for installation on i5/OS™ and z/OS operating systems. You can,
however, use the ITMSUPER Tools that are included in the IBM® Support Assistant (ISA), a free local software
serviceability workbench that helps you resolve questions and problems
with IBM software products.
To install the ISA software, go to IBM
Support Assistant. As
part of the tool set, itmsa.htm provides direct access to agent
reports on IBM
i, z/OS®, Windows, Linux,
and UNIX platforms; and itmsuper.htm provides
Web Services tools that are accessible through the hub monitoring
server.