The Tivoli® Data Warehouse is the most intensely used component of the Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure. The warehouse must support a large volume of data transactions during every warehousing period, daily summarization and pruning of the warehoused data and multiple queries that often return result sets that are thousands of rows long. The processing power required to support the warehouse database and the Summarization and Pruning Agent can be significant.
This section provides guidelines for setting your Tivoli Data Warehouse. If you are interested in additional information, see the Tivoli Management Services Warehouse and Reporting Redbook.
The following topics outline processes for optimizing the performance of the warehousing process: