This chapter contains information that assists you in assessing your environment and planning the deployment of product components.
The successful use and availability of your IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring environment is the result of a well-planned and executed deployment. Tivoli Monitoring products use a set of service components (known collectively as Tivoli Management Services) that are shared by a number of other product suites, including IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON® XE monitoring products, IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager products, System Automation for z/OS®, Web Access for Information Management, and others. Much of the information in this guide is also relevant to these products.