Tivoli Enterprise Portal is
a Java-based browser user interface for viewing and monitoring your
enterprise.
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal is
a user interface on the workstation that offers a single point of
view for online monitoring and analysis. You can view information
about all the resources in your IT environment. For example, you can
view information about your operating systems, hardware such as routers,
applications such as WebSphere®, IMS™, and CICS®, and custom applications. It can run as
a browser applet or as a Java™ application. OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE gathers data
from remote agents residing on the managed systems of your DB2® network and stores this data
in system elements called attributes.
The monitoring data is received via the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS) and the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server from the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agents (TEMA). Information
is then displayed in named workspaces.
The
Tivoli Enterprise Portal is
a customizable interface. For example, you can:
The
Tivoli Enterprise Portal allows
you to view a wealth of information, including the following:
- Detailed thread activity information about your DB2 threads, including Workload Manager information
- The interaction of a DB2 system
with MVS™, CICS, IMS, z/OS®, and other systems, databases
and applications within a single interface from any location
- Database lock activities and detailed lock conflict information
about your database locks
- Information about DB2 resources
such as buffer pools, EDM pools, group buffer pools, and dynamic statement
caches
- Enhanced information for data base access threads (DBATs) at DB2 Connect™ gateways
- DB2 log manager active logging
and archiving activities
- Distributed Database Facility statistics, including send and receive
counts
- Detailed information about threads and thread exceptions connected
to DB2
- Information about the performance of volumes that contain DB2 objects so that you can monitor
the DASD performance by volume (Group Object Analysis (GOA) Volume
workspace group)
- Information about a data sharing group and its coupling facility
structures
- Active utility jobs
- DB2 Connect gateway
activities
You can use the
Tivoli Enterprise Portal to
perform the following analysis activities:
- Detecting I/O related bottlenecks such as heavilyy used volumes
- Analyzing system-wide or application-specific resource usage to
tune DB2 resources or to identify
applications that are performing poorly
- Using historical information in the short-term history to detect
and analyze problems in the past
- Using situations to automatically inform you about problems. You
can use predefined situations or you can create your own situations
- Automating problem resolution by taking automatic action when
certain events are detected. For example, you can run an MVS job, send a message to a system automation
tool, or cancel a thread
- Managing problems detected by your team by using a built-in trouble
ticket system or by forwarding the alert to an external event console
For installation and configuration instructions, see Installing and configuring Tivoli Enterprise Portal.