AIX operating systems

AIX: Configuring historical data collection from within Tivoli Enterprise Portal

After you install the monitoring agent in to an existing IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring environment, you must configure historical data collection if you intend to generate reports based on this data. You can configure historical data collection from within Tivoli Enterprise Portal, but consider using the command-line interface instead because it is quicker than doing it from within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

About this task

If you installed Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager by using the standard installation method, historical data collection was configured for you automatically. If you are using the native IBM Tivoli Monitoring installer, then you must manually configure historical data collection.

You must configure history configuration to have the data from the monitored servers stored in the WAREHOUS database. This is a requirement if you plan to use Tivoli Common Reporting to view historical reports.

You can use the following steps to start data collection. In the steps, example values are used. Your selections depend on your criteria.

Procedure

  1. Start the Tivoli Enterprise Portal:
    AIX operating systems
    1. Open a web browser and specify the address of the server where the Tivoli Enterprise Portal was installed, similar to the following example: http://hostname:1920///cnp/kdh/lib/cnp.html

      where hostname is the server name and 1920///cnp/kdh/lib/cnp.html is the port and location of the Java™™ Tivoli Enterprise Portal web client.

  2. Log on to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal by using the sysadmin user ID, and the password that was specified during installation.
  3. From the Tivoli Enterprise Portal menu, click Edit > History Configuration.
  4. Specify collection settings by completing the following steps for each of the following attribute groups:
    • KSK CLIENT NODE STORAGE
    • KSK CLIENT MISSED FILES
    • KSK CLIENT NODE STATUS
    • KSK DATABASE
    • KSK SCHEDULE
    • KSK STORAGE POOL
    • KSK TAPE USAGE
    • KSK TAPE VOLUME
    • KSK NODE ACTIVITY
    • KSK SERVER
    • KSK STORAGE DEVICE
    • KSK ACTIVITY LOG
    • KSK OCCUPANCY
    • KSK REPLSTATUS (Listed as Replication Status)
    • KSK REPLDETAILS (Listed as Replication Details)
    • KSK ACTIVITY SUMMARY
    Tip: KSK denotes the Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager product code.
    1. Right-click Tivoli Storage Manager, and select Create new collection setting.
    2. Select an attribute group from the menu.
    3. Specify a name for the new collection setting, and optionally provide a description. As a best practice, include the attribute group in the name.
    4. In the Collection interval field, set the value to 1 hour. This value specifies how often the data is retrieved from the monitoring agent.
    5. In the Collection location field, select Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring server, TEMA. This server is where the historical data files are stored.
    6. In the Warehouse interval field, select 1 day for how often you want the warehouse data to store data. If you select 1 day, you cannot view reports for at least a day.
    Note: These settings are examples. Your selections depend on how often, and how much data you want to collect. To test the data that is collected, start with a short interval such as 1 hour. After you are sure that the data is being collected correctly, you can adjust the collection interval to every 12 or 24 hours.

    To verify that historical collection is activated, you can look for the History Configuration History configuration icon next to each attribute group.

  5. After the historical data collection settings are configured, complete the following steps to configure summarization and pruning of the data in the Tivoli Data Warehouse.
    Tip: Summarization combines multiple data points into a single data point across a date range such as a monthly or quarterly. Pruning removes older data that is no longer needed to save database space.
    1. Left-click on Tivoli Storage Manager to open the summarization and pruning settings window.
    2. Select all of the attributes that are configured for historical data collection. A blue icon next to the attribute group indicates that data collection is running.
    3. In the summarization settings, enable summarization for Yearly, Quarterly, Monthly, Weekly, Daily, and Hourly.
    4. In the Pruning section, you can also optionally enable pruning. By default no pruning is enabled. If your Tivoli Data Warehouse database size is growing too large, pruning older data can be enabled here for each attribute group.
    Note: Pruning too vigorously can result in no data, or not enough data being displayed in the Tivoli Common Reporting reports.