Front cover -- Contents -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Chapter 1. Familiarizing yourself with this guide -- 1.1 Certification -- 1.1.1 Tivoli Enterprise Management Solution: Advanced deployment -- 1.1.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 5.1.1: Deployment -- 1.2 Test objectives -- 1.2.1 Prerequisite knowledge for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 1.2.2 Planning the implementation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 1.2.3 Installation prerequisites of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 1.2.4 Installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 1.2.5 Configuration of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server -- 1.2.6 Problem determination for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 1.2.7 Operations of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 1.2.8 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Workbench -- 1.3 Resources for preparation -- 1.3.1 Courses -- 1.3.2 Publications -- Chapter 2. Basic concepts for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 2.1 Desktop Management Task Force -- 2.1.1 Common Information Model standards -- 2.1.2 Managed Object Format -- 2.1.3 Web-Based Enterprise Management initiative -- 2.2 Windows Management Instrumentation -- 2.3 Java and JavaBeans -- 2.4 WebSphere Application Server -- 2.5 Visual Basic and JavaScript -- 2.5.1 Visual Basic -- 2.5.2 JavaScript -- 2.6 Database concepts -- 2.7 IBM Tivoli Management Framework -- 2.7.1 Tivoli Management Environment -- 2.7.2 Tivoli desktop -- 2.7.3 Resources -- 2.7.4 Policy and policy regions -- 2.7.5 Administrator and roles -- 2.7.6 Profiles and profile managers -- 2.7.7 RDBMS interface module -- 2.7.8 MDist 2 distribution -- 2.7.9 Command line interface -- 2.8 IBM Tivoli Monitoring concepts -- 2.8.1 Integration with the Common Information Model -- 2.8.2 Resource model -- Chapter 3. Planning for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 deployment -- 3.1 Environment and topology.

3.2 Existing management environment -- 3.2.1 Tivoli Management Framework requirement -- 3.2.2 Available installation methods -- 3.2.3 Hardware requirements -- 3.3 Endpoint software verification -- 3.4 Health Console planning -- 3.5 Data Warehouse planning -- 3.6 Workbench development requirements -- Chapter 4. Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 4.1 Migrating from Tivoli Distributed Monitoring V4.1 -- 4.2 Installing on an existing Tivoli environment -- 4.3 Configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring endpoints -- 4.3.1 Java Runtime Environment -- 4.3.2 Windows-based endpoint setup -- 4.4 Installing the Web Health Console -- 4.4.1 Installing on a Windows environment -- 4.4.2 Installing on a UNIX environment -- 4.4.3 Installing the monitoring modules -- 4.5 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Workbench -- Chapter 5. Configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 server -- 5.1 Configuring the Tivoli environment -- 5.2 Configuring the IBM Tivoli Monitoring profiles -- 5.2.1 Customizing the cycle time and thresholds -- 5.2.2 Customizing the indications -- 5.2.3 Customizing the scheduler -- 5.2.4 Customizing data logging -- 5.2.5 Customizing parameters -- 5.2.6 Customizing a profile -- 5.3 Resource models -- 5.4 Historical data collection -- 5.5 Heartbeat function -- 5.5.1 Endpoint registration -- 5.5.2 Heartbeat monitoring -- 5.5.3 Viewing the endpoint cache -- 5.5.4 Useful commands -- 5.6 TBSM common listener -- 5.7 Event forwarding to TEC -- 5.7.1 Setting up the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 profile -- 5.7.2 Enabling IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console -- Chapter 6. Problem determination for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 6.1 TMR server logs and traces -- 6.1.1 Profile distribution process -- 6.2 Gateway logs and traces -- 6.2.1 Heartbeat engine traces -- 6.2.2 Task engine trace -- 6.2.3 Endpoint upcall traces -- 6.2.4 Request manager trace -- 6.2.5 Profile core trace.

6.3 Endpoint logs -- 6.3.1 Common endpoint logs -- 6.3.2 Windows endpoint logs -- 6.3.3 Non-Windows endpoint logs -- 6.4 Web Health Console logs and traces -- 6.4.1 Modifying Web Health Console tracing parameters -- 6.4.2 WebSphere tracing -- 6.5 Tools -- 6.5.1 Tool to generate XML file -- 6.5.2 Serviceability tasks -- 6.6 Helpful troubleshooting procedures -- 6.6.1 Profile distribution problems -- 6.6.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring engine troubleshooting -- 6.6.3 Resolving resource model problems -- Chapter 7. Operating IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 -- 7.1 MDist profile distribution -- 7.1.1 MDist2 support -- 7.1.2 Profile distribution using MDist2 -- 7.1.3 TMF MDist2 commands -- 7.2 Maintaining the Tivoli environment -- 7.2.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.1.1 command line -- 7.2.2 Heartbeat maintenance -- 7.2.3 Managing profiles -- 7.2.4 Managing resource models -- 7.3 Web Health Console usage -- 7.3.1 Logging on to the Web Health Console -- 7.3.2 The Web Health Console main view -- 7.3.3 The Endpoint List View -- 7.3.4 The Resource Model List View -- Chapter 8. IBM Tivoli Monitoring Workbench -- 8.1 Using the Workbench -- 8.2 Elements of a resource model -- 8.3 Looking at PhysicalDiskModel -- 8.3.1 Properties of PhysicalDiskModel -- 8.3.2 Dynamic model element of PhysicalDiskModel -- 8.3.3 Event element of PhysicalDiskModel -- 8.3.4 Threshold element of PhysicalDiskModel -- 8.3.5 Logging element of PhysicalDiskModel -- 8.3.6 Decision tree script of PhysicalDiskModel -- 8.4 Working with a resource model in Workbench -- Appendix A. Sample test questions -- Sample test questions -- Answers to sample test questions -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Other publications -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.