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OMNIbus Self-Monitoring: At last!

Introduction Those familiar with the Netcool product suite will be aware that Impact has included the feature for “self-monitoring” for some time. This enables Key Performance Indicators for runtime performance to be collected and analysed, for example memory usage and event queue size. Alerts are generated based on pre-defined thresholds. Similar features have now been […]

Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for SCOM: Out with the old and in with the new

The original version of the Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for SCOM 2007 proved somewhat troublesome to configure, specifically the communication that required the set-up of SSL certificates. Thankfully the latest version relies on standard Kerberos authentication and so configuration is much simplified. The Netcool/OMNIbus Probes for SCOM (there are versions to support SCOM2007 and SCOM2012) collect alarms […]

ITM Centralized Configuration and the Log File Agent

Some time ago I wrote about the Centralized Configuration feature of IBM Tivoli Monitoring.  Introduced in version 6.2.2 Fixpack 2, this feature provides ITM agents with a pull-based mechanism that enables them to dynamically obtain configuration files, such as private situations and situation thresholds from a central source.  The central source can be another ITM […]