1. Planning an IBM Tivoli Monitoring implementation
- Overview and references
- Architecture and components
- Design process
- Deployment and availability
- Preparing for the installation
- Component interoperability and upgrades
2. Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure
- Preparing for installation
- The Startup Center
- Installing monitoring servers
- Installing portal server components
- Installing the portal client
- Post-installation tasks
3. Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents
- Introduction to installing and configuring agents
- Prerequisite checker for operating system agents
- Remote installation
- Installing agents remotely from the command line
- Self-describing agents
- Silent installation
- Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases DB2 Agent
4. Configuring and managing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents
- Agent configuration
- Using the portal client to manage agents
- Troubleshooting agent deployment
5. Jazz for Service Management and Tivoli Monitoring Dashboards
- Jazz for Service Management Overview
- Installing Jazz for Service Management
- Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server
- Installing the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Dashboard
- Verifying Jazz for Service Management
- Verifying Tivoli Monitoring Dashboard
6. Maintaining IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Working with monitoring components
- Data backup and restore
- Maintenance
- Monitoring server and self-monitoring
7. Integrated event management
- Overview of integrated event management
- Netcool/OMNIbus integration
- Tivoli Enterprise Console integration
- Event forwarding on z/OS
8. Configuring availability in IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- Goals of resiliency and high availability
- Heartbeats
- Clustering
- Hot standby overview
- Monitoring agent and remote monitoring server failover
- Portal server in the failover scenario
- Troubleshooting options
9. Security for IBM Tivoli Monitoring
- User authentication
- Infrastructure component communication security
- Secure Socket Layer
- Firewall considerations with Tivoli Monitoring
- Granular authorization
- Single sign-on
- Additional security topics