IBM Monitoring 8.1.3 Implementation and Administration

Introduction to IBM Monitoring

• Overview and architecture
• Monitoring agents and categories
• Application based monitoring
• Monitoring agent examples
• Integrating with IBM Performance Management
• The IBM Monitoring lab environment

Installation

• Overview of installation
• Prerequisites and the prerequisite checker
• Installing the Performance Management Server
• Installing IBM Monitoring agents

Administer and use IBM Performance Management

• Starting and stopping the Performance Management Server
• Starting and stopping agents
• Starting the Performance Management Console
• Managing applications
• Using attribute details to access data from an agent
• Configure and use the Log File Agent
• Managing users of the Performance Management Console

Managing events and thresholds

• Events
• Threshold Manager
• Resource Group Manager

Integrating IBM Monitoring with other products

• Integrating IBM Tivoli Monitoring
• Bluemix integration
• Netcool/OMNIbus integration
• Event notification
• Integrating with IBM Alert Notification
• IBM Operations Analytics — Log Analysis integration
• Integrating with IBM Operations Analytics — Predictive Insights
• Dashboard Application Services Hub with IBM Performance Management agent data
• Integrate with IBM Control Desk

Reporting and 7-day comparison

• Historical 7-day comparison
• Reporting