Tivoli Monitoring

 
Tivoli monitoring software is currently installed on all production OIT UNIX and Windows NT servers.  It is monitoring a set of system performance and health indicators,  with the thresholds set by the system administrators who are directly responsible for those systems.  Several applications are also being monitored by Tivoli, including the Maestro scheduler, the Ontime calendar server, and the Blackboard Web server.

Future plans are to extend Tivoli monitoring to Oracle databases, mail service,  and to administrative applications.

Current Tivoli events

A Web display of current Tivoli monitoring events is available at http://www.princeton.edu/~tivoli/events.html.

A composite display showing summaries by class and status, and highlighting long-lasting events is at http://www.princeton.edu/~tivoli/console.html

See the Daily Event Report for a summary of yesterday's monitoring events. Previous days' reports can be accessed at http://www.princeton.edu/~tivoli.

Monitoring configuration

See Tivoli Hosts for a list of hosts being monitored by Tivoli.

See Tivoli Monitoring for detailed information about exactly what is being monitored, and what monitoring facilities are available.

Web server monitoring

Tivoli can monitor a web server by regularly retrieving a selected page and testing that the correct data is being returned. In case of an error, a message will be sent to the administrator's e-mail or pager. See Web Server Monitoring for more details.

Presentations

Enterprise Systems Management. EDUCAUSE, October 2001

Monitoring Hosts and Applications with Tivoli. Internal presentation, June 2001.

Implementing Tivoli at Princeton. Planet Tivoli, May 2001

Updated: January 15, 2002