VMware VCENTER APPLICATION DISCOVERY MANAGER 6.1 - REPOSITORY Manuale Utente

Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager/Tivoli Business Service Manager Integration Solution Including a Virtual Center and a Monitore

4.1 TADDM 7.2.1 streaming deployment The TADDM streaming environment offers several key advantages over previous single system or enterprise sync-mo

11 Figure 2 TADDM Servers Summary The TADDM Servers Summary page can be seen by clicking Analytics then clicking TADDM Servers Summary. This

4.2 Discovery Library Toolkit (if003) With interim fix IF003, the TBSM toolkit can now load data directly from the TADDM database using a JDBC conn

13 5 Configuring the DLT for a JDBC connection Do the following process to configure TBSM DLT for a JDBC connection with TADDM. Transfer the

./taddmdirect.sh -enable -t DB2 -h obiwan.xyz.raleigh.ibm.com -d taddm -p 50000 -s db2inst1 Parameter descriptions: -t database type DB2 or ORACLE

15 6 Virtual center integration 6.1 TADDM discovery of virtual centers If you want to use TADDM to discover virtual centers (VC), this secti

Figure 4 TADDM Virtual Center Topology Figure 5 TBSM Virtual Center Service Viewer

17 In version 1.0 of this guide you had to perform steps to enable the virtual center sensor. In TADDM 7.2.1 you only have to run a level 2 or

included for new installations post IF003. Below is an SCR view for Virtual Center on the TBSM Tivoli Integrated Portal. Figure 8 TBSM Service Comp

19 7 Defining business services In version 1.0 of this guide the best practice was to use TBSM for defining business services. Using this meth

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7.1 Adding a TBSM created business service to TADDM Use the following procedure to add TBSM created business services to your configuration manageme

21 8 Creating a business service dashboard This section shows the steps you do to create the dashboard shown in figure 9. This includes the

8.1.1 Creating a Custom Server Template (CST) A custom server template contains descriptive criteria that are used to assign unknown server processe

23 When defining custom server templates, you can also capture key configuration files that are used by the application. In this example you col

8.1.2 Running a discovery to collect your CST objects Run a discovery selecting the hosts where your custom servers are located. Click Run Discov

25 8.1.3 Grouping Composer You can now create a grouping composer object using your custom server template CIs. 1. On the Data Management P

Figure 16 Grouping Composer General Information 6. Click the Rules tab. Complete the following information: Rule Name: StafNetwork (any name c

27 Figure 17 Grouping Composer Rules for STAF Important: The purpose of the check box on the Rules page is for your grouping composer objects

Figure 18 StafNetwork rule-based content 8.1.4 Grouping composer hierarchical example The following example is not part of the setup for STAF

29 Figure 19 Grouping Composer for Hierarchy 2. On the Content page, click Groups > Business Application 3. Under the Available list, sel

iii 8.2.1 Editing the rules file for custom applications ... 32 8.2.2 Running the DLT ...

Figure 20 Creating a Business Service containing Business Applications The previous steps explained how to create a hierarchical structure using the

31 8.1.5 Kickoff a Level 2 or Level 3 Discovery Figure 23 Hierarchy Topology in TADDM Avoid these characters in TADDM Group Names TAD

8.2 TBSM Configuration This section includes the TBSM configuration steps required to complete this solution. 8.2.1 Editing the rules file for cus

33 8.2.2 Running the DLT Run the TBSM DLT to transfer TADDM objects including the “ StafCST” custom server template and the business applicatio

8.2.5 Adding a Data Fetcher Figure 26 Data Fetcher Query for Application STAFfetcher SQL Query is set as follows: Select cntdepends as ct,‟staf‟ as

35 8.2.6 Data fetcher view results for staf custom server Figure 27 View Query Results 8.2.7 Create a template to be used by the Dashboard Se

Incoming status rule shown above must be added. Take the defaults on the first page and click OK. Figure 29 Incoming status rule selector Take the

37 Figure 30 Incoming status rule 8.2.8 Create a service which uses this template When creating the portlets in the next session you need a

Figure 31 TestSub uses the STAFRule Template

39 Figure 32 Set scrid filter for incoming status rule The TestSub service contains the template created in Figure 28 Create a Template. It th

11.2 Create a new Situation ... 71 11.3 Add the process command to identity

Set the service name to TestParent (this is the parent service) and set its dependent to the “TestSub” (the child service created above). Then save t

41 8.3 Portlet Creation Step by Step Now that all pre-requisite pieces are in place. It is time to create the dashboard for the STAF service. T

8.3.1 Create a new page From Settings > Page Management click New Page. Figure 36 Create a new custom page 8.3.2 Set portlet type to Service

43 Figure 38 View of new portlet

8.3.3 Save the page with name “staf-status” Figure 39 Saving the new portlet page When you create a new page, assign the operator roles and access

45 8.3.4 Edit the defaults for your new Service Tree Figure 40 Defaults Edit You need to edit the defaults (and/or preferences) to this p

8.3.5 Set starting instance to Business Application (STAF) Figure 41 Set STAF as the starting instance StafCST is the functional group name set in

47 8.3.7 Edit Page to add additional portlets Figure 43 Re-edit the page to create additional portlets 8.3.8 Perform a vertical split Figu

8.3.9 Choose AEL Portlet Figure 45 Choose a portlet type For the upper right portlet, select “Active Event List (AEL)” portlet, here you display t

49 8.3.10 Split both portlets Horizontally To complete the sample dashboard you need to split the both existing portlets horizontally now. Clic

v LIST OF FIGURES Figure 1: TADDM 7.2.1 Streaming configuration with TBSM ... 9 Figure 2

8.3.11 Save the new page again

51 8.3.12 Set context default preferences for lower right to the StafCST imported service Figure 47 Service Viewer for StafCST

8.3.13 Select viewer type to “Basic Relationships” This selection combined with the override settings of 1 up and 3 down displays a tree view for St

53 8.3.15 Lower Left portlet viewer type set to “Relationships” As this portlet is used to display an indicator or widget, it is not important

8.3.16 Remove all wires For this dashboard you want to remove all “default” wires. While editing the page select “show wires”. Uncheck all the check

55 From the service tree portlet click and drag the NodeClickedOn text hightlighted below and drag this to the AEL portlet on the right. Click “

“New” displays the view shown below: Figure 55 Defining a new service viewer using indicators

57 Click the desired indicator and click again in the portlet page to add it. Click on the view in the background which highlights it (shown in

Figure 58 Enter the visual representation for this indicator Figure 59 The indicator now contains count of STAF servers and the range (20)

59 If your image does not yet appear as shown above, and to set the name of the indicator it is necessary to edit the inspector panels. Clic

Figure 34 TBSM tree view of the dashboard service ... 40 Figure 35 Widget portion

Figure 60 Set displayName to “StafServers”

61 The lower left portlet should now appear as shown below: Figure 61 Complete widget dashboard In the example shown above we altered the cou

8.3.19 Selecting your indicator/widget type Figure 62 Widgets which support bi-directional negative status The widgets above allow you to assign n

63 9 Changing the State GIF Images Throughout this solution guide the service tree state GIF images have not been the defaults. As shown here:

Figure 65 Select Template name and Edit Policy

65 Figure 66 Edit Policy for gif’s As highlighted above the EmoticonBigSmile.gif and EmoticonCrying.gif are being used for events with rawValue

10 Time Window Analyzer for STAF TBSM Time Window Analyzer provides real time aggregate metrics for any KPI added to the TBSM metric history databas

67 Display the template used to gather the metric. Figure 68 Record Template Name and Rule Name From the TBSM data server change directory to

Figure 69 Time Window Analyzer for STAF services count (ct)

69 11 Tivoli Monitoring configuration (for STAF) Integrating monitoring events between IBM Tivoli Monitoring and TBSM. There are three steps

vii Figure 71 From the enterprise portal add a situation ... 70 Figure 72 Set

11.1 Create a situation event for STAF The following steps are performed on the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (TEPS). Right click on your Enterpr

71 11.2 Create a new Situation Click on new situation icon, and enter what is shown in the following images. Figure 72 Set the situation name

11.3 Add the process command to identity the STAF process Figure 73 Set Process command as shown The check for missing process command identifies S

73 11.4 Assign the situation to the systems where STAF runs Figure 74 Assign to ALL_UNIX For this solution STAF is assumed to be running onl

11.5 Set situation severity and target probe Figure 75 Set the EIF alert receiver

75 12 TADDM: Cleaning up dormant components Figure 76 Dormant Component Filter From the TADDM data management portal inventory summary

13 Summary Use TADDM to create and manage your business applications and services using the grouping composer. These groups are populated automatic

77 14.2 Appendix B. Information centers Products Information center TBSM data server, TBSM discovery library toolkit, Tivoli EIF Probe, Tiv

15 Notices This information was developed for products and services offered in the U.S.A. IBM may not offer the products, services, or features di

79 of the publication. IBM may make improvements and/or changes in the product(s) and/or the program(s) described in this publication at any tim

1 Introduction IBM® Tivoli® Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) and Tivoli Business Service Manager (TBSM) are designed to work togethe

This information contains examples of data and reports used in daily business operations. To illustrate them as completely as possible, the examples

9  Grouping Composer  Managing Dormant Components TBSM Steps  Rules file changes for Custom Server Templates  Data Source, Data Fetcher