IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases Release Notes Version 5.1.1 SC23-4851-00
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases Release Notes Version 5.1.1 SC23-4851-00
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Contents Release notes............ 1 Where to find the latest information...... 1 About IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases.... 1 System requirements............ 3 Supported operating systems........ 4 Disk space requirements......... 5 Publications.............. 6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases document library............... 6 Release Notes............ 6 Supplements............ 6 Installation Guide........... 7 User s Guides............ 7 Reference Guides........... 7 Accessing softcopy publications....... 8 CDs............... 8 Online.............. 8 Ordering publications.......... 8 Contacting software support........ 9 Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse implementation guides................ 9 Notices.............. 11 Trademarks.............. 13 iii
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Release notes These Release Notes provide the following important information about IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1. v Where to find the latest information about this product v About IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1 v System requirements v Publications v How to access Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse implementation guides Where to find the latest information To ensure you have the most up-to-date information about installation procedures and known workaround and limitations for this product, a regularly updated Limitations and Workarounds Supplement is made available using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases link on the Tivoli Information Center Web site: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/tdprodlist.html Make sure you consult this document before beginning any of the procedures in the installation or user guides since it contains the most current information for the product and takes precedence over all other product documentation. About IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases provides the following: v Eliminates the need for multiple disparate products from multiple vendors to manage your database environment. v Monitors critical components of your database environment using pre-configured resource models with built-in intelligence for problem identification, notification and correction and allows custom resource model creation and modification to support your changing business needs v Allows custom resource model creation and modification to pre-configured resource models to support your changing business needs. v Integrates with other IBM products for real-time and historical reporting, event correlation, and business impact analysis. Eliminates the need for multiple disparate monitoring products With the increase in enterprise-strategic applications and e-business systems, database resources have also spread geographically across many locations. The task of managing multiple database server types has become increasingly complex. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product addresses this concern by providing monitoring features for multiple types of database servers in one product. The value to you is the need for only one product that provides consistent, routine monitoring and that frees up your database administrators to focus on more complex, less repetitive types of tasks. The value to your business is cost-effective IT management, through the use of smart tools. 1
Monitors critical components of the database environment using intelligent resource models When monitoring database resources, there are many areas to consider, such as storage, performance, health checks and tuning, and status and availability. Any one, or any combination of these metrics can affect database system performance. For this reason, you need a systems management tool that puts you in control of what is monitored, when that monitoring occurs, and what should be done with the monitoring results. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product includes resource models that are made up of multiple metrics that monitor and report system health based on pre-defined settings (thresholds and monitoring intervals). The pre-configuration of the resource model metric settings provide quick time to value. The ability to change these metrics or to create custom resource models provides flexibility to support changing business needs and conditions. Integration with other IBM products The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product allows you to leverage your investments, both old and new, to build an end-to-end management solution. Through the use of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product as its monitoring engine, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product integrates with a common graphical user interface for real-time status reporting, a centralized data warehouse for historical reporting, and a common event management system for multi-resource problem correlation and reporting. Additionally, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product integrates with business analysis products that allow you to assess your compliance with service level agreements and the impact of down or compromised resources across your entire enterprise. The primary objective of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product is to provide routine, consistent monitoring and to anticipate and correct problems before database performance and customer confidence is degraded. Through the implementation of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, database administrators can expect to be alerted when key performance and resource allocation problems are detected and customers can expect to maximize their return on investment through increased efficiency of their information technology staff, improved compliance to service-level objectives, and reduced cost of database system administration and deployment. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product provides smart tools that put you in control of your environment. Allows co-existence with classic monitoring products The monitoring collections for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle can co-exist with the monitoring collections for the Tivoli Manager for DB2 and the Tivoli Manager for Oracle products. This allows dual support of both old and new database versions until your environment is completely upgraded to the latest version of the database software. Allows automated monitoring of business application software The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle allows you to customize certain resource models to monitor SAP and PeopleSoft application tables or specific tables or users that you define. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle provides a predefined set of tokens (keywords that 2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Release Notes
System requirements represent tables or users) to search for the appropriate PeopleSoft and SAP tables. The IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 provides similar monitoring of SAP application tables. Allows automation of repetitive tasks IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle allow you to automate repetitive database administration tasks. All you have to do is define the simple tasks once, then perform them on multiple databases and instances in a single action. Some of the tasks you can automate are: v Ensure space availability on log and data devices. v Run standard maintenance commands and check for corruption. v Check database and configuration settings. v Start and stop the IBM Replication Capture and Apply programs. v Provide general statistics about database objects. v Keep up-to-date recovery information. v Back up databases and log files. Provides out-of-box reports for rapid time to value With just 24 hours of data, IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2, IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix, IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle provide out-of-box reports (from the Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse) for key metrics to get you up and running and to demonstrate immediate value: v v v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 Percent Buffer Pool Hit Ratio, Number of Applications Currently Connected, Percent Connections Used, Percent Used in Primary Log, and Deadlocks Delta IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix Informix Health Check, Informix Thread Activity, Informix Disk Utilization, and Informix Logical Log IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server Database Space Used (FileGroup level), Database Average Percentage Used, Microsoft SQL Server Availability, Replication Agent Delivery latency, Microsoft SQL Server CPU Percentage Used, and Microsoft SQL Server Error Message Count. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle BufferCache Hit Ratio, Tablespace Usage, Deadlocks, Oracle RDBMS Availability, and Dispatcher Contention Allows selective logging to Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle allow you to select the key metrics of interest within a given resource model and to control which of these metrics are logged to the common data warehouse. For complete information about system requirements, including software and hardware requirements, for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, refer to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Installation and Setup Guide. Release notes 3
Supported operating systems This section lists the operating systems that work with managed nodes or endpoints for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases. Table 1. Supported operating systems for managed nodes Microsoft Supported operating systems for managed nodes Version DB2 SQL Informix Server Oracle 1 AIX 4.3.2 Yes Yes No Yes 2 4.3.3 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2, 3 5.1 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2 HP-UX 10.20 Yes Yes No Yes 11.00 Yes Yes No Yes 2, 3 11i Yes Yes Yes Yes 2, 3 Sun Solaris 2.7 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2, 3 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 2.8 Yes Yes Yes Yes 2, 3 Service Yes Yes Yes Yes 2, 3 Pack 6A Service Pack 1 Notes: 1. Oracle must run in 32-bit or 64-bit mode for this product. 2. Oracle Enterprise/Standard Edition, Version 8.1.7 is supported 3. Oracle Enterprise/Standard Edition, Version 9i is supported Yes Yes Yes Yes 2, 3 Table 2. Supported operating systems for endpoints Supported operating systems for endpoints Version DB2 Informix Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 1 AIX 4.3.3, 5.1 Yes Yes No Yes HP-UX 11.00 Yes Yes No Yes 11i Yes No No Yes Sun Solaris 2.7 Yes Yes 4 No Yes 2, 3 Windows NT 4.0 Windows 2000 2.8 Yes No No Yes 2, 3 Service Yes Yes Yes Yes 2, 3 Pack 6A Service Pack 1 Yes No Yes Yes 2, 3 Windows XP ProfessionalYes 5 No No Yes 3 Linux (including Red Hat, TurboLinux, and SuSE) 2.4 Kernel on Windows Intel Yes No No Yes 2, 3 4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Release Notes
Table 2. Supported operating systems for endpoints (continued) Supported operating systems for endpoints Version DB2 Informix Notes: 1. Oracle must run in 32-bit or 64-bit mode for this product. 2. Oracle Enterprise/Standard Edition, Version 8.1.7 is supported 3. Oracle Enterprise/Standard Edition, Version 9i is supported 4. Informix Dynamic Server 7.31 only is supported 5. Does not include support of DB2 Extended Enterprise Edition (EEE) Microsoft SQL Server Oracle 1 Disk space requirements This section lists the estimated disk space requirements for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1 components and IBM Tivoli Component Services, Version 5.1.1. Table 3. Estimated disk space requirements for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle Platform Tivoli Management Region Server Endpoint with component services AIX 115MB 20MB HP-UX 150MB 16MB Solaris 150MB 15MB Windows 165MB 23MB Linux Unsupported 27MB Table 4. Estimated disk space requirements for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 Platform Tivoli Management Region Server Endpoint with component services AIX 60MB 26MB HP-UX 66MB 14MB Solaris 65MB 18MB Windows 46MB 6MB Linux 49MB 9MB Table 5. Estimated disk space requirements for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix Platform Tivoli Management Region Server All platforms 10MB 14MB Endpoint with component services Table 6. Estimated disk space requirements for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server Platform Tivoli Management Region Server Endpoint with component services AIX 115MB Not applicable HP-UX 150MB Not applicable Solaris 150MB Not applicable Release notes 5
Table 6. Estimated disk space requirements for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server (continued) Platform Tivoli Management Region Server Windows 165MB 23MB Endpoint with component services Table 7. Estimated disk space requirements for IBM Tivoli Component Services Platform AIX HP-UX Solaris Windows Linux Tivoli Management Region Server 65MB 65MB 65MB 45MB 45MB Publications This section contains the following information regarding IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases documentation: v Documentation library contents v Accessing softcopy publications v Ordering publications v Contacting software support IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases document library This section lists publications in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases library. It also describes how to access Tivoli publications online, and how to order Tivoli publications. Release Notes The following publication is available for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1: v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases Release Notes, SC23-4851 Provides information about product features, supported operating systems and estimated disk space requirements. Supplements The following publications are available for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1: v v v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 Limitations and Workarounds Supplement, SC09-7781 Provides the latest information about known limitations and workarounds for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2, Version 5.1.0. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix Limitations and Workarounds Supplement, SC09-7780 Provides the latest information about known limitations and workarounds for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix, Version 5.1.0. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server Limitations and Workarounds Supplement, SC23-4850 6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Release Notes
v Provides the latest information about known limitations and workarounds for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Version 5.1.1. IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle Limitations and Workarounds Supplement, SC09-7779 Provides the latest information about known limitations and workarounds for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle, Version 5.1.0. Installation Guide The following publication is available for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1: v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Installation and Setup Guide, SC23-4854 Provides information about installing and configuring the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases product. User s Guides The following publications are available for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1: v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 User s Guide, SC23-4726 Provides information about how to manage DB2 resources with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2, Version 5.1.0. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix User s Guide, SC23-4729 Provides information about how to manage Informix resources with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix, Version 5.1.0. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server User s Guide, SC23-4853 Provides information about how to manage Microsoft SQL Server resources with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle User s Guide, SC23-4723 Provides information about how to manage Oracle resources with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle, Version 5.1.0. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle User Management Guide, GC23-4731 Describes how to use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle User Management application to manage Oracle users, roles, and resource profiles for Oracle databases in Version 5.1.0. Reference Guides The following publications are available for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1: v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2 Reference Guide, SC23-4727 Provides information about the tasks, resource models, and commands used with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: DB2, Version 5.1.0. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix Reference Guide, SC23-4728 Provides information about the tasks, resource models, and commands used with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Informix, Version 5.1.0. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server Reference Guide, SC23-4852 Provides information about the tasks, resource models, and commands used with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Microsoft SQL Server, Version 5.1.1. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle Reference Guide, SC23-4724 Provides information about the tasks, resource models, and commands used with IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Oracle, Version 5.1.0. Release notes 7
Accessing softcopy publications You can access publications for this product from documentation CDs or online in PDF and HTML formats: CDs The following documentation CDs provide publications for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1: Documentation CD, LK3T-8517 The documentation CD contains the publications that are in the product library. The format of the publications is PDF, HTML, or both. Refer to the readme file on the CD for instructions on how to access the documentation. v IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases, Version 5.1.1: NLS Documentation CD, LK3T-8584 The NLS (national language support) documentation CD contains both English and non-english language publications for this product, except for the Web-only limitations and workarounds supplements. Refer to the readme file on the CD for instructions on how to access the documentation. Online The following Web sites provide publications for IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: v Tivoli Information Center IBM posts publications for this and all other Tivoli products, as they become available and whenever they are updated, to the Tivoli Software Information Center Web site. The Tivoli Software Information Center is located at the following Web address: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/tdprodlist.html v Click the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases link to access the product library. Passport Advantage Passport Advantage is an IBM licensing program for distributed software. You can download documentation files from Passport Advantage if you enroll in the program. When you enroll in the program, you are assigned a user name and password with which to access the files. You can access Passport Advantage at the following Web address: http://www-3.ibm.com/software/passportadvantage/ All downloadable parts of IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases are self-extracting archives. You can log in to Passport Advantage with your assigned user name and password and download any required and optional parts. Ordering publications You can order many Tivoli publications online at the following Web site: wwww.elink.ibmlink.ibm.com/public/applications/publications/cgibin/pbi.cgi You can also order by telephone by calling one of these numbers: v In the United States: 800-879-2755 v In Canada: 800-426-4968 8 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases: Release Notes
In other countries see the following Web site for a list of telephone numbers: http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/order-lit/ Contacting software support If you have a problem with any Tivoli product, refer to the following IBM Software Support Web site: http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/ If you want to contact customer support, see the IBM Software Support Guide at the following Web site: http://techsupport.services.ibm.com/guides/handbook.html The guide provides information about how to contact IBM Software Support, depending on the severity of your problem, and the following information: v Registration and eligibility v v Telephone numbers and e-mail addresses, depending on the country in which you are located Information you must have before contacting IBM Software Support Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse implementation guides Access the updated implementation guides for Tivoli Enterprise Data Warehouse warehouse enablement packs on the Tivoli Information Center Web site: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/tividd/td/tdprodlist.html Release notes 9
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