User's Guide

Enabling Monitoring of Events and Heartbeat Messages on the Tivoli Enterprise Console Server

To enable monitoring of Tivoli Monitoring events on a Tivoli Enterprise Console server, you need to import the Tivoli Monitoring BAROC files into the rule base used by the Tivoli Enterprise Console server.

To accomplish this you need to either follow the procedure detailed below, or run the Tivoli-provided script that carries out the procedure steps for you:

Running the script

A script has been provided to enable you to update the rule base in a semi-automatic way. The script is named dmae_tec_inst.sh, and is stored in the $BINDIR/TMNT_TEC directory.

The script must be run on the Tivoli Enterprise Console server. It takes as an argument the name of the rule_base of the Tivoli Enterprise Console server where the BAROC rules are to be stored. You can also optionally specify the parameter -restartsvr to restart the server at the end of the script.

Following the procedure

If you do not want to run the script, you can follow the individual steps that the script performs, which are detailed in the procedure set out below. For full information about performing each step of the procedure, refer to the Tivoli Enterprise Console Rule Builder's Guide.

Perform the following steps:

1. Select an existing rule base or create a new rule base to contain the Tivoli Monitoring BAROC files.
2. Import the required BAROC files from the $BINDIR/TMNT_TEC directory into the rule base.

   It is important that you import the files in the following order:

   1. Import the Tmw2k.baroc file. For more information about it, see the Tivoli Enterprise Console Rule Builder's Guide.
   2. Import the BAROC files for all the resource models whose events you want to send to Tivoli Enterprise Console server.
   3. Import the hb_events.baroc file to enable heartbeat messages.
3. Import the required heartbeat rules file from the $BINDIR/TMNT_TEC directory into the rule base to enable the support of heartbeat messages. The file is called hb_events.rls.
4. Import the required clearing event rules file from the $BINDIR/TMNT_TEC directory into the rule base to enable clearing events to close the error events to which they relate. The file is called dmae_events.rls. If you omit this step, the Tivoli Enterprise Console server will not close related error events, and the clearing event will be displayed.
5. Compile and load the rule base.
6. Stop and restart the Tivoli Enterprise Console server.

The Tivoli Enterprise Console server is now ready to receive Tivoli Monitoring events from the monitoring sources whose corresponding BAROC files you have imported into the active rule base.

To see the events sent by Tivoli Monitoring, from the Tivoli Enterprise Console main dialog, click the All icon. See the Tivoli Enterprise Console: User's Guide for more details.

Note:

The BAROC available with Tivoli Monitoring 5.1 can also be used with Tivoli Distributed Monitoring (Advanced Edition) 4.1 or with Tivoli Distributed Monitoring for Windows 3.7 Patch 3.