Upgrading to OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE V5.1

OMEGAMON® XE V5.1 monitoring agents require Tivoli® Management Services V6.2.1 or later.

If you upgrade from:

If you have installed an earlier version of Tivoli Management Services V6.2.1, you must, at least, upgrade the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server before you install your first V5.1 monitoring agent. In addition, any remote monitoring server through which a V5.1 OMEGAMON XE monitoring agent reports to the hub monitoring server must also be upgraded to Tivoli Management Services V6.2.1 or later.

The OMEGAMON XE V5.1 products support a staged migration. This means as you are migrating from OMEGAMON XE V4.1 or OMEGAMON XE V4.2 products to OMEGAMON XE V5.1 products, you may have a combination of V4.1, V4.2, and V5.1 monitoring agents installed in your environment. For example, you may have an OMEGAMON XE for DB2® PE monitoring agent V5.1 and an OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE monitoring agent V4.1 running in the same hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server environment during the migration period. Support of a mixed environment is provided as a migration help. Operators working in such a transitional environment should be aware of the following issues: