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ITM Agent for Ping Probe

Gaining Visibility Into Enterprise Network Availability

ITM Agent for Ping Probe from Blue Medoraprovides the ability to perform ITM-based availability checking (pings) against thousands of network hosts, including switches, routers, servers, and other TCP/IP enabled devices.

Business Benefits

Monitors availability of critical network hardware reducing length of downtime. Maximizes network uptime by identifying suspect hardware that is failing intermittently.

Features

  • Global ping configuration options for Ping timeout, Ping retry attempts, and "Slow" threshold
  • Easily scaled to ping many thousands of hosts via multiple Agent instances, polling intervals, and a option to specify the concurrent number of pings to be performed
  • "Per host" Configurable timeout values that allow administrators to tailor the ping scans for their particular environment
  • Ability to distinguish Hosts that are Up, Down, Responding Slowly, or not Resolvable in DNS along with specific TEP-based workspaces that drill down into each of those categories
  • Summarized statistics and TEP-based workspaces indicating both the total number of Hosts that are Up, Down, Responding Slowly, or not Resolvable as well as the Percentage of each
  • Highly configurable allowing many thousands of hosts to be added to the "host file" or via standard ITM agent configuration panels

Common uses of the Ping Probe Agent

  • How many of hosts are currently DOWN?
  • What portions of a network are experiencing slowness?
  • What percentage of hosts are reachable and responding with an acceptable response time?
  • What percentage of monitored hosts were available 100% of the time last month?
  • Which hosts are experiencing intermittent network connectivity issues?
  • How do ping response times compare from various customer geographies?
ITM Agent for Ping Probe Workspace as viewed from the TEP

Blue Medora's ITM Agent for Ping Probe

  • Takes advantage of ITM's Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) visualization capabilities to include best practices, expert advice, customized workspaces, and historical data gathering
  • Integrates with Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW) to provide ITDS-focused historical data collection and analysis
  • Provides the ability to send application-specific events to the Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) and Netcool OMNIbus for advanced correlation and automation

Versions of IBM Tivoli Monitoring Supported

  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.1
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V.6.2.2

Operating System Support

  • AIX 5.3 (64 bit)
  • AIX 6.1 (64 bit)
  • Solaris V9 (SPARC) (32/64 bit)
  • Solaris V10 (SPARC) (64 bit)
  • Solaris V10 (x86-64) on AMD Opteron
  • HP-UX 11.23 and 11.31 on Itanium2
  • Windows 2003 Server SE (32 bit) with Service Pack1 or higher
  • Windows 2003 Server EE (32 bit) with Service Pack 1 or higher
  • Windows 2003 Server (64 bit) with Service Pack 1 or higher
  • Windows 2003 Server EE (64 bit) 
  • Windows Server 2003 Datacenter Edition
  • Windows Server 2008 SE (32 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 EE (32 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 SE (64 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 EE (64 bit)
  • Windows Server 2008 Data Center
  • Windows Server 2008 Data Center (64 bit)
  • Red Hat Enterprise and Desktop Linux 4 for Intel
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for AMD64/EM64T
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4 for pSeries
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 for z/Series 31-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 4.0 for z/Series 64-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for AMD64/EM64T
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5 for pSeries
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 for z/Series 31-bit
  • Red Hat Enterprise Linux 5.0 for z/Series 64-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for Intel
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for zSeries 31-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for zSeries 64-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 10 for pSeries
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for Intel
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for zSeries 31-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for zSeries 64-bit
  • SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 11 for pSeries

Requirement for pre-existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent

To install any Blue Medora ITM Agent you must have at least one pre-existing IBM published agent installed.  Blue Medora Agents do not include key IBM specific Java",  IBM GSkit, or the IBM Tivoli Monitoring runtime libraries. Installing an IBM-provided agent (normally the OS agent) installs these elements.


 

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