Integrating IBM Director With IBM Tivoli Monitoring

The IBM Director integration into IBM Tivoli Monitoring provides IBM Director customers with access to the complete Tivoli Enterprise management environment. IBM Tivoli Monitoring is a dynamic, end-to-end monitoring solution for proactively managing the performance and availability of the entire IT infrastructure. It monitors IT resources across the enterprise in an agent-oriented or agent-less fashion. IBM Director customers can perform hardware monitoring on IBM servers today. With this integration, IBM Director customers get access to an extensive end-to-end (zSeries to Windows, Linux, AIX platforms) and top - to-bottom (hardware through resources and transactions to business service based composite applications) monitoring view. This paper discusses how the IBM Director is integrated into IBM Tivoli Monitoring value of this integration for customers.