IBM Tivoli
IBM Tivoli has been a key infrastructure solution for many administrators for years. It can be hard to make the move to vRealize as the primary monitoring tool when there is years of information still on Tivoli. Fortunately, the management pack for IBM Tivoli can bring back all the data that has been collected in IBM Tivoli straight into vRealize Operations.
There are many scenarios that may lead an administrator to bring data from Tivoli to vROps. The one mentioned in the previous paragraph is just one example. Another reason to use the management pack for IBM Tivoli is to support a technology that is not supported by a vRealize management pack but is supported by an agent in Tivoli. Either way, the administrator can bring any workload monitored by IBM Tivoli and display it in vRealize Operations.
Once these workloads are inside of vROps, the administrator can monitor them like they would any other management pack. The first thing we will want to investigate is performance. Let...