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ITM Agent for Amazon EC2

Gaining Visibility and Control over Dynamic Amazon EC2 Virtualization Environments

Blue Medora's ITM Agent for Amazon EC2 provides additional monitoring and management of applications. Blue Medora’s Amazon Web Services (AWS) focused products extend ITM by providing automatic discovery, deeply integrated monitoring, performance tracking, and remote management capabilities for Amazon EC2 based virtual server infrastructure.  IT administrators can quickly and easily set up complex monitoring scenarios that, when combined with ITM-based Situations, Take-Actions, and Policies, can be used to implement automated workflows that provide alerts for scenarios such as when critical Amazon cloud resources are unreachable or responding slowly.

Features
The Amazon EC2 Agent remotely monitors the following categories of Amazon EC2 metrics:
 
  • Instance CPU Utilization
  • Instance Network Utilization
  • Instance Disk Utilization
  • Aggregate Instances CPU Utilization
  • Storage Volumes
  • Aggregate Network Utilization
  • Aggregate Disk Utilization
  • CloudWatch Enablement
  • Instance Uptime
  • Snapshot Usage
  • Elastic IPs


The Blue Medora ITM Agent for Amazon EC2 includes comprehensive remote management of Amazon EC2 resources through ITM Take-Actions. Take-Actions can perform the following management actions:
 
  • Reboot Instance
  • Stop Instance
  • Start Instance
  • Enabled CloudWatch for Instance
  • Disable CloudWatch for Instance
  • Start All Instances
  • Stop All Instances
  • Enable CloudWatch All Instances
  • Disable CloudWatch All Instances


ITM Agent for Amazon EC2 Workspace as viewed in the TEP


Blue Medora's ITM Agent for Amazon EC2:

  • 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 V6.2.1
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring V.6.2.2

Operating System Support

  •  Windows 2003 Server SE (32 bit) with Service Pack 1 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 9 for Intel
  •  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for zSeries 31-bit
  •  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for zSeries 64-bit
  •  SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 for pSeries
  •  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.