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Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe allows customers to optimize their existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) infrastructure by providing a high capacity ping functionality for any host on their network that supports ICMP based pinging including switches, routers, servers, and other TCP/IP enabled devices.

Features and Benefits

With Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe, you gain the ability to perform ITM based pings against thousands of hosts.   Key characteristics of the Agent include:

  • Global ping configuration options for Ping timeout, Ping retry attempts, and "Slow" threshold
  • Is 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 environments
  • Highly configurable allowing many thousands of hosts to be added to the "host file" or via standard ITM agent configuration panels
Screenshot: Ping Probe ITM Agent as viewed in the ITM Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP)

ITM Ping Probe Primary Node as viewed ITM TEPS

Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe has been designed from the ground up to look, feel, and operate like existing IBM-developed ITM agents in terms of ITM remote deployment, manageability via ITM command-line utilities, and installation and configuration.

When combined with the TCR Report Package for the Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe administrators are able to quickly and easily generate high level reports detailing the overall availability of their environment over days, weeks, months and years as well as drill down to the availability of individual hosts to determine when specific outages are occurring.

Blue Medora 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 Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) and Netcool OMNIbus for advanced correlation and automation.

  • Is validated by IBM as Ready for IBM Tivoli.
Requirements

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

Blue Medora ITM Agents require a pre-existing IBM published agent be installed prior to Blue Medora ITM Agent installation.  The Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe does not ship IBM specific Java™,  IBM GSkit, or the IBM Tivoli Monitoring runtime libraries. Installing an IBM-provided agent (normally an OS agent) installs these elements.

Licensing Details

The Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe is a Blue Medora Category B Remote Utility Agent.  Please refer to the How to Buy page for pricing details of Blue Medora Category B Remote Utility Agents.

Ready for Tivoli Validation

  Is the product Ready for Tivoli validated?   Yes    

Product Screenshots
Video Demonstration

Tivoli Common Reporting - Report Package

Tivoli Common Reporting report package available?  Yes 

 

Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe TCR Report Package includes a set of historical reports, reporting against summarized data collected in the Tivoli Data Warehouse of IBM Tivoli Monitoring. The reports are designed to run against the Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe v6.2.0.

Example Ping Probe TCR reports can be viewed here:

Ping Probe Availability of a Single Host - Daily Detailed

Ping Probe Availability Overview - Weekly Detailed

Ping Probe Availability Overview -  Year to Date

Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe TCR report package is available free of charge to any customer who has licensed Blue Medora Agent for Ping Probe.