OMEGAMON® XE
V5.1 monitoring agents require Tivoli® Management
Services V6.2.1 or later.
If you upgrade from:
- OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE V4.1, you
must install Tivoli Management
Services V6.2.1 or later.
- OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE V4.2 and
you have already installed Tivoli Management
Services V6.2.1 or later, it is not required to upgrade Tivoli Management Services.
If you have installed an earlier version of Tivoli Management Services V6.2.1, you must,
at least, upgrade the hub Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server before you install your first V5.1 monitoring agent.
In addition, any remote monitoring server through which a V5.1 OMEGAMON XE monitoring agent
reports to the hub monitoring server must also be upgraded to Tivoli Management Services V6.2.1
or later.
The OMEGAMON XE V5.1
products support a staged migration. This means as you are migrating
from OMEGAMON XE V4.1 or OMEGAMON XE V4.2 products to OMEGAMON XE V5.1 products,
you may have a combination of V4.1, V4.2, and V5.1 monitoring agents
installed in your environment. For example, you may have an OMEGAMON XE for DB2® PE monitoring agent V5.1 and an OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE monitoring agent V4.1 running in the same
hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server environment during the migration period. Support of a mixed
environment is provided as a migration help. Operators working in
such a transitional environment should be aware of the following issues:
- The product information you see in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal reflects the level
of code running on the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal, not the level of code running on the monitoring agent.
This means if you are monitoring a system running a V5.1 monitoring
agent, the workspaces and attributes available for monitoring and
for creating situations accurately reflect V5.1. However, when you
are monitoring a system running a backlevel monitoring agent, the
information you see in the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal still reflects V5.1. This potentially misleading information
can be seen in flyovers, full-text help, and information provided
in the situation editor.
- You can use the predefined dynamic workspace links provided by
V5.1 agents to link from an OMEGAMON XE
V5.1 workspace to the workspace of another OMEGAMON XE V4.1 or OMEGAMON XE V4.2 product as long as the
target workspace exists in the product. If the target workspace does
not exist, you will receive message KFWITM081E.
- In cases where the V5.1 of the target workspace has been modified
(for example, HTML links added to some workspaces) you may notice
a different behavior when you migrate the target product from V4.1
or V4.2 to V5.1. For example, the V4.1 of the DB2 workspace does not have HTML links, while
V4.2 and V5.1 of the DB2 workspace
provide HTML links.
- All user interfaces (except for the Configuration Tool and Install
Shield) provided with Tivoli Enterprise
Portal version 6.2 or later and the OMEGAMON XE
version 4.1 or later monitoring agents are globalized. As a result,
workspaces in OMEGAMON XE
version 4.1 and higher are displayed in the specified language (for
example, Spanish or Chinese).