IBM Tivoli

Project:
Setup a IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment based on IBM Tivoli Live Software as Service

Brief Description:
In the context of IBM Tivoli Live, infrastructure health and performance monitoring is provided without the need to deploy additional hardware and software.

This offering takes a handful of onsite Tivoli management offerings (in particular, monitoring offerings) and bundles them as service from the cloud. This is a specific instance of IT management as SaaS.

Objective:
The objective of this project is to setup a set of IT resources (machines with supported Operating systems) inside an NCSU network and utilize the following offerings from the Tivoli Live suite:
1. Touchless monitoring : Setup a touchless monitoring agent for Operating system to monitor the IT machines and monitor the following two metrics:
a. CPU utilization
b. Memory

2. Write a Universal Agent data collector which runs on each IT machine that will report the performance monitoring data to Tivoli Live User interface and performs the following:
a. Collects the CPU utilization data
b. Collects the Memory monitoring data
c. Sets up situation event rules; an example of such a rule is to "raise an alert event when CPU utilization exceeds 50%".
d. Reports the monitoring data to Tivoli Live cloud
e. Visualizes the monitoring data on the Tivoli Live UI portal.

The development and test environment will use IBM Tivoli Live Cloud offerings supplied by the Tivoli division of IBM and IT machines supplied by NCSU.

Deliverables:
The students will be required to: (a) define a functional specification, (b) develop a test plan that verifies the successful monitoring of a variety of IT machines (different operating systems, (c) execute the test plan, (d) demo their application, and, (e) write a short user guide.

Student Benefits:
Through this project, the students will gain knowledge and acquire skills in the following areas:
a. Setting up a Cloud-based monitoring environment and providing an enterprise-level solution to monitor critical IT assets.
b. Development of industrial quality functional specifications and testing plans.
c. Development of Universal Agent for IBM Tivoli Monitoring product to monitor key enterprise IT assets.
d. Familiarity with "best practices".

Prerequisite background: Networking (e.g., ECE407), Java programming, IBM Tivoli Monitoring (materials and training will be provided by IBM).

Category:

Science & Technology

Tags:

• IBM
• Tivoli
• Monitoring
• Monitor
• Sevice
• Agent
• Memory
• Network
• Harddrive
• CPU
• Error
• Windows 7
• Red Hat
• Linux
• ece
• electrical
• engineering
• computer