Tivoli Network Monitoring and the Offering as a SaaS the IBM Cloud.

ITM - Tivoli Network Monitoring.

Network Monitoring has and is a significant part of any server or any
hardware that is online and has to be checked for it's health often.
Now, you can walk into any data center or if you can imagine a lot of
servers - they need constant monitoring, attention, and check on its
readiness of doing it's role at any moment.

This accounts for a good part of the expenses in any IT department, as this
involves maintaining the servers, also prepare for any upcoming
contingencies.

Enter, the IBM Network monitoring solution - The ITM ( IBM Tivoli
Monitoring ) which is one of the products of the Tivoli suite of products.
This product consists of monitoring capabilities which can be installed on
a server and told to monitor a hardware resource like a server/router etc.
The product internally comprises mainly of TEMS ( Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server ), TEPS ( Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server ). these are
the back end workhorses.

TEMS - is the data collection component which can store the network data
and has multiple ways it can store. It can either in DB2, or embedded or
other Database

TEPS - is the Portal Server -on which the data is being rendered for visual
presentation. Here the TEPS can be a web driven or a Java Application.

ITM can monitor the server(s) ( or any hardware resources ) which allows
installation of the agent or has the SNMP agent on it,

This allows other add-in modules for event forwarding and also
interpretation of the events ( or correlation and take appropriate
actions )

Some snapshots of the TEPS interfaces are as shown :
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Now, this has been installed on the IBM Cloud and made available to IBM
paid-customers who can bring up an instance on any data centers and make it
operational and can monitor the servers on the cloud.