Upgrading to OMEGAMON XE for DB2 PE V4.2

OMEGAMON® XE V4.2 monitoring agents require Tivoli® Management Services version 6.2.1.

If you have already installed Tivoli Management Services, but you are not at V6.2.1, you must, at a minimum, upgrade the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server before you install your first V4.2 monitoring agent. In addition, any remote monitoring server through which a V4.2 OMEGAMON XE monitoring agent reports to the hub monitoring server must also be upgraded to Tivoli Management Services 6.2.1.

The OMEGAMON XE V4.2 products support a staged migration. This means as you are migrating from OMEGAMON XE V3.1 or OMEGAMON XE V4.1 products to OMEGAMON XE V4.2 products, you may have a combination of V3.1, V4.1, and V4.2 monitoring agents installed in your environment. For example, you may have an OMEGAMON XE for DB2® PE monitoring agent V4.2 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 aid. 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 V4.2 monitoring agent, the workspaces and attributes available for monitoring and for creating situations accurately reflect V4.2. However, when you are monitoring a system running a backlevel monitoring agent, the information you see in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal still reflects V4.2. 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 V4.2 agents to link from an OMEGAMON XE V4.2 workspace to the workspace of another OMEGAMON XE V3.1 or OMEGAMON XE V4.1 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 V4.2 version of the target workspace has been modified (for example, HTML links added to some workspaces) you may notice different behavior when you migrate the target product from version 4.1 to version 4.2. For example, the 4.1 version of the DB2 workspace does not have HTML links, while the 4.2 version of the DB2 workspace has HTML links.

All user interfaces (except for the Configuration Tool and Install Shield) provided with Tivoli Enterprise Portal version 6.1 and higher and the OMEGAMON XE version 4.1 and higher monitoring agents are globalized. As a result, workspaces in OMEGAMON XE version 4.1 and higher will be displayed in the specified language (for example, Spanish or Chinese). Since previous versions of the OMEGAMON XE monitoring agents were not globalized, OMEGAMON XE 3.1 workspaces will be displayed in English only.