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Requires the URL of the BAC Web Service for a SOAP connection and a JDBC URL and user credentials
for an SQL connection.
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Supports HP BAC 6, 7, 8, and 9. The adapter can read data from all HP RUM, HP BPM, and HP SiteScope
versions that can write to these HP BAC versions.
HP SiteScope Adapter
The HP SiteScope adapter is an embedded adapter that collects data from log files that HP SiteScope generates.
The HP SiteScope adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Collects monitor classes, including the attribute and monitor groups for each monitor class, by reading
log files that HP SiteScope generates.
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Uses group (.mg) files that HP SiteScope generates to map resource names to the corresponding monitor
classes.
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Creates resources when it collects metric data.
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Requires access to the HP SiteScope log files and group files folders.
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Requires the user account that runs the Collector to have read and write permission to the HP SiteScope
log files and group files folders.
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Supports HP SiteScope 10.12.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring Adapter
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM) adapter is an embedded adapter that retrieves performance metrics that ITM
collects.
The ITM adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Uses a SOAP Web interface to retrieve metric data from ITM.
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Uses attribute (.atr) files from the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server to determine the attribute groups
to retrieve. The .atr files define the information to collect from each attribute group.
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Uses the describe process to determine the types of resources to import and the set of metrics data to collect
from each type of resource.
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Uses auto-discovery and manual discovery to create resources.
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Requires a username, password, an IP address, and a port number to connect to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Server.
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Tested with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.
Microsoft SCOM Adapter
The Microsoft SCOM adapter is an embedded adapter that collects resource metrics time series, resource
availability, and resource relationship data from Microsoft System Center Operations Manager databases.
The Microsoft SCOM adapter has the following features and requirements.
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Uses SQL queries to retrieve data from the source database.
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Reads resource relationship data from the relationships table in the source database.
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Creates resources that represent SCOM entities.
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Uses auto-discovery and manual discovery to create resources.
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Requires the sqljdbc_auth.dll file to be present in the vCenter Operations Manager Enterprise Java
library folder.
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