2 Chapter 2. Planning The keys to a successfully deployment of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 are proper architecture planning and requirements collection. This chapter summarizes the various core IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 components and how each one relates to one another. We examine several common architecture designs based on several factors: number of agents, hardware availability, and network restrictions. In this chapter, we discuss the following topics: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 components IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1 deployment scenarios Scalability © Copyright IBM Corp. 2006. All rights reserved. 11