Adds predictive capability to IBM Tivoli Monitoring, enabling focus on future performance issues. It helps operations and IT staff to understand resource consumption trends, identify problems, resolve problems more quickly, and predict and avoid future problems. Provides simple, intuitive forecasting of resource trends to focus monitoring on emerging problems. Predictive trending on key operational metrics helps you see how system performance and capacity will evolve over time. Built-in knowledge of distributed systems, including key performance indicators and useful thresholds and reports, helps operators get immediate value. Uses IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents and Universal Agent;no need for additional agents. Seamlessly extends Tivoli Monitoring v6.1 and later, enhancing the capabilities of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. Through Tivoli Enterprise Portal, gives users the ability to create customized workspaces containing graphs, events and status information. Takes advantage of the long-term historical and real time data in Tivoli Data Warehouse.