Abstract: An apparatus and method for monitoring the health of system management software components in an enterprise is provided. A health monitoring agent is installed on a TMR server and is then distributed to managed nodes using a Software Distribution TME component. The health monitoring agent on each of the managed nodes is then configured based on the particular TME components installed on the particular managed node. Thereafter, to enable the healthchecking on the managed node module software on each managed node, the healthchecking software is distributed to the respective managed nodes via Tivoli Profiles. After basic setup operation on the individual managed nodes for the healthchecking software, the healthchecking programs are run on the managed nodes. The agents then run each of their enabled healthcheck modules to determine the health of their system management components and the health of the TMR from their point of view.