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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring Feature Minimum HW/SW Requirements

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What is the hardware and software requirements for Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring Feature?

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The following tables list the minimum hardware and software requirements needed to install the Tivoli Storage Manager V6.3 reporting and monitoring feature. Find on this page,
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Supported Operating Systems



V6.3
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring V6.3
Hardware Requirements
Type
Minimum Requirements
Hardware
    AIX operating systems
    • A 64 - bit Common Hardware Reference Platform (CHRP) architecture, excluding POWER3 processor-based systems.
    Notes:
    1. To verify that your system is a CHRP architecture system, issue the lscfg command, and look for this output: Model Architecture: chrp.
    2. POWER3 processor-based systems must upgrade to POWER4 before installing DB2® 9.7.
    • A multiprocessor-based computer with a 2 GHz or greater processor
    • Network interface card

    Linux operating systems
    • Dual core Intel Pentium compatible processor or multiprocessor-based computer with a 2 GHz or greater processor
    • Network interface card
    Windows operating systems
    • Dual core Intel® Pentium® compatible processor or multiprocessor-based computer with a 2 GHz or greater processor
    • Network interface card
    • Remote registry service must be enabled. For more information visit the Microsoft website.
Disk space
    AIX operating systemsLinux operating systems
    • 10 GB free space in the home directory where the warehouse data is stored (minimum).
    • 30 GB free disk space (minimum) in the /opt directory. Requirements increase as historical data is gathered and stored in Tivoli Data Warehouse.
    • 5 MB free disk space (minimum) in the /var directory.
    • 325 MB free disk space (minimum) in the /usr directory.
    • 10 MB free disk space (minimum) in the / directory.
    • 200 MB free disk space (minimum) in the temporary directory.
    Windows operating systems
    • 10 GB free space in the home directory where the warehouse data is stored (minimum).
    • 30 GB free disk space (minimum). Requirements increase as historical data is gathered and stored in Tivoli Data Warehouse.
MemoryAIX operating systems
  • 4 GB minimum
Linux operating systemsWindows operating systems
  • 3 GB minimum
AIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsWindows operating systems
  • If Tivoli Storage Manager monitoring agents are installed on the IBM® Tivoli Monitoring server, memory requirements increase quickly as the number of Tivoli Storage Manager servers are monitored from that one IBM Tivoli Monitoring server.
  • If a Tivoli Storage Manager agent is installed on a Tivoli Storage Manager server, there is only a single instance of the agent is running on the Tivoli Storage Manager server and no increases in memory requirements are needed by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server.
MonitorAIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsWindows operating systems
Set your monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 (minimum) to view the entire window.



IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring V6.3
Software Requirements
Type
Minimum requirements
Operating SystemAIX operating systems
  • AIX 6.1
AIX 6.1 supports system and application Workload Partions
(WPARs), but DB2 installations must be on system WPARs.
  • AIX 7.1
Notes:
1. If the minimum operating system requirements were applied using an operating system upgrade, and was not a new operating system installation, you must install I/O completion ports (IOCP) separately. You can obtain the IOCP libraries from the AIX installation CD and configure IOCP on the DB2 server. Client-only installations do not require IOCP.
2. Details regarding known issues for AIX systems can be found at: https://www.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?&uid=swg21165448.

Linux operating systems
  • RHEL 5 x86 32-bit (update 2)
  • RHEL 5 x86_64 (update 2)
  • SLES 10, 11 x86 32-bit (service pack 2)
  • SLES 10, 11 x86_64 (service pack 2)
Security-enhanced Linux considerations
On RHEL 5 systems, if Security-enhanced Linux (SELinux) is enabled and in enforcing mode, the installer might fail due to SELinux restrictions.
To determine if SELinux is installed and in enforcing mode, perform one of the following:
1. Check the /etc/sysconfig/selinux file
2. Run the sestatus command
3. Check the /var/log/messages file for SELinux notices
To disable SELinux, you can do one of the following:
1. set it in permissive mode and run the setenforce 0 command
as a superuser
2. modify /etc/sysconfig/selinux and reboot the machine
If your DB2® database product installs successfully on a RHEL 5 system, DB2 processes will run in the unconfined domain. To assign DB2 processes to their own domains, modify the policy. A sample SELinux policy is provided in the sqllib/samples directory


Windows operating systems
  • Windows 2008 x86 32-bit
  • Windows 2008, 2008 R2 x64 : Standard, Enterprise, or Datacenter Edition
AIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsWindows operating systems
Important: If you are installing a Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager agent, and you previously installed an IBM Tivoli Monitoring server, you must install the Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager agent on the existing Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring server. Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager can only be used with IBM Tivoli Monitoring, version 6.2 FP1 or later.
Web browserAIX operating systemsLinux operating systems
One of the following web browsers:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
  • Firefox 3.5

Java:
*IBM Java version 5 is required to launch Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

Windows operating systems
One of the following web browsers:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 7
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 8
  • Firefox version 3.5
  • Firefox version 3.6 cannot be used with Windows Server 2008

Java:
*IBM Java version 5 is required to start Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
Oracle Java is not supported.

*IBM Java version 5 is included with TSM Monitoring and Reporting
Libraries
    AIX operating systems
    • AIX 6.1 running in a 64-bit kernel environment with the following additional requirements:
    • AIX 6.1 TL 2.
    • Minimum C++ runtime level with the xlC.rte 9.0.0.8 and xlC.aix61.rte.9.0.0.8 or later file sets. These file sets are included in the June 2008 fix pack package for IBM C++ Runtime Environment Components for AIX.
    • AIX 7.1 running in a 64-bit kernel environment.
    • Minimum C++ runtime level requires the xlC.rte 11.1.0.0 and xlC.aix61.rte 11.1.0.0 or later file sets. These file sets are included in the April 2010 IBM C++ Runtime Environment Components for AIX V11.1 package.

    Linux operating systems
    GNU C libraries:
    Version 2.3.3-98.38 or later that is installed on
    the Tivoli StorageManager system.

    Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers:
    For Linux X86_32 server:
    compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
    compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138

    For Linux X86_64 server:
    Libaio.so.1
    Libstdc++so.5
Communication ProtocolAIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsWindows operating systems
At least one of the following communication protocols:
  • Named Pipes
  • TCP/IP Version 4 or Version 6
X Window System or X11 GUIAIX operating systemsLinux operating systemsI
Supplied with AIX and Linux software

If you are accessing the Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager server remotely, you must tunnel the X11 server back to your system.

An X Window system software capable of rendering a graphical user interface is required if you want to use the DB2 Setup wizard to install a DB2 product on Linux or UNIX operating systems.

Windows operating systems
You must have an X11 Windows server running.
Other software and software considerations AIX operating systems
  • Eclipse 3.3 and Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), version 2.2.1 are required for creating custom BIRT reports.
  • You can download the latest IBM C++ Runtime Environment Components for AIX at the IBM AIX XL C and C++ support website: http://www.ibm.com/software/awdtools/xlcpp/support/
  • Use the bosboot command to switch to the 64-bit kernel. To switch to a 64-bit kernel, you require root authority and must enter the following commands:

    • ln -sf /usr/lib/boot/unix_64 /unix
    ln -sf /usr/lib/boot/unix_64 /usr/lib/boot/unix
    bosboot -a
    shutdown -Fr
  • Korn Shell (ksh) is required.

Linux operating systems
  • Eclipse 3.3 and Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), version 2.2.1 are required for creating custom BIRT reports.
  • Korn Shell (ksh)
Windows operating systems
Eclipse 3.3 and Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), version 2.2.1 are required for creating custom BIRT reports.

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Modified date:
17 June 2018

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