IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring

You install the Tivoli® Monitoring distributed components using the following DVDs or DVD images.

Base DVDs or DVD images contains:
- The IBM® Tivoli Monitoring server and portal client components
- Warehouse Proxy Agent, Summarization and Pruning Agent, and Tivoli Performance Analyzer Agent and their application support
- Operating system agent application support
Note: There are operating system specific versions of the Base DVD.
Multiple agent DVDs or DVD images are provided for the following sets of monitoring agents included with IBM Tivoli Monitoring:
- The operating system agents (including the agentless OS monitoring agents) are on the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents DVD or DVD image
- System P agents are on the Tivoli Monitoring Agents for System p® DVDs or DVD image. There is a separate DVD with the application support for these agents.
- The Log File Monitoring agent is on the IBM Tivoli Log File Agent DVD or DVD image.
Note: Other products provide their own monitoring agent installation media.
The Dashboards for Servers and Authorization Policy Components DVD and DVD image contains the IBM Tivoli Monitoring components that are installed and used with the IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub component of Jazz™ for Service Management.

The installation and initial configuration of your environment consists of the steps described in Table 1.

This chapter contains the instructions to perform installation and initial configuration using a graphical user interface or a command line interface. If you want to perform a silent installation, see the instructions in Performing a silent installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
The installation procedures provide information for installing a single component (such as the monitoring server) on one computer. If you want to install multiple components (such as the monitoring server and the portal server) on the same computer and you want to install them simultaneously, the actual steps might vary. See the individual sections for required configuration information during your installation.
The installer validates configuration values for hub, remote, and standby monitoring servers. During configuration, the installer may prompt you to verify values that it considers suspect.
The installation procedures in this chapter contain instructions for new installations. Follow the same procedures for upgrading or updating your installation. An upgrade is an installation that replaces a previous release or fix pack level of the product or component with a later release or fix pack level. An update is a modification to an existing installation at the same release or fix pack level.
For more information on fix pack installation, see Installing product maintenance.
If your Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server is configured to a DB2® database, and you are upgrading your installation from a previous release, DB2 must be started before you choose to upgrade your Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.
See Installation worksheets for a set of worksheets that you can use to gather the information required for installation.
The following sections contain Windows, Linux, and UNIX procedures for installing the various components. Use the procedure that best applies to your environment layout. For example, you can install a monitoring server on UNIX, a portal server on Linux, and a portal desktop client on Windows. To install a monitoring server or monitoring agents on a z/OS® system, see the appropriate z/OS documentation as described in Table 1.
If your site uses the IP.PIPE, IP6.PIPE, or IP.SPIPE, IP6.SPIPE protocols for communications, be aware of the port usage rules for Tivoli Monitoring components. See Controlling port number assignments for more information.
When installing on Windows from a network drive, using the network path name format, the Prerequisite Scanner fails. You must run setup.exe from a local drive or a mapped drive.

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