Use the IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring Installation
Launchpad or IBM Installation
Manager with a local or network repository to install the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards
for Servers using a graphical user interface. Using both of these
methods, you can also install the Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server and tivcmd Command Line Interface for Authorization
at the same time.
Before you begin
IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub must be installed before you can install Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for Servers.
If IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub is not already installed, you have two options:
- Use the Jazz™ for Service
Management launchpad application to install IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub and its
prerequisites. Then, use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation
launchpad to install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring components
for a dashboard environment. This is the recommended approach if you
are not familiar with IBM Installation
Manager.
- Ensure that IBM Installation
Manager is installed and then set up a local or network repository
that contains the Jazz for Service
Management components. Also set up a repository with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring
components for a dashboard environment. Then, use IBM Installation Manager to install IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub, its prerequisites,
and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring components at the same time. IBM Installation Manager ensures
that components are installed in the correct order.
If Dashboard Application Services Hub is already installed,
you have two options for installing Infrastructure Management Dashboards
for Servers:
- Use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad.
This is the recommended approach if you are not familiar with IBM Installation Manager.
- Set up a local or network repository with the Tivoli Monitoring components for a dashboard
environment and then use IBM Installation
Manager to perform the installation.
If you are using an IBM Installation
Manager repository to perform the installation, you must ensure that IBM Installation Manager is installed
and then set up a local or network repository with the packages to
be installed. For more information, see Using IBM Installation Manager to install components from a local repository or Using IBM Installation Manager to install components from a network repository.
About this task
Complete the following steps to install and configure the
infrastructure management dashboards on the computer where the Dashboard
Application Services Hub is installed. (Or where the Dashboard Application
Services Hub will be installed at the same time as the infrastructure
management dashboards.)
Procedure
- If you are using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation
Launchpad, perform the following steps to start the installation:
- Log in to the system as the same user who installed
the IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub.
- Execute the launchpad command or script for your operating
system. The launchpad commands and scripts are located in the root
directory of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Dashboards
for Servers and Authorization Policy Components DVD or DVD image.
- 32 bit system launchpad.exe
- 64 bit system launchpad64.exe
- launchpad.sh
- On the main launchpad panel, select one of the following
links under the Product Overview category:
- Install as administrative user: Select this link if you
installed IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub as an administrative user on Windows or as root on Linux/UNIX.
- Install as non-administrative user: Select this link if
you did not install IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub as an administrative user on Windows or as root on Linux/UNIX.
The IBM Installation Manager
window opens with several choices for managing your IBM software installations.
- If you are using IBM Installation
Manager, perform these steps to start the installation:
- Log in as the user who installed IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub if it
is already installed.
- Start the IBM Installation
Manager:
- Double-click the IBMIM.exe file that is
located in the eclipse subdirectory in the directory where IBM Installation Manager was installed.
The default path for IBM Installation
Manager on Windows is C:\Program
Files\IBM\Installation Manager.
- Execute the IBMIM binary under /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse.
The IBM Installation Manager
window opens with several choices for managing your IBM software installations.
- In the Installation Manager main window, click Install to
see the available packages in the repositories that are configured
for IBM Installation Manager.
- Select the Infrastructure Management Dashboards
for Servers package and click Next.
- If you are installing Jazz for
Service Management, accept the license agreement for each package
and click Next.
- If you are using IBM Installation
Manager to perform the installation, specify the location of the Shared
Resources Directory and click Next.
The
first time that you install a package on a computer you are asked
to specify a shared resources directory. The shared resources directory
is where IBM Installation Manager
stores installation artifacts that can be used by one or more package
groups. Choose a directory on your largest drive. You cannot change
the shared resources directory location until you uninstall all packages.
- On the panel for configuring package groups, you cannot
specify an installation directory for the Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for Servers package because it is
installed using the package group definition for IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub: Core
services in Jazz for Service Management.
Note: - If you are using IBM Installation
Manager to install IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub at the same time, you should confirm the
package group location for its package group and its prerequisite
package groups.
- If you are also installing the tivcmd Command Line Interface for
Authorization Policy package on the computer, you should select its
package directory and either use the default installation directory
location or enter a custom installation directory location. On a 64
bit machine, the 64 bit architecture of the tivcmd Command Line Interface
for Authorization Policy is installed by default. You can select to
switch to the 32 bit architecture. However, on zSeries® systems with Linux, you can only install the 32 bit architecture
of the CLI.
Important: The tivcmd CLI cannot be installed
under the same installation directory as Jazz for
Service Management or the monitoring server, portal server, portal
client, monitoring agents, and tacmd CLI components of IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
- If you are using IBM Installation
Manager to perform the installation for Jazz for
Service Management, you might be asked to specify the translation
packages to install. After making your selection, click Next.
Note: The language files for all supported languages
are always installed with the IBM Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for Servers, Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server, and tivcmd Command Line Interface for Authorization
Policy packages.
- Select the Infrastructure Management Dashboards
for Servers feature and click Next.
Note: - If you are using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation
Launchpad, this feature is preselected.
- It is recommended to select the Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers Installation and Configuration
features together (which is the default behavior). However, you can
clear the Configuration feature if you did not select the Configuration
feature when IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub was installed. Or likewise, if you want to review the
deployment scripts for the Infrastructure Management Dashboards for
Servers before they are used to deploy the infrastructure management
dashboards application into IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub. If you select the Installation feature on
its own, only the dashboard application binaries and install scripts
are laid down in the installation directory (on Windows this location is usually C:\Program
Files\IBM\JazzSM\installedDashboards\com.ibm.tivoli.itmosd and
on Linux/UNIX this location is usually /opt/IBM/JazzSM/installedDashboards/com.ibm.tivoli.itmosd).
If you select the Configuration feature on its own, the Installation
feature is selected as well.
- If you are using IBM Installation
Manager to install IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub at the same time, you must also select the IBM Dashboard Application Services
Hub features and its prerequisite features.
- You can also select the Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server feature and tivcmd Command Line Interface for Authorization
Policy feature if you want to install those features on the same system.
- On the next window, specify the configuration parameters
for each package where you selected the Configuration feature. Select
each package on the left to see the set of configuration parameters.
Specify the configuration parameters and click Next.
Note: - The Next button is not enabled until all
required configuration parameters are completed.
- If you are using IBM Installation
Manager to install IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub at the same time as the infrastructure management
dashboards, see the Jazz for
Service Management Installation Guide at http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.psc.doc_1.1.0/install/psc_c_install.html for details when you are asked to provide
information specific to these packages.
- If IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub is already installed, you must specify an IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub administrative
user name and password such as tipadmin for the Common Configurations
for Core services in Jazz for
Service Management feature and click Validate.
These credentials are used to deploy the Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers application into the WebSphere® Application Server for IBM Dashboard Application Services
Hub.
- If you are also installing the Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server and tivcmd Command Line Interface for Authorization
Policies at the same time, see step 9 in Installing and configuring the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server using the graphical user interface for more details on the configuration
parameters for these components.
- Click Next to review the target
location and a summary of packages to install. This is your opportunity
to click Back and make any changes before proceeding.
- Click Install to begin installing.
After installation is complete, the packages are shown in a panel
with a message confirming that they have been installed. At this point,
you can review the log files.
- Click Finish to finalize the installation.
What to do next
If you selected the Installation and Configuration features
of the IBM Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers, perform the following tasks:
- Restart IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub if it was not restarted during the installation. A restart
is required so that IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub can display the online help for Infrastructure
Management Dashboard for Servers.
- Verify the dashboard data provider is enabled in the portal server
configuration. See Verifying the dashboard data provider is enabled.
- Then, see Preparing your dashboard environment in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's
Guide for
additional configuration steps that are required to set up authentication
and authorization for dashboard users. This topic also contains information
about creating a data provider connection from IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring
dashboard data provider component of the portal server.
- For more information about launching and using IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboard for Servers,
see the Windows OS Agent User's Guide,
the Linux OS Agent User's Guide,
or the UNIX OS Agent User's Guide.
If you only selected the Installation feature of the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards
for Servers, review the dashboard application's deployment scripts
and then use the Modify operation of IBM Installation Manager to deploy
the dashboard application into IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub. See Configuring the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers package after installation.