Distributed installation process

The main steps involved in a distributed installation.

A production Tivoli® Netcool® Performance Manager system that generates and produces management reports for a real-world network is likely to be installed on several servers. Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager components can be installed to run on as few as two or three servers, up to dozens of servers.

The following figure shows the installation flow.

Before installing Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager, you must have installed the prerequisite software. For detailed information, see Installing and configuring the prerequisite software.
Important: If you are using a Solaris platform for installing Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager, ensure that Jazz™ for Service Management is either installed on Linux or AIX systems. Jazz™ for Service Management installation is not supported on Solaris platform.

In addition, you must have decided how you want to configure your system. Refer to the following sections:

The general steps used to install Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager are as follows:

  • Start the launchpad.
  • Install the Topology Editor.
  • Start the Topology Editor.
  • Create the topology.
  • Add the Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager components.
  • Save the topology to an XML file.
  • Start the deployer.
  • Install Tivoli Netcool Performance Manager using the deployer.

The following sections describe each of these steps in detail.

Note: Before you start the installation, verify that all the database tests have been performed. Otherwise, the installation might fail. See Installing and configuring the prerequisite software for information about tnsping.