Installing IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor

You can choose to install and configure IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor for either a non-high availability or high availability environment. Installation of IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor in each environment varies based on your operating system.

Before you install and configure IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor, you must complete the preinstallation checklist to help you prepare for the installation process.

For a high availability environment, you can install and configure multiple event processors to monitor events from monitored servers. If an event processor is down or fails in a high availability environment, another event processor can start monitoring servers from the failed event processor until it becomes available again. No events are lost when IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor is installed and configured for a high availability environment.

Important: If you do not enable the globalization parameter for the Microsoft SQL server during an IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor installation, then you cannot use multi-byte characters. When you use a multi-byte character without enabling this parameter, then IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor cannot run and you must manually remove the character from your database. If you choose to enable the globalization parameter later, you must reinstall IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor.
Note:

Globalization is only needed if data to be stored contains multi-byte characters, which are common in character sets such as Kanji.

Database I/O performance may drop multiple orders of magnitude if globalization support is selected, so it is NOT recommended you do so with MSSQL.

If you set true for mssqlGlobal variable, then your database size can also increase significantly.

After you complete your preinstallation checklist and choose whether you need to implement a high availability environment, you can begin the process of installing and configuring IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor on a Microsoft Windows, AIX, or UNIX operating system. You can complete the following types of installation based on your operating system:
  • GUI installer - you can complete a GUI installation on Microsoft Windows. You can also complete the installation on a Linux or UNIX platform where a GUI environment is configured and available.
  • Command line installer - you can complete a command line installation on Microsoft Windows, UNIX, or z/Linux.
Important: IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor only provides 64-bit environment installers. The console and web console can be launched from either a 32-bit or 64-bit environment.

After you complete your installation and configuration of IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor, you will verify the installation and begin your setup of IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor to monitor servers.