Guardium Installation Manager

The Guardium Installation Manager (GIM) is used to install and maintain Guardium components on managed systems.

The GIM component includes a GIM server, which is installed as part of the Guardium system, and a GIM client, which must be installed on servers that host databases and file servers you want to monitor. After installing the GIM client, it works with the GIM server to perform the following tasks:

Check for updates to installed software
Transfer and install new software
Uninstall software
Update software parameters

If your environment includes a Guardium system configured as a Central Manager, you must decide which Guardium systems you want to use as GIM servers. You can either manage all of your GIM clients from a single Guardium system, such as the central manager, or you can manage them in groups from the different Guardium systems. If you manage all of your GIM clients from a single Guardium system, then you can view the status of all the GIM clients and perform related tasks from a single interface. If you choose to manage your GIM clients in groups from separate Guardium systems, then you can use each system to work with the GIM clients that it manages, but no overall or environment-wide view is available.