Hybrid installation checklist

Before you start your hybrid installation, check that you have all the required information ready. During the installation, note down information that you need later.

Information to collect before installation, from your IBM Netcool® Operations Insight® on-premises installation

Collect all of the following information that is relevant to your deployment before you start the installation. You can print this checklist and take note of the information as you go through the installation process.

Note: Integration with on-premises IBM® Agile Service Manager is not supported for hybrid deployments.
Checklist
Checkbox Installation Manager executable location, (with access to Installation Manger UI) ______________________________.
Checkbox Name of the primary ObjectServer, (which must be listening on an external IP address). An example is AGG_P: ______________________________.
Checkbox Host that primary ObjectServer runs on: ______________________________.
Checkbox Port that is configured for connections to the primary ObjectServer: ______________________________.
Checkbox Username of user with administrative permissions for the ObjectServer (for example, the root user): ______________________________ and password for this user ______________________________.
Checkbox Collect the same information for the backup or virtual object servers, which must be listening on external IP addresses. An example is AGG_B or AGG_V:___________________________________________________________.
Checkbox Path to certificate authority file for OMNIbus certificates (if OMNIbus is running in secure mode)______________________________.
Checkbox Dashboard Application Services Hub administrative username (for example, smadmin) ______________________________ and password:______________________________
Checkbox URL of the on-premises Dashboard Application Services Hub server. For example, https://myserver.com:16311 ______________________________

Information to collect before and during the installation

Setting up the cluster checklist
Checkbox The cluster to use for your deployment: ______________________________.
Checkbox The cluster's HTTPS ingress port: ______________________________ The default port is 443.
Checkbox Image repository for all the components charts and images: ______________________________.
Checkbox The environment size to use (trial or production): ______________________________
Checkbox The URL of the control plane node:______________________________.
Checkbox The URL of the infrastructure node (Red Hat® OpenShift® Container Platform client machine where Docker is installed): ______________________________
Checkbox The namespace that you chose to deploy into: ______________________________.
Preparing secrets, passwords, and addresses checklist
Checkbox The control plane node, for example, apps.abc102-ocp42.xyz.com: ______________________________.
Checkbox The infrastructure node (Red Hat OpenShift Container Platform client machine): ______________________________
Checkbox Control plane node username and password: ______________________________.
Checkbox Infrastructure node username and password: ______________________________
Checkbox Infrastructure node IP address: ______________________________
Checkbox Docker username and password: ______________________________.
Checkbox OMNIbus secret name: ______________________________. The value that you chose for <release-name>-omni-secret. For more information, see Configuring authentication.
Checkbox Docker registry secret: ______________________________, if you manually created it. The value that you chose when following Preparing your cluster.
Checkbox client_id: ______________________________ and client_secret ______________________________. The values that you chose when following Configuring authentication.
Installation checklist
Checkbox The release name: ______________________________. The release name that you chose for your deployment instance.
Checkbox Control plane node IP address: ______________________________ and fully qualified domain name (FQDN) ______________________________
Checkbox The service account name, for example, noi-service-account: ______________________________. The value that you chose when following Preparing your cluster.
Checkbox The type of storage that you need to install: ______________________________ and the storage class ______________________________. Allocated space for image registry: ______________________________