Adding IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS 6.1 or IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks 6.1 to existing installations

If you are installing IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for z/OS or IBM® Z OMEGAMON® AI for Networks 6.1 with existing installations of 5.5 or 5.6, there are some coexistence considerations to plan for.

Version 6.1 supports a staged installation. You may have a combination of 5.5, 5.6, and 6.1 monitoring agents installed in your environment. For example, you may have a 5.5 monitoring agent and a 6.1 monitoring agent running in the same hub environment during the migration period. However, the hub and TOM must be 6.1. Support of a mixed environment is provided as a compatibility help.

You may deploy new monitoring agents to your z/OS systems along with older monitoring agents of the same product, during a transition period.

Requirements:
  • Hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) must be 6.1
  • e3270UI (TOM) must be 6.1
  • Agents can be any mix of 5.5, 5.6, and 6.1
  • The z/OS SYSPLEX proxy must be running on a 6.1 TEMS
If you want to preserve customized data (situations, workspaces and queries) or historical data, you must first upgrade any distributed components (Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server if it is on a distributed platform, and Tivoli Data Warehouse) and then upgrade the agents.

Best practices

It is recommended to use Configuration Manager, though PARMGEN is also supported.

It is recommended to use a "clean" installation in a new CSI, though a mixed installation is also supported.