Installing IBM Spectrum Control in a multiple-server environment

You can install IBM Spectrum® Control by using the installation program or by using silent mode from the command line. Note, installing IBM Spectrum Control by using console mode is not supported.

A multiple-server environment is ideal if you are monitoring large storage environments, where one server is not sufficient to manage the IBM Spectrum Control components.

If you have different administrators for Db2® and IBM Spectrum Control, this environment allows the database repository and Db2 to be installed and managed on a separate server.

Installation considerations

When you install IBM Spectrum Control, a database that is called TPCDB is created. In this repository, the IBM Spectrum Control database schema is created, which describes the structure of the database repository. If you already have the TPCDB database on your system, IBM Spectrum Control assigns a new default database repository name with a number as a suffix. For example, TPCDB1.

If the operating system on which you are installing IBM Spectrum Control is sensitive to spaces in directory paths, change the default installation location to not include spaces, for example, C:\apps\IBM\SC.