Deployment prerequisites

Each component in the OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS deployment process requires a distinct set of prerequisites.

Component	Required or Optional	Resource location
OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS	Required	For installing prerequisites, see IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS: Program Directory. For configuring the OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS parameter values, see KS3 and KDF parameters configuration.
Distributed Tivoli Management Services	Required	For installing prerequisites, see IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS: Program Directory. For configuring Tivoli Management Services, see Configuring IBM Tivoli Management Services. For forwarding events from IBM Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent , see Forwarding events from IBM Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent.
Historical reporting	Required	For historical component prerequisites, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Installation & Setup Guide at OMEGAMON shared documentation. For historical data collection mechanism specific to IBM OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS, see Mechanisms for collecting historical data.
OMEGAMON subsystem	Required	To start the OMEGAMON subsystem, see Starting the OMEGAMON subsystem.
Zowe	Optional	Required only if you want to use the Realtime Dataset Metrics web user interface. For supported Zowe versions, see the Selecting target system.
OMEGAMON enhanced 3270 user interface	Optional	To configure this component, see OMEGAMON shared documentation.