If you are installing a dashboard environment with monitoring dashboard
applications such as the IBM® Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for Servers, IBM Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for VMware, IBM Infrastructure
Management Capacity Planner for VMware, IBM Infrastructure
Management Capacity Planner for PowerVM®,
or creating custom monitoring dashboards, and optionally using the Tivoli® Authorization Policy Server,
install the following Jazz™ for
Service Management version 1.1 components:
- IBM WebSphere® Application Server V8.5.0.1
Note: - If you already have IBM WebSphere Application Server
V8.0.0.2 or a later fix pack, or WebSphere Application
Server V8.5.0.1 or a later fix pack in your environment, you can use
it instead of installing WebSphere Application
Server V8.5.0.1 from the Jazz for
Service Management media. See installing Jazz for
Service Management for more details on installing into an existing WebSphere Application Server
(http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.psc.doc_1.1.0/install/psc_c_install.html).
- The dashboard environment must be installed on a Dashboard Application
Services Hub that was installed on a WebSphere Application Server Full Profile.
A Dashboard Application Services Hub that is installed on a Liberty
Profile is not supported by IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
See the WebSphere Application
Server detailed system requirements at: http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=180&uid=swg27006921.
- Jazz for Service Management
extension for IBM WebSphere
- Dashboard Application Services Hub V3.1
See Installing Jazz for Service
Management (
http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.psc.doc_1.1.0/install/psc_c_install.html) for the following information:
- Hardware, operating system, and software requirements for Dashboard
Application Services Hub.
- Installation technologies that are supported for the Jazz for Service Management components. Jazz for Service Management provides
a launchpad application to guide you through a typical or custom installation
procedure and also supports installation of Dashboard Application
Services Hub from an IBM Installation
Manager local or network repository.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
includes the Jazz for Service
Management media.
After installing and configuring the Jazz for
Service Management prerequisite components that are listed above,
you can use the IBM Installation
Manager Version 1.6.1 or later or the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation
launchpad to install the following IBM Tivoli Monitoring components
into the Dashboard Application Services Hub:
- IBM Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers application
- Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server
The tivcmd Command Line Interface (CLI) for Authorization Policy
component should also be installed on the computer systems that are
used by the administrators who create and work with authorization
policies. The tivcmd CLI does not require any Jazz for Service Management components to coexist
on the same system. You must use IBM Installation
Manager version 1.6.1 or later or IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation
launchpad to install the tivcmd CLI.
Note: - A minimum of 200-300 MB of free space is required on the system
where you are installing the Tivoli Authorization
Policy Server.
- On Linux systems, you must
install the GTK support packages before you use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring
installation launchpad or the IBM Installation
Manager graphical user interface. The package get utilities for your Linux distribution can be used
to install the latest versions of the GTK libraries and the GTK library
dependencies.
- Both the Jazz for Service
Management components and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring components
for a dashboard environment must be installed in the same user mode;
install both as a root user or install both as a non-root user. Information
cannot be exchanged between these components when there is a combination
of root and non-root installations.
In addition to installing the Jazz for
Service Management components and IBM Tivoli Monitoring components,
you must also perform the following configuration tasks:
- You should also install an LDAP server and configure the WebSphere Application Server
for Dashboard Application Services Hub and your Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server to use a federated
user repository and single sign-on.
Note: An LDAP server and single
sign-on are not required if all dashboard operators can use the same
permissions for display monitoring resources in Dashboard Application
Services Hub and you do not need single sign-on support for launching
to the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal.
- Enable the dashboard data provider when you configure the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.
From Dashboard Application Services Hub, configure a connection to
the dashboard data provider.
- If you are using the Authorization Policy Server, you must also
enable authorization policies during portal server configuration.
However, the recommended approach is to set up your dashboard environment
with authorization policies disabled. After you have a dashboard user
who can view monitoring data by using the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for
Servers application, or custom dashboards, and your administrators
have created authorization policies for your dashboard operators,
then reconfigure the portal server to enable authorization policies.
For more information about the configuration tasks to perform
after the installation tasks are complete, see the
IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's
Guide section
on
Preparing your dashboard environment. See also
Supported browser versions for the list of browsers
that are supported by IBM Infrastructure
Management Dashboard for Servers.
If you have IBM SmartCloud™ Monitoring
version 7.2 or later or IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual
Environments version 7.2 or later, you can install their dashboard
monitoring applications (IBM Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for VMware, IBM Infrastructure
Management Capacity Planner for VMware, IBM Infrastructure
Management Capacity Planner for PowerVM)
into Dashboard Application Services Hub. You can also install any
other monitoring dashboard applications that use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring
V6.3 or later dashboard data provider.