IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal desktop client

There are two methods of deploying the desktop client: You can install the desktop client from the installation media and run and maintain it on the local system. You can also use IBM® Web Start for Java™ to download and run the desktop client from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.

See Tivoli Enterprise Portal client for a discussion of the advantages and disadvantages of each type of portal server client available with IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

This section describes how to install the desktop client from the installation media on Windows and Linux computers. When you install the desktop client from the installation media, you must also install support for all the applications that you will be using.

See Using Web Start to download and run the desktop client for instructions on downloading and running the desktop client from the portal server.

Parent topic: Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring

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