The table in this section lists the staffing and time estimates for various Tivoli® Monitoring tasks.
| Tivoli Monitoring tasks | Hours required | Number of people required | Skills required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discussing the project plan including implementation and support in place by IBM® | 16 | 2 | Medium |
| Downloading the correct media for installation | 8 hours | 1 | Medium |
| Completing the hardware check | 4 hours | 1 | Medium |
| Creating the warehouse database with sufficient space, user IDs and tuning parameters | 4 | 1 | High (DBA) |
| Configuring firewall for ports | 8 | 1 | High (Network Team) |
| Installing core components (portal server, monitoring server, Warehouse Proxy Agent, and Summarization and Pruning Agent) 1 | 20 | 2 | High |
| Disabling the default situations | 2 | 1 | Medium |
| Creating the managed systems list | 8 | 1 | Medium |
| Creating the custom situations | 32 | 2 | Medium |
| Deploying first 50 mix of Windows OS, UNIX and Linux OS and different application agents | 40 | 1 | High |
| Deploying situations to appropriate managed systems lists | 8 | 1 | Medium |
| Verifying all agents and core components are active and working correctly | 40 | 2 | High |
| Verifying events flowing to Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer or Tivoli Enterprise Console® server | 4 | 1 | Medium |
| Backing up the environment (core components) | 4 | 1 | High |
| Deploying agents in chunks of 100 agents, depending upon the requirement. Sizing includes adding computers to the managed systems lists. | 24 | 2 | Medium |
| Enabling only required attribute groups for warehousing as mentioned in the project plan | 8 | 1 | Medium |
| Verifying warehouse data is flowing from agents to warehouse database | 8 | 1 | High |
| Performing frequent health checks of the environment, more frequent in first few months and then later less frequent checks | 4 | 1 | High |
| Configuring Performance Analyzer Agent | .5 | 1 | Medium |
| Adding application support to Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and Tivoli Enterprise Portal Client | .5 | 1 | Medium |
| Reconfiguring Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, and Tivoli Enterprise Portal Client | .5 | 1 | Medium |
| Configuring historical data collection | 2 | 1 | Medium |
| Moving the Tivoli Performance Analyzer configuration database 2 | 4 | 1 | Medium |
| Installing Tivoli Performance Analyzer domain support in console mode or in GUI mode | 2 | 1 | Medium |
| Installing reports | 1 | 1 | Medium |
| Inspection, Validation, and Enabling or Disabling of the default tasks to suit the environments and requirements | 2 | 1 | Medium |
| Customizing the default tasks to suit the environment and requirements | 2 | 1 | Medium |
| Creating custom tasks | 2 | 1 | Medium |
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The steps outlined in Deployment phase will assist you with your project planning and ensure that the deployment phase goes smoothly.