IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

Locating and sizing the remote deployment depot

When you use the remote deployment for agents and patches, place the remote deployment depot on a separate directory from your Tivoli® Monitoring installation directory. This allows for cleaner backup and restore operations.

Note: Remote deployment is possible only for monitoring agents that run on distributed platforms (Windows, UNIX, and Linux computers).

The remote deployment depot requires significant disk space, which varies depending on the number of agents and the number of platforms you use. Typically, allocate at least 2 GB of disk space for the depot.

Note: If you create a shared deployment repository named depot on the server hosting the deployment depot and you create this repository in a subdirectory of the depot directory, the monitoring server will not be able to find your deployment depot. Instead:

Create the repository at the C:\IBM\ITM\CMS level of the directory structure, not at the C:\IBM\ITM\CMS\depot level.
Then set the DEPOTHOME keyword to DEPOTHOME=\\hubtems\centralrepository\depot in the KBBENV file.

Otherwise you will get this error message:

KDY2077E: The specified agent bundle depot \\hubtems\depot is not a directory.
Either the agent bundle depot directory does not exist or it is not a directory.
The agent bundle depot directory does not exist because no bundles have been added.

One of the most important aspects of using remote deployment is ensuring that the files that are distributed are at the correct version. In large environments, there might be several remote monitoring servers that require maintenance to ensure that all of the depots are updated. To avoid the necessity of installing updates and maintenance on multiple computers, consider creating one depot and making it available using NFS or Windows shares.

If you decide to use a shared depot, make sure that the remote monitoring server is upgraded before you upgrade the agents that are connected to that remote monitoring server. When you deploy monitoring agents, make sure that you configure them to connect to the desired remote monitoring server.

If you are using a Windows monitoring server connecting to a depot on another Windows computer, you must set the service ID for the Windows monitoring server to "Administrator." Also, instead of specifying a mapped drive letter for the path to the depot directory, use the UNC path (such as \\server\share). Use the following steps to change the service ID:

From the Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools.
Double-click Services.
Right-click Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Svcs and click Properties.
On the Log On tab, select This Account.
Type Administrator in the This Account field.
Type the password for the administrator in the Password field. Confirm the password by typing it again in the Confirm password field.
Click Enable.
If the Administrator user does not have Logon as a service right, you are prompted to add it.

Note:

In addition to remotely deploying monitoring agents, IBM® Tivoli Monitoring lets you remotely deploy non-agent bundles (with which your site can employ Tivoli Monitoring components that need not connect to a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server).
Remote deployment is not available for z/OS-based OMEGAMON® agents, nor is it supported on nodes running the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, or the Tivoli Enterprise Portal desktop or browser client.

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