If you chose the Installation feature alone for the IBM® Infrastructure Management Dashboards
for Servers at installation time, use the Modify option
in IBM Installation Manager
for configuration after you have reviewed the deployment scripts of
the dashboard application. When you configure the dashboard application,
it is deployed to IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub.
Before you begin
Ensure that the configuration feature for IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub is already
selected. IBM Infrastructure
Management Dashboard for Servers is an extension offering of the Dashboard
Application Services Hub. As a result, an error message is displayed
if you attempt to select the infrastructure management dashboard configuration
feature when Dashboard Application Servers Hub is not configured.
Procedure
- Log in as the user who installed IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub.
- On the system where the Dashboard Application Services
Hub and Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers are installed,
start the IBM Installation Manager:
Double-click the IBMIM.exe file in the eclipse
subdirectory in the directory where IBM Installation
Manager was installed. The default path for IBM Installation Manager on Windows is C:\Program Files\IBM\Installation
Manager.
Execute the IBMIM binary under /opt/IBM/InstallationManager/eclipse.
The IBM Installation Manager
window opens with several choices for managing your IBM software installations.
- Click Modify to see the available
features for configuring.
- Select Core services in Jazz for Service Management.
This option contains the IBM Infrastructure Management
Dashboards for Servers package. Click Next to
continue.
- Expand the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards
for Servers node and select the Configuration check
box. Click Next to continue.
- Click Next. The common configuration
information for the Dashboard Application Services Hub is shown in
the fields.
- Specify an IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub administrative username and password such
as tipadmin for the Common Configurations for Core services
in Jazz for Service Management feature and click Validate.
These credentials are used to deploy the Infrastructure
Management Dashboards for Servers application into the WebSphere® Application Server
for IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub.
After your credentials are successfully
validated, the Next button is enabled.
- Click Next to see and review the
summary information. This is your opportunity to click Back and
make any changes before proceeding.
- Click Modify to deploy the infrastructure
management dashboards to the Dashboard Application Services Hub. After
configuration is complete, the packages are shown in a panel with
a message confirming the deployment.
- Click Finish to finalize the configuration.
What to do next
Perform the following tasks to complete the setup of the
dashboard environment:
- Restart IBM Dashboard Application
Services Hub if it was not restarted during configuration. A restart
is required so that IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub can display the online help for Infrastructure
Management Dashboard for Servers.
- Verify the dashboard data provider is enabled in the portal server
configuration. See Verifying the dashboard data provider is enabled.
- Then, see Preparing your dashboard environment in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's
Guide for
additional configuration steps that are required to set up authentication
and authorization for dashboard users. This topic also contains information
about creating a data provider connection from IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring
dashboard data provider component of the portal server.
- For more information about launching and using IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboard for Servers,
see the Windows OS Agent User's Guide,
the Linux OS Agent User's Guide,
or the UNIX OS Agent User's Guide.