The sections in this chapter provide an overview of the installation process and information to help you prepare to install your IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment.
| Step | Where to find detailed information |
|---|---|
| Assess your monitoring needs to determine the best deployment of IBM Tivoli Monitoring components. | Pre-deployment phase |
| Ensure you have the required hardware and software. | Hardware and software requirements |
| Gather any information required for successful installation (such as DB2® user information and security specifications). | Specific information to have ready |
| Install the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. | Installing and configuring the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server |
| Install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. | Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server |
| Install the monitoring agent software. | Installing monitoring agents |
| Setup event forwarding to Netcool/OMNIbus or Tivoli Enterprise Console®. | Setting up event forwarding to Netcool/OMNIbus or Setting up event forwarding to Tivoli Enterprise Console |
| Install the portal desktop client on any system where you want to use it. | Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal desktop client |
| Start the portal client to verify that you can view the monitoring data. | Starting the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client |
| Install and setup the Tivoli Data Warehouse | Tivoli Data Warehouse solutions |
| Install and setup a dashboard environment (optional) | Required software and memory requirements for a dashboard environment
"Setting up your dashboard environment" IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide |
| Install and setup a reporting environment with Tivoli Common Reporting (optional) | Required software and memory requirements for a reporting environment that uses Tivoli Common Reporting and the Tivoli Common Reporting chapter in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide. |
| Install and setup OSLC linked data integration using the OSLC Performance Monitoring service provider (optional) | Required software and memory requirements for using the OSLC Performance Monitoring service provider Installing and configuring Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Automation Server |
If you are upgrading from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1, see Upgrading from a previous installation before installing any IBM Tivoli Monitoring components.
If you are upgrading from Tivoli Distributed Monitoring or IBM Tivoli Monitoring V5.x to V6.3, see IBM Tivoli Monitoring Upgrading from Tivoli Distributed Monitoring.
If you plan to use firewalls in your environment, see Firewalls for an overview of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring implementation of firewalls.