Complete the steps in this section to install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and portal client on a Windows computer.
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation directory cannot exceed 80 characters
or contain non-ASCII, special or double-byte characters.
The directory name can contain only these characters:
"abcdefghijklmnopqrstuvwxyzABCDEFGHIJKLMNOPQRSTUVWXYZ _\:0123456789()~-./".
When you select the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server check box, all of the check boxes in the attached subtree are automatically selected. The support check boxes in the subtree are for installing application support files for base monitoring agents to the monitoring server. (The base monitoring agents are included with the base IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation package.) It is best to leave all of the support check boxes selected so you do not need to reconfigure application support as new agent types are added to your environment. For detailed information about application support, see Installing and enabling application support.
If you are installing the portal server on a computer that already has a monitoring server installed, the Agent Deployment window is displayed.
The Agent Deployment window lists monitoring agents on this installation image that you can add to the agent depot. The agent depot contains agents that you can deploy to remote computers. For information about how to deploy agents in the agent depot to remote computers, see Deploying monitoring agents across your environment.
Select the agents, if any, that you want to add to the agent depot. (You can add agents to the agent depot at a later time by updating your installation.) Click Next.
After installation is complete, a configuration window (called the Setup Type window) is displayed.
Field | Description |
---|---|
Hostname or IP Address | IP Address or fully qualified hostname of the IBM Dashboard Application Services
Hub with the Authorization Policy Server. This parameter is required. |
Protocol | Choose the protocol used to connect to the IBM Dashboard Application Services
Hub with the Authorization Policy Server. The default value is HTTPS. This parameter is not required. |
Port | Choose the port used to connect to the IBM Dashboard Application Services
Hub with the Authorization Policy Server. The default value is 16311
for the HTTPS protocol and 16310 for the HTTP protocol. The valid
port values are from 1 to 65535 inclusive. This parameter is not required. |
Polling Interval | How often the local data store is updated from
the Authorization Policy Server by the policy client running on the
portal server. The default is 30 minutes. Valid values are from 5
to 1440 minutes inclusive. This parameter is not required. |
Policy Store Expiration Interval | If the policy store cannot be updated from the
Authorization Policy Server, this interval is the amount of time the
local policy store will continue to be utilized from the last update.
If the Authorization Policy Server cannot be accessed for the time
interval specified by this parameter, all subsequent requests for
dashboard data will fail with an authorization error until the Authorization
Policy Server is available again. The default is 7 days and 0 hours.
The value specified for hours must be in the range of 0-23 hours.
If the expiration interval is set to 0 days and 0 hours, the policy
store will never expire. This parameter is not required. |
User ID | The name of the user that the portal server
will use to access the IBM Dashboard
Application Services Hub with Authorization Policy Server. This user
must be added to the PolicyDistributor authorization policy core role
or to a custom role that has been granted permission to perform the
distribute operation for the role object type. See the Using role-based
authorization policies chapter in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's
Guide and
the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Command Reference for
more details on creating authorization policy roles and assigning
users to them. This parameter is required. |
Password | The password for the user. This parameter is required. |
Confirm Password | Confirm the password by entering it again. This parameter is required. |
Follow the instructions later in this book for implementing a Tivoli Data Warehouse solution, beginning with Tivoli Data Warehouse solutions. These instructions will direct you to reconfigure the connection between the portal server and the warehouse database after you have completed all preliminary setup tasks.
If you select No, go to Step 27.
For additional information about warehouse configuration, press the Help button.
Field | DB2 for Linux, UNIX, and Windows default | MS SQL default | Description |
---|---|---|---|
Data Source Name | ITM Warehouse | ITM Warehouse | The name of the data source. |
Database User ID | ITMUser | ITMUser | The name of the Windows OS user that the portal server will use to access the Tivoli Data Warehouse database. |
Database Password | itmpswd1 | itmpswd1 | The password for the Windows user. If your environment requires complex passwords (passwords that require both alpha and numeric characters), specify a password that complies with these requirements. |
Reenter Password | itmpswd1 | itmpswd1 | Confirm the password by entering it again. |
The warehouse user is the user account (user ID and password) used by the portal server and other warehousing components to access the warehouse database.
For additional information about these parameters, press the Help button.
The warehouse user is the user account (user ID and password) used by the portal server and other warehousing components to access the warehouse database.
For additional information about these parameters, press the Help button.
The warehouse user is the user account (user ID and password) used by the portal server and other warehousing components to access the warehouse database.
For additional information about these parameters, press the Help button.
The default connector retrieves situation events reported to Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Servers for display in the Common Event Console. You can configure connectors for other event management systems after you have completed the product installation. For configuration instructions, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide.
For additional information about these parameters, press the Help button.