Remote deployment provides the ability to add the monitoring agent installation packages to a central location called an agent depot. From this central location, the packages can then be pushed out to remote locations and installed silently by using the IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring operating system agent. Remote deployment is useful for larger-scale deployments such as deploying five or more monitoring agents.
About this task
Remote deployment can be used to deploy monitoring agents to systems that already have the IBM Tivoli Monitoring operating system agent that is installed on them. Remote deployment can be used for new installations or to upgrade existing monitoring agents to new versions.
There are multiple tasks that must be completed
to use remote deployment. These tasks include the following items:
- Add the agents that you want to deploy to the agent depot on the Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring server hub. Requirement: The IBM Tivoli Monitoring operating system agents on the systems that you want to deploy to must be configured to use this Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring server hub.
- Start the remote deployment.
- Configure historical data collection.
AIX: Remote deployment preinstallation requirements
Before you begin any remote deployment tasks, ensure that you meet the preinstallation requirements for your system.- AIX: Populating the agent depot on AIX and Linux systems
Before you can remotely deploy a monitoring agent, you must populate the agent depot. The agent depot is an installation directory on the monitoring server that you must copy the agent to, and then deploy from, to remote systems. - AIX: Remotely deploying monitoring agents on AIX and Linux systems
After you populate the agent depot, you can deploy the monitoring agent to remote systems. - AIX: Configuring historical data collection from within Tivoli Enterprise Portal
After you install the monitoring agent in to an existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment, you must configure historical data collection if you intend to generate reports based on this data. You can configure historical data collection from within Tivoli Enterprise Portal, but consider using the command-line interface instead because it is quicker than doing it from within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. - AIX: Configuring historical data collection by using the command-line interface on AIX and Linux systems
After you install the monitoring agents in an existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment, you must configure historical data collection if you intend to generate reports based on this data.