Remotely deploying monitoring agents is intended only for users who purchased IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring separately from Tivoli Storage Manager, and who are already running an IBM Tivoli Monitoring server. By remotely deploying monitoring agents, you can monitor Tivoli Storage Manager servers with the existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring server.
About this task
The operating system agent that is required for remote deployment is not included in the version of IBM Tivoli Monitoring that is embedded in Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager. Therefore, you cannot use remote deployment without purchasing IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
Attention: If you installed IBM Tivoli Monitoring as part of
the Tivoli Storage
Manager installation
package, do not use this method to install the Tivoli Monitoring
for Tivoli Storage Manager agent.
Doing so can interfere with future upgrades and uninstallations.
AIX: Installing monitoring agents, or application support files in an existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment on AIX and Linux systems
If you have an existing IBM Tivoli Monitoring server that does not have Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Storage Manager installed, you can run the native IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation wizard to install more monitoring agents. If you do not want to install the agent, you can install only the application support files, which are required by the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring server and Tivoli Enterprise Portal server to monitor Tivoli Storage Manager servers.- AIX: Remotely deploying monitoring agents
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.