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IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring Feature Minimum HW/SW Requirements

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Question

What are the hardware and software requirements for Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring Feature?

Answer

The following tables list the minimum hardware and software requirements needed to install the Tivoli Storage Manager V6.2 reporting and monitoring feature. Find on this page:
Hardware requirements
Software requirements
Supported Operating Systems



V6.2
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring V6.2
Hardware Requirements
Type
Minimum Requirements
Hardware
  • Dual core Intel® Pentium® compatible processor or multiprocessor-based computer with a 2Ghz or greater processor
  • POWER4 or higher processor. If using POWER7 it must be run in Power6 Compatibility mode.
  • Network interface card
  • Graphic display adapter
Disk space
  • 30 GB minimum free disk space. Requirements increase as historical data is gathered and stored in Tivoli Data Warehouse.
  • Minimum of 10 GB free space must be made available in the home directory where the warehouse data is stored.
MemoryLinux operating systemsWindows operating systems 3 GB minimum

AIX operating systems 4 GB minimum
  • If Tivoli Storage Manager monitoring agents are installed on the Tivoli Monitoring server, memory requirements increase quickly as the number of Tivoli Storage Manager servers are monitored from that one IBM Tivoli Monitoring server.
  • If a Tivoli Storage Manager monitoring agent is installed on a Tivoli Storage Manager server, only a single instance of the agent is running on the Tivoli Storage Manager server and no increases in memory requirements are needed by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring server.
MonitorSet your monitor resolution to 1024 x 768 (minimum) to view the entire window.
IBM Tivoli Storage Manager Reporting and Monitoring V6.2
Software Requirements
Type
Minimum requirements
Operating SystemSee table below for a complete list of supported operating systems and components.
Web browserA Web browser to log on and use the console. The Web browser can be installed on the same or a separate system. The following browsers can be used:
  • Microsoft Internet Explorer 6.x (Windows systems only)
  • Firefox 1.0.2
  • Firefox 1.3
  • Firefox 1.4
Mozilla has published some fixes you might need to run on AIX systems
  • Netscape 6.2
  • Netscape 7

Your browser must support the server code page. If your browser does not support the server code page, the windows might be unreadable. If your browser meets these requirements but does not correctly display a Tivoli Storage Manager web-based interface, consider using a different browser.
Linux operating systemsLibrariesGNU C libraries, Version 2.3.3-98.38 or later that is installed on the Tivoli Storage Manager system.

Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise Servers:

For Linux X86_32 server:
compat-libstdc++-33-3.2.3-61
compat-libstdc++-296-2.96-138

For Linux X86_64 server:
Libaio.so.1
Libstdc++so.5
Communication ProtocolAt least one of the following communication protocols:
  • Named Pipes
  • TCP/IP Version 4 or Version 6
Optional softwareThe following optional software is required for creating your own custom reports:
  • Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT), version 2.2.1, All-In-One software
  • IBM Java 1.5 Java Developers Kit/Java Runtime Environment (JDK/JRE) installed on the server where you are creating custom reports
X Window System or X11 GUIAIX operating systemsLinux operating systems Supplied with AIX and Linux software

AIX operating systemsLinux operating systems If you are accessing the Tivoli Storage Manager reporting and monitoring server remotely, you must tunnel the X11 server back to your system. If you are on a Windows system, you must have an X11 Window System running.

Supported Operating Systems
Operating systems
Feature:
(IBM Tivoli Monitoring server,
reporting component, and
data collection agent)
Data collection
agent only
Windows 2003 SP2
X
X
Windows 2003 R2 SP2
X
X
Windows 2003 SP2 64 bit
X
X
Windows 2003 R2 SP2 64 bit
X
X
Windows 2008
X
X
Windows 2008 64 bit
X
X
AIX 5.3 64 bit
X
X
AIX 6.1 64 bit
X
X
RHEL 5 32 bit Intel
X
X
RHEL 5 32 bit Intel Xeon
X
X
RHEL 5 32 bit Intel AMD 
X
SLES 10 32 bit Intel  
X
SLES 10 32 bit Intel Xeon 
X
SLES 10 32 bit Intel AMD 
X
RHEL 5 64 bit Intel 
X
RHEL 5 64 bit Intel Xeon 
X
RHEL 5 64 bit AMD 
X
SLES 10 64 bit Intel  
X
SLES 10 64 bit Intel Xeon 
X
SLES 10 64 bit Intel AMD 
X
Important: If you are installing a reporting and monitoring agent, and you previously installed an IBM® Tivoli Monitoring server, you must install the reporting and monitoring agent on the existing Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. The reporting and monitoring feature is only supported with IBM Tivoli Monitoring, version 6.2 FP1.

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Modified date:
17 June 2018

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