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Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1
Vasfi GucerAna Godoy
Step-by-step deployment guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1
Covers small to large environments
Discusses best practices for a deployment plan
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Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1
December 2005
International Technical Support Organization
SG24-7188-00
Copyright International Business Machines Corporation 2005. All rights reserved.Note to U.S. Government Users Restricted Rights -- Use, duplication or disclosure restricted by GSA ADPSchedule Contract with IBM Corp.
First Edition (December 2005)
This edition applies to IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6, Release 1.
Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Notices on page xvii.
Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviiTrademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xixThe team that wrote this redbook. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xixBecome a published author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxComments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xx
Chapter 1. Architecture and planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.1.1 Platform support matrix for IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.1.2 Database support matrix . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
1.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 deployment scenarios. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81.2.1 Demo installation (single machine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101.2.2 Small/medium installation (400 agents maximum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111.2.3 Large installation (4000 agents maximum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131.2.4 Huge installation (greater than 4000 agents) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161.2.5 Advanced large installation with firewall scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221.2.6 Advanced huge installation: multiple TEMS processes . . . . . . . . . . 30
1.3 Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 331.4 Agent deployment architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
1.4.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 built-in deployment controller . . . . . . . . . . 361.4.2 Tivoli Configuration Manager V4.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 391.4.3 Operating system image deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
Chapter 2. Demonstration, Proof of Concept, and small-size installation412.1 DB2 Workgroup Server Edition installation and configuration. . . . . . . . . . 42
2.1.1 Installing DB2 Workgroup Server Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 422.1.2 Creating the Tivoli Datawarehouse database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 462.1.3 Creating the database user. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 472.1.4 Setting up ODBC connection for Tivoli Data Warehouse Proxy . . . . 51
2.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 components installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 522.2.1 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
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2.2.2 Launching Tivoli Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 772.2.3 Configuring Warehouse Summarization and Pruning Agent. . . . . . . 812.2.4 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
Chapter 3. Medium and large environment installation installation . . . . . 893.1 Lab environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
3.1.1 Hardware and software configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 913.1.2 Lab architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
3.2 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 943.2.1 Planning the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 953.2.2 Define the architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963.2.3 Creating a deployment plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 963.2.4 Backup strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1013.2.5 Installing and configuring the scenario 1 environment . . . . . . . . . . 1023.2.6 Installing a Remote TEMS on a Windows and UNIX server . . . . . . 1163.2.7 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server - TEPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1213.2.8 Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1293.2.9 Deploying TEMA from the command line interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . 1583.2.10 Installing a new managed system: Microsoft Exchange example. 1603.2.11 Tivoli Enterprise Portal (TEP) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1603.2.12 Warehouse Proxy installation and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1643.2.13 Summarization and Pruning agent installation and configuration . 1733.2.14 Event synchronization installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1813.2.15 Configuring the Hot Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1963.2.16 Installing and configuring the scenario 2 environment . . . . . . . . . 2033.2.17 Replacing a Hub TEMS server with a new one. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
3.3 Uninstalling IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2133.3.1 Uninstalling the entire IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment . . . . . . . 2133.3.2 Uninstalling an individual agent or component . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2153.3.3 Uninstalling TEC event synchronization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
Chapter 4. Working with IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2194.1 Understanding Tivoli Enterprise Portal client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
4.1.1 Launching Tivoli Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2204.1.2 Tivoli Enterprise Portal components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
4.2 Working with Tivoli Enterprise Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2224.2.1 Creating a new workspace and adding custom views . . . . . . . . . . 2224.2.2 Working with queries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2284.2.3 Working with a situation and events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Other publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257Online resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257How to get IBM Redbooks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
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Help from IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
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1-1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 lab topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91-2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1, small/medium topology design . . . . . . . . . . . 121-3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 large topology design . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141-4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.1 huge installation topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 171-5 Right-click Tivoli Enterprise Portal for Create Instance option. . . . . . . . 191-6 Entering the Instance Name into the dialog box . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191-7 Entering Tivoli Enterprise Portal host name into TEP Server field. . . . . 201-8 The newly defined Tivoli Enterprise Portal instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211-9 Example of additional Tivoli Enterprise Portal instances . . . . . . . . . . . . 211-10 Advanced installation on less secure side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281-11 Advanced installation on more secure side . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 291-12 Large installation with multiple TEMS processes on single system. . . . 321-13 Universal sources of scalability and performance numbers. . . . . . . . . . 341-14 Agent deployment architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 372-1 DB2 S
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