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Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V 6.1

Vasfi GucerAna Godoy

Step-by-step deployment guide for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V 6.1

Covers small to large environments

Discusses best practices for a deployment plan

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Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V 6.1

December 2005

International Technical Support Organization

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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.

This document created or updated on November 21, 2005.

Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in Notices on page xvii.

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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. Introduction . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11.1 Enterprise management challenges . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2

1.1.1 Business driving forces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring solutions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31.3 Whats new for IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V5.x clients? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61.4 Whats new for OMEGAMON XE/DE clients?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.5 Whats new for Distributed Monitoring, V3.7 clients? . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 value proposition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71.7 IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91.8 What is new in the IBM Tivoli Data Warehouse, V2.1?. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13

Chapter 2. Architecture and planning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16

2.1.1 Platform Support Matrix - IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 (GA) . . . . . . . 222.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 deployment scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 24

2.2.1 Demo installation - (single machine) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 272.2.2 Small/Medium installation - (400 agents maximum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282.2.3 Large installation - (4000 agents maximum) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 302.2.4 Huge installation - (greater than 4000 agents) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 332.2.5 Advanced large installation with firewall scenarios . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 392.2.6 Advanced huge installation - multiple TEMS processes . . . . . . . . . . 47

2.3 Scalability . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 502.4 Agent deployment architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53

2.4.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 built-in Deployment Controller . . . . . . . . 542.4.2 IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager, V4.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

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2.4.3 Operating system image deployment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56

Chapter 3. Demonstration, proof of concept and small size installation. 593.1 DB2 Workgroup Server Edition installation and configuration. . . . . . . . . . 60

3.1.1 Installing DB2 Workgroup Server Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 603.1.2 Creating the Tivoli Datawarehouse database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 643.1.3 Creating the database user. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 653.1.4 Setting up ODBC connection for Tivoli Data Warehouse Proxy . . . . 69

3.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 components installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 703.2.1 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 713.2.2 Launching Tivoli Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 933.2.3 Configuring Warehouse Summarization and Pruning Agent. . . . . . . 963.2.4 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring Agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98

Chapter 4. Medium and large environment installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1054.1 Lab environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106

4.1.1 Hardware and software configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1064.1.2 Lab architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107

4.2 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104.2.1 Planing the installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1104.2.2 Define the architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124.2.3 Creating a deployment plan . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1124.2.4 Backup strategies . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1174.2.5 Installing and configuring the scenario-1 environment . . . . . . . . . . 1174.2.6 Installing a Remote TEMS on a Windows and UNIX server . . . . . . 1314.2.7 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server - TEPS . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1354.2.8 Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent - TEMA . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1434.2.9 Deploying TEMA from command line interface. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1714.2.10 Installing a new managed systems - Microsoft Exchange example1734.2.11 Tivoli Enterprise Portal -TEP. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1744.2.12 Warehouse Proxy installation and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1784.2.13 Summarization and Pruning agent (SPA) installation and configuration

1864.2.14 Event Synchronization installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1964.2.15 Configuring the Hot Standby . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2114.2.16 Installing and configuring the scenario-2 environment . . . . . . . . . 2184.2.17 Replacing a Hub TEMS server with a new one. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225

4.3 Uninstalling IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2284.3.1 Uninstalling the entire IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment . . . . . . . 2284.3.2 Uninstalling an individual IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent or component . .

2314.3.3 Uninstalling the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console Event Synchronization

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Chapter 5. Working with IBM Tivoli Monitoring, V6.1. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2355.1 Understanding Tivoli Enterprise Portal client . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

5.1.1 Launching the Tivoli Enterprise Portal . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2365.1.2 Tivoli Enterprise Portal components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236

5.2 Working with Tivoli Enterprise Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2385.2.1 Creating a new workspace and add custom views . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2385.2.2 Working with queries. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2445.2.3 Working with a situation and events . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2695.2.4 Policies for automation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 275

5.3 Working with Tivoli Data Warehouse . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 282

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