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Agent-specific installation and configuration
In addition to the installation and configuration information in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide, use this agent-specific installation and configuration information to install the AIX Premium agent.
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Requirements and agent installation and configuration
Installation
Procedure
Use the install_dir/install.sh script to install the AIX Premium agent on an AIX operating system.
Configuration
Procedure
Use the standard IBM Tivoli Monitoring agent installation procedure to configure the AIX Premium agent on an AIX system.
Remote installation and configuration
You can install the monitoring agent remotely from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal or from the command line.
The AIX Premium agent does not have agent-specific configuration values.
To install from the portal, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide.
To remotely install or configure an agent through the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you must have installed the application support for that agent (Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, and Tivoli Enterprise Portal). You must also have installed the agent bundle into the Remote Deploy Depot.
For information about displaying the configuration options that are available to use with the configureSystem or addSystem commands see "tacmd describeSystemType" in the Command Reference.
If you are using the command line, the following command is an example of remote installation and configuration for Windows operating systems:
tacmd addSystem -t PX -n Primary:sample.node.name:NT -p
Additional information
- The agent can be installed, configured, and started under the root user ID or a nonroot user ID.
If you install as nonroot, you are prompted for the root password during the installation. Prompting occurs so that the installation script can add the agents to the system initialization scripts. If you do not enter the root password, the agents are not automatically started when the system is restarted. Also, if you install as nonroot, no WPAR data is available.
- The IBM Tivoli Monitoring install.sh script identifies AIX 6.1 and 7.1 systems as AIX R6.1 (64 bit). Install the agent on AIX 6.1 and 7.1 using the AIX 6.1 installer option.
- LPARs running the agent must have the Allow processor pool utilization authority or Allow performance information collection option that is checked in the Hardware Management Console (HMC) to monitor the Available CPU Units in Pool attribute.