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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Plan and project management
The Project Management and Planning phase should be led by a certified project manager working with a deployment architect. The project manager ensures that all required tasks are identified and documented. Thus, providing a framework for tracking the progress of the deployment.
Before you begin the implementation phase of your deployment, develop a detailed project plan. Deployment phase helps you understand the detailed steps required to successfully install and configure the Tivoli Monitoring environment. This section describes some additional tasks that must take place before the initial implementation takes place.
The most important task to complete before proceeding to the implementation phase is to identify and document the key requirements. These requirements are typically business objectives that have been identified by senior management. After the business objectives have been identified, the Tivoli Monitoring requirements and implementation details can be created by architect. These details include the following:
- High-level design for the Tivoli Monitoring components.
- Naming conventions for situation, workspaces, queries, managed systems lists, and Take Actions commands.
- Any changes to existing production environments such as firewall changes, and server prerequisites.
- Monitor strategy
The monitoring strategy should specify exactly what will be monitored, and how; what situations and automation policies will be created; what events will be forwarded to other event management systems; and similar details. Working out the specifics of the monitoring strategy is perhaps the most challenging aspect of planning.
The details provided in this guide are intended to help the architect design the right solutions to meet the needs of all Tivoli Monitoring stake holders, given the constraints of the environment and the business objectives.
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