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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Startup Center prerequisite requirements
This section contains prerequisite information for the Tivoli Monitoring Startup Center.
For a distributed installation, you must have DB2 already installed on the target machine where you want to install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and the Warehouse Proxy Agent.
Remote Execution and Access (RXA) is an IBM developer toolkit that provides classes and methods to create an application that can establish a connection with a remote computer. The Startup Center relies on RXA to establish a connection with a remote computer. Therefore you must enable the target machines for RXA.
Enable the RXA toolkit on UNIX and Linux systems
- You must ensure that the SSH protocol is installed and enabled on any target that you want to access by using SSH protocol. OpenSSH 3.71 (or higher) contains security enhancements that are not available in earlier releases.
- RXA cannot establish connections with any UNIX target that has all remote access protocols (rsh, rexec, or ssh) disabled.
- For RXA to communicate with Linux and other SSH targets by using password authentication, you must edit the /etc/ssh/sshd_config file on target computers and set the parameter PasswordAuthentication to yes. The default setting is no. After changing this setting, stop and restart the SSH daemon using the following commands:
/etc/init.d/sshd stop /etc/init.d/sshd startOn AIX systems, you can stop and restart the SSH daemon using the following commands:
/etc/rc.d/rc2.d/Ssshd start /etc/rc.d/rc2.d/Ksshd stop
Enable RXA on Windows systems:
- Interprocess communications share (IPC$) is required to enable RXA on Windows systems. You can use the net share command to check the status of IPC$:
C:\Documents and Settings\Administrator>net shareIf IPC$ is not set correctly, you can use the command net share C$=C: to set the IPC$.
On Windows Server 2008 and Windows Vista, you might need to disable User Account Control if your account is not a domain user account.
The account used to install IBM Tivoli Monitoring components on target machines must be in the Administrator group. See Remote Execution and Access.
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Tivoli Monitoring Startup Center