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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2


Requirements for a dashboard environment

If you are installing a dashboard environment with monitoring dashboard applications such as...

...and optionally using the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server, install the following Jazz for Service Management version 1.1 (or later) components:

See Installing Jazz for Service Management (http://pic.dhe.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v3r1/topic/com.ibm.psc.doc_1.1.0/install/psc_c_install.html) for the following information:

IBM Tivoli Monitoring includes the Jazz for Service Management media.

After installing and configuring the Jazz for Service Management prerequisite components that are listed above, you can use the IBM Installation Manager Version 1.6.1 or later or the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad to install the following IBM Tivoli Monitoring components into the Dashboard Application Services Hub:

The tivcmd Command Line Interface (CLI) for Authorization Policy component should also be installed on the computer systems that are used by the administrators who create and work with authorization policies. The tivcmd CLI does not require any Jazz for Service Management components to coexist on the same system. You must or IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad to install the tivcmd CLI.

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  1. A minimum of 200-300 MB of free space is required on the system where you are installing the Tivoli Authorization Policy Server.

  2. On AIX systems, install the latest version of Motif before you use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad or the IBM Installation Manager graphical user interface.

  3. On Linux systems, install the GTK (GNU Image Manipulation Program Toolkit) support packages before you use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad or the IBM Installation Manager graphical user interface. GTK toolkit is a multi-platform toolkit for creating graphical user interfaces. The package get utilities for your Linux distribution can be used to install the latest versions of the GTK libraries and the GTK library dependencies.

  4. Both the Jazz for Service Management components and the IBM Tivoli Monitoring components for a dashboard environment must be installed in the same user mode; install both as a root user or install both as a non-root user. Information cannot be exchanged between these components when there is a combination of root and non-root installations.

  5. On Linux or AIX systems, install the Korn shell interpreter (ksh) before you install the tivcmd Command Line Interface for Authorization Policy. For Linux use the ksh package provided by the distribution.

  6. If you are using the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation launchpad to perform the installation or upgrade of components, a Web browser is required on the target computer. See Table 1.

In addition to installing the Jazz for Service Management components and IBM Tivoli Monitoring components, you must also perform the following configuration tasks:

  1. You should also install an LDAP server and configure the WebSphere Application Server for Dashboard Application Services Hub and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server to use a federated user repository and single sign-on.

    An LDAP server and single sign-on are not required if all dashboard operators can use the same permissions for display monitoring resources in Dashboard Application Services Hub, and you do not need single sign-on support for launching to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

  2. Enable the dashboard data provider when you configure the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. From Dashboard Application Services Hub, configure a connection to the dashboard data provider.

  3. If you are using the Authorization Policy Server, you must also enable authorization policies during portal server configuration. However, the recommended approach is to set up your dashboard environment with authorization policies disabled. After you have a dashboard user who can view monitoring data using the IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers application, or custom dashboards, and your administrators have created authorization policies for your dashboard operators, then reconfigure the portal server to enable authorization policies.

For more information about the configuration tasks to perform after the installation tasks are complete, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator's Guide section on Preparing your dashboard environment. See also Supported browser versions for the list of browsers that are supported by IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboard for Servers.

If you have IBM SmartCloud Monitoring version 7.2 or later or IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Virtual Environments version 7.2 or later, you can install their dashboard monitoring applications (IBM Infrastructure Management Dashboards for VMware, IBM Infrastructure Management Capacity Planner for VMware, IBM Infrastructure Management Capacity Planner for PowerVM) into Dashboard Application Services Hub. You can also install any other monitoring dashboard applications that use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 or later dashboard data provider.


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