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Installation and configuration

If you are installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Netcool/OMNIbus event integration for the first time, complete the tasks in this table.

However, if you are upgrading an existing event integration environment, see Upgrade from a previous installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Netcool/OMNIbus integration.


Installation and configuration: one hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and multiple Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServers

  Task Architecture Type Administrator
1.

Install Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer if it is not already installed or upgrade it to the fix pack version required by IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

See the Netcool/OMNIbus Information Center for detailed instructions on this task: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v8r1/topic/com.ibm.tivoli.namomnibus.doc/welcome_ob.htm. See also Required software for event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus.

Unidirectional and bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
2.

For each Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Install the Netcool/OMNIbus Probe for Tivoli EIF if it is not already installed or upgrade it to the release required by IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

See the Netcool/OMNIbus Information Center for detailed instructions on this task: http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v8r1/topic/com.ibm.tivoli.namomnibus.doc/welcome_ob.htm. See also Required software for event integration with Netcool/OMNIbus.

Unidirectional and bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
3. For each Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Event Synchronization Component. Unidirectional and bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
4. For each Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Update the OMNIbus database schema on single-tier or aggregation tier ObjectServers. Unidirectional and bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
5. For each Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Change the default deduplication trigger. Unidirectional and bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
6. For each Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Configure the OMNIbus server for program execution from scripts. Bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
7. For each Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Start the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Situation Update Forwarder. See Start and stop the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Situation Update Forwarder. Bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
8. For each Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Configure the Netcool/OMNIbus EIF probe. Unidirectional and bidirectional Netcool/OMNIbus
9. Configure the hub monitoring server to forward events to one of the EIF Probes. This probe is the default EIF receiver. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring
10. For each additional Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer: Use the tacmd createEventDest command to create an event destination for the EIF probe associated with the ObjectServer. See the Command Reference for a description. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring
11. For each situation, configure which event destinations the events for the situation should be sent to. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring Operator
12. Verify installation and configuration. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Netcool/OMNIbus
13. Determine if additional configuration tasks should be performed. See Customize Event Integration. Unidirectional and bidirectional IBM Tivoli Monitoring and Netcool/OMNIbus


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