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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Install into an NFS environment
IBM supports installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring in NFS environments. Using NFS, you can concentrate your software and data in a specific location, minimizing maintenance, administrative overhead, and disk space.
Although using NFS to support multiple hosts simplifies the maintenance of installed IBM Tivoli products, its use can impact performance. If you are installing into an NFS environment, consider the administrative savings to the possible impact on the performance of your network.
Consider the number of hosts that share a single installation directory, as well as the effects of network congestion and file system performance on the overall response time of the IBM Tivoli products.
NFS also has some trade-offs in how you manage your environment. While you can have your entire IBM Tivoli Monitoring in one place, there might be additional configuration required to define the use of specific products or processes in your installation directory. Will every product on every host system execute using the same configuration; or will you tailor the configuration to the particular environment?
If installing from images on an NFS mount, the NFS mount needs world execute permissions to be accessible by the installation processes.
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Linux or UNIX installation considerations