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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Create clusters with Tivoli Monitoring components in a Microsoft Cluster Server environment
Highly available IBM Tivoli Monitoring environments are designed and implemented by using a Microsoft Cluster Server. This server has both a GUI Cluster Administrator and a CLI command (cluster.exe). Use the Cluster Administrator to install and configure Tivoli Monitoring in Microsoft Cluster Server.
This chapter includes guidance for implementing highly available strategies using the Tivoli Monitoring components; practical considerations regarding design, implementation, testing, maintenance work with the system, and upgrade are also discussed.
- Set up the hub monitoring server in a Microsoft Cluster Server covers the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (monitoring server) running on a Microsoft Cluster Server.
- Set up the portal server in a Microsoft Cluster Server includes information about running the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server (portal server) on a Microsoft Cluster Server.
- Set up Tivoli Data Warehouse components in a Microsoft Cluster Server includes information about running the Tivoli Data Warehouse and related components (Summarization and Pruning Agent and Warehouse Proxy Agent) on a Microsoft Cluster Server.
If any of these IBM Tivoli Monitoring components will be running on the same cluster, many of the base steps are common and must be completed only once.
For an overview of Tivoli Monitoring components on clustered environments, see The clustering of IBM Tivoli Monitoring components and to IBM Tivoli Monitoring Resiliency and High Availability.
Important : These configurations and operational procedures for high availability have been tested by IBM Software Support and represent supported product functions. Other configurations or procedures are possible but might be outside of product design parameters; therefore, other configurations or procedures might not operate correctly or be supported. In addition, these configurations and operational procedures cover only DB2 as the RDBMS used by the Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure. IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.3 includes a restricted-use version of IBM DB2 10.1 Enterprise Server Edition for use with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and the Tivoli Data Warehouse.
- Set up the hub monitoring server in a Microsoft Cluster Server
- Set up the portal server in a Microsoft Cluster Server
- Set up Tivoli Data Warehouse components in a Microsoft Cluster Server
- Upgrade IBM Tivoli Monitoring in a Microsoft Cluster environment
- Tivoli Monitoring maintenance on the cluster
- Known problems and limitations