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Before you begin, take note of the following information concerning the

installation procedures in this chapter:

򐂰 The installation procedures provide information for installing a single

component (such as the monitoring server) on one computer. If you want to

install multiple components (such as the monitoring server and the portal

server) on the same computer and you want to install them simultaneously,

the actual steps might vary. Refer to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2.0

Installation and Setup Guide, GC32-9407 for further information.

򐂰 The following sections contain Windows, Linux, and UNIX procedures for

installing the various components. Use the procedure that best applies to your

environment layout. For example, you can install a monitoring server on

UNIX, a portal server on Linux, and a portal desktop client on Windows.

򐂰 If your site uses the IP.PIPE protocol for communications, be aware of the

following limitations:

– There can be at most 16 IP.PIPE processes per host.

– IP.PIPE uses one, and only one, physical port per process. Port numbers

are allocated using a well-known port allocation algorithm. The first

process for a host is assigned port 1918, which is the default.

– KDC_PORTS is not supported for IP.PIPE.

If you need to have more than 16 processes per host, use IP.UDP (User

Datagram Protocol) for connections between IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

components.

3.2.1 Installing/configuring the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring

Server

We will start by installing the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server in Windows

and UNIX Systems in our test environment.

Installing the hub monitoring server on a Windows system

Use the following steps to install the hub monitoring server on a Windows

system:

1. Launch the installation wizard by double-clicking the setup.exe file in the

\WINDOWS subdirectory on the installation media.

Install the portal desktop client (optional). 3.2.5, “Installing the Tivoli Enterprise

Portal desktop client” on page 111

Steps References

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2. Click Next on the Welcome window.

3. In the Install Prerequisites window, read the information about the required

levels of IBM Global Security Toolkit (GSKit) and IBM Java. The check box for

each prerequisite is cleared if the correct level of the software is already

installed (Figure 3-3). Otherwise, the check box is selected to indicated that

the software is to be installed.

Figure 3-3 Install Prerequisites

4. Click Next. The prerequisite software is installed if necessary.

5. Click Accept to accept the license agreement.

6. Choose the directory where you want to install the product. The default

directory is C:\IBM\ITM. Click Next.

Note: If you are running Windows 2003 or Windows XP and have security

set to check the software publisher of applications, you might receive an

error stating that the setup.exe file is from an unknown publisher. Click Run

to disregard this error message.

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7. Type a 32-character encryption key. You can use the default key. Click Next

and then click OK to confirm the encryption key.

8. In the Select Features window, select the check box for Tivoli Enterprise

Monitoring Server (Figure 3-4).

Figure 3-4 Selecting features to install

Note:

򐂰 Do not use the “=”, “,”, or “l” characters in your key.

򐂰 Ensure that you document the value you use for the key. Use this key

during the installation of any components that communicate with this

monitoring server.

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9. Click Next to display the Agent Deployment window (Figure 3-5). The agent

depot contains agents that you can deploy to remote computers.

Figure 3-5 Agent remote deployment depot

10.If no IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 component has been previously installed on

this computer, a window is displayed for you to select a program folder for the

Windows Start menu. Select a program folder and click Next. The default

program folder name is IBM Tivoli Monitoring.

Note: When you select the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server check

box, all of the check boxes in the attached subtree are automatically

selected. The support check boxes in the subtree are for installing

application support files for base monitoring agents to the monitoring

server. (The base monitoring agents are included with the base IBM Tivoli

Monitoring V6.2 installation package.) It is best to leave all of the support

check boxes selected so you do not need to re-configure application

support as new agent types are added to your environment.