IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1: The Next Generation

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1: The Next Generation

by Mary Lovelace, Tom Conway, Werner Eggli, Marta Greselin, Hartmut Harder, Stefan Lein, Massimo Mastrorilli
Released September 2006
Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
ISBN: None

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Book description

IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center is a suite of infrastructure management software that can centralize, automate, and simplify the management of complex and heterogeneous storage environments. It can help reduce the effort of managing complex storage infrastructures, improve storage capacity utilization, and improve administration efficiency. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center allows you to respond to on demand storage needs and brings together, in a single point, the management of storage devices, fabric, and data. TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1 is a rewrite of previous versions. This IBM Redbooks publication shows you how to access the functions as compared to the previous releases.

This book is intended for administrators and users who are installing and using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center. It provides an overview of the product components and functions. It describes the hardware and software environment required and provides a step- by-step installation procedure. Customization and usage hints and tips are also provided.

Table of contents

  1. Notices
    1. Trademarks
  2. Preface
    1. The team that wrote this redbook
    2. Become a published author
    3. Comments welcome
  3. Chapter 1: Introduction to IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
    1. What is IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center?
      1. TotalStorage Productivity Center structure
      2. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center components
    2. What is new in IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1
      1. Changes between TPC V3.1 and V2
    3. Licensing
      1. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Limited Edition
      2. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center Standard Edition
      3. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication
  4. Chapter 2: Key concepts
    1. Standards used in IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center
      1. ANSI standards
      2. Web-Based Enterprise Management
      3. Storage Networking Industry Association
      4. Simple Network Management Protocol
      5. Fibre Alliance MIB
    2. Service Location Protocol overview
      1. SLP architecture
      2. SLP communication
      3. Configuration recommendations
    3. Common Information Model
    4. Component interaction
      1. CIMOM discovery with SLP
      2. How CIM Agent works
    5. Tivoli Common Agent Services
      1. Tivoli Agent Manager
      2. Common Agent
    6. Communication in TotalStorage Productivity Center
    7. IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center basics
      1. Collecting data in general
      2. Role-based Administration
  5. Chapter 3: Installation planning and considerations
    1. Configuration
    2. Installation prerequisites
      1. Hardware
      2. Database
    3. Preinstallation check list
      1. TCP/IP ports used
    4. User IDs and security
      1. User IDs
      2. Increasing user security
      3. Certificates and key files
      4. Services and service accounts
    5. Starting and stopping the managers
    6. Server recommendations
    7. Supported subsystems, devices, filesystems, databases
      1. Storage subsystem support
      2. Tape library support
      3. File system support
      4. Network File System support
      5. Database support
    8. Security considerations
  6. Chapter 4: TotalStorage Productivity Center installation on Windows 2003
    1. TotalStorage Productivity Center installation
      1. Typical installation
      2. Custom installation
      3. CD layout and components
    2. Configuration
      1. One-server environment
      2. Two-server environment
    3. Hardware prerequisites
      1. Hardware
      2. Disk space
    4. Software prerequisites
      1. Databases supported
    5. Preinstallation steps for Windows
      1. Verify primary domain name systems
      2. Activate NetBIOS settings
      3. Internet Information Services
      4. Create Windows user ID to install Device server and Data server
      5. User IDs and password to be used and defined
    6. DB2 install for Windows (1/3)
    7. DB2 install for Windows (2/3)
    8. DB2 install for Windows (3/3)
      1. Agent Manager installation for Windows (1/3)
      2. Agent Manager installation for Windows (2/3)
      3. Agent Manager installation for Windows (3/3)
    9. Install TotalStorage Productivity Center components
      1. Verifying installation
      2. Installing Data and Device Servers, GUI, and CLI (1/2)
      3. Installing Data and Device Servers, GUI, and CLI (2/2)
    10. Configuring the GUI for Web Access under Windows 2003
      1. Installing Internet Information Services (IIS)
      2. Configuring IIS for the TotalStorage Productivity Center GUI
      3. Launch the TotalStorage Productivity Center GUI
  7. Chapter 5: TotalStorage Productivity Center installation on AIX
    1. TotalStorage Productivity Center installation
      1. Typical installation
      2. Custom installation
      3. CD layout and components
    2. Configuration
    3. Hardware Prerequisites
    4. Software Prerequisites
      1. Databases supported
    5. Preinstallation steps for AIX
      1. Verify primary domain name servers
      2. User IDs, passwords, and groups
      3. Create the TotalStorage Productivity Center user ID and group
      4. Creating and sizing file systems and logical volumes
      5. Verify port availability
    6. DB2 installation for AIX
      1. Accessing the installation media with CD
      2. Accessing the installation media with a downloaded image
      3. Preparing the display
      4. Beginning the installation (1/3)
      5. Beginning the installation (2/3)
      6. Beginning the installation (3/3)
      7. Verifying the DB2 installation
      8. Removing the CD from the server
    7. Installing the DB2 fix pack
      1. Obtaining and installing the latest DB2 fix pack
      2. Add the root user to the DB2 instance group
    8. Agent Manager installation for AIX
      1. Accessing the installation media using CD
      2. Accessing the installation media using a downloaded image
      3. Preparing the display
      4. Beginning the installation
      5. Removing the CD from the server
    9. Installing IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for AIX
      1. Order of component installation
      2. Accessing the installation media with a CD
      3. Accessing the installation media with a downloaded image
      4. Preparing the display
      5. Sourcing the environment
      6. Assigning file system ownership
      7. Installing the database schema
      8. Installing Data server (1/2)
      9. Installing Data server (2/2)
      10. Installing Device server (1/2)
      11. Installing Device server (2/2)
      12. Installing agents
      13. Installing the Java Graphical User and the Command Line Interface
    10. Installing the user interface for access with a Web browser
      1. Distributing the Graphical User Interface with a Web browser (1/2)
      2. Distributing the Graphical User Interface with a Web browser (2/2)
  8. Chapter 6: Agent deployment
    1. Functional overview: Which agents do I need?
      1. Types of agents
      2. TotalStorage Productivity Center component use of agents
    2. Agent infrastructure overview
    3. Agent deployment options
      1. Local installation
      2. Remote installation
    4. Local installation of Data and Fabric Agents
      1. Interactive installation (1/2)
      2. Interactive installation (2/2)
      3. Unattended (silent) installation
    5. Remote installation of Data and Fabric Agents
      1. Preparing the remote installation
      2. Performing the remote installation (1/2)
      3. Performing the remote installation (2/2)
    6. Verifying the installation
      1. Logfiles
    7. Uninstalling Data and Fabric Agent
      1. Remote uninstallation
      2. Local uninstallation (1/2)
      3. Local uninstallation (2/2)
    8. Upgrading the Data Agent
  9. Chapter 7: CIMOM installation and customization
    1. Introduction
    2. Planning considerations for CIMOM
      1. CIMOM configuration recommendations
    3. SNIA certification
    4. Installing CIM Agent for ESS 800/DS6000/DS8000
      1. CIM Agent and LIC level relationship for DS8000
      2. CIM Agent and LIC level relationship for DS6000
      3. ESS CLI Installation
      4. DS CIM Agent install (1/2)
      5. DS CIM Agent install (2/2)
      6. Post-installation tasks
      7. Configuring the DS CIM Agent for Windows
      8. Restart the CIMOM
      9. CIMOM user authentication
    5. Verifying connection to the storage subsystems
      1. Adding your CIMOM to the TotalStorage Productivity Center GUI
      2. Problem determination
      3. Confirming that ESS CIMOM is available
      4. Start the CIM Browser
    6. Installing CIM agent for IBM DS4000 family (1/2)
    7. Installing CIM agent for IBM DS4000 family (2/2)
      1. Registering DS4000 CIM agent if SLP-DA is in place
      2. Verifying and managing CIMOM availability
    8. Configuring CIMOM for SAN Volume Controller
      1. Adding the SVC TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk user account (1/2)
      2. Adding the SVC TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk user account (2/2)
      3. Registering the SAN Volume Controller host in SLP
    9. Configuring CIMOM for McData switches
      1. Planning the installation
      2. Supported configurations
      3. Installing SMI-S Interface
      4. Configuring the SMI-S interface
      5. Verifying the connection with TPC
    10. Configuring the CIM Agent for Brocade Switches
      1. Planning the installation
      2. Installing the CIM Agent (1/2)
      3. Installing the CIM Agent (2/2)
      4. SLP installation
      5. Changing the ports used in the CIM Agent
      6. Connecting the CIM Agent with TPC
    11. Configuring the CIM Agent for Cisco switches
      1. Enabling and configuring the CIM Agent
      2. Connecting the CIM Agent with TPC
    12. Configuring the CIM Agent for IBM Tape Libraries
      1. Prerequisites
      2. SMI-S Agent for Tape Installation
      3. Configuring the SMI-S Agent
    13. Discovering endpoint devices
    14. Verifying and managing CIMOMs
    15. Interoperability namespace summary table
    16. Planning considerations for SLP
      1. Considerations for using SLP DA
      2. SLP configuration recommendation
      3. General performance guidelines
    17. CIMOM registration
      1. Manual method to add a CIMOM
      2. Automated method to add CIMOMs
      3. Configuring TotalStorage Productivity Center for SLP discovery
      4. Registering the CIM Agent to SLP-DA
      5. Creating slp.reg file
  10. Chapter 8: Getting Started with TotalStorage Productivity Center
    1. Infrastructure summary
    2. TotalStorage Productivity Center function overview
    3. First steps
      1. Starting the GUI
      2. Logging on
      3. GUI basics
    4. Initial configuration
      1. Configuring CIMOMs (1/3)
      2. Configuring CIMOMs (2/3)
      3. Configuring CIMOMs (3/3)
      4. Verifying Data and Fabric Agents
      5. Configuring out-of-band fabric connectivity (SNMP/API)
    5. Collecting data about your infrastructure
      1. Creating Probes
      2. Creating Scans
      3. Creating Pings
      4. Creating Performance Monitors (1/2)
      5. Creating Performance Monitors (2/2)
    6. Retrieving and displaying data about your Infrastructure
      1. Viewing data about your storage subsystems
      2. Viewing data about your fabrics
    7. Viewing data about your tape libraries
      1. Viewing data about your computers and file systems
    8. Alerting (1/3)
    9. Alerting (2/3)
    10. Alerting (3/3)
    11. Configuring your storage subsystems and switches (1/2)
    12. Configuring your storage subsystems and switches (2/2)
  11. Chapter 9: Topology viewer
    1. Design principles and concepts
      1. Progressive information disclosure
      2. Semantic Zooming
      3. Entities
      4. Information Overlays
      5. Layout
      6. Connections
      7. Status propagation
      8. Hovering
      9. Pinning
      10. Zone and zonesets
      11. Removing entities from the database
      12. Refreshing the Topology Viewer
    2. Getting started
      1. Launch the Topology Viewer
      2. Navigation
      3. Computer
      4. Fabric
      5. Storage Subsystem
    3. Printing
    4. Summary
  12. Chapter 10: Managing and monitoring your storage subsystem
    1. Case study 1: adding new servers and storage
      1. Server tasks
      2. Storage provisioning and zoning on Colorado (1/2)
      3. Storage provisioning and zoning on Colorado (2/2)
      4. Storage Provisioning and Zoning on AZOV ( 002-AZOV )
      5. Post activities for Colorado and AZOV
      6. Manual zone configuration with TPC (1/2)
      7. Manual zone configuration with TPC (2/2)
    2. Case Study 2: Detect and alert unwanted files
      1. Prerequisite steps
      2. Create a Scan targeted to the specific filesystem
      3. Create a customized report for the scan-results
      4. Set up the constraint definition
      5. Rescan the filesystem to see if there is a violation
      6. Activate Archive/Delete Operation
    3. Case Study 3: Policy management
      1. The steps to perform
      2. Create a Scan and a Report targeted to a specific filesystem
      3. Define an alert for a filesystem threshold condition (optional)
  13. Chapter 11: Hints, tips and good to knows
    1. Selecting an SMS or DMS tablespace
    2. DB2 installation known issues
    3. How to get rid of Engenio provider 5989 port
    4. DB2 view for CIMOM discovered each subsystem
    5. Valid characters for user ID and passwords
      1. Typical installation
      2. Custom installation
    6. How to change timeout value
    7. Common Agent and Agent Manager documentation
      1. For an installed Common Agent
      2. For an installed Agent Manager
      3. Scripts to clean up TPC V3.1 component or complete install
    8. SLP configuration recommendation
      1. SLP registration and slptool
    9. Tivoli Common Agent Services
      1. Locations of configured user IDs
      2. Tivoli Agent Manager status
    10. Verifying if a port is in use
  14. Appendix A: Worksheets
    1. User IDs and passwords
      1. Server information
      2. User IDs and passwords for key files and installation
    2. Storage device information
      1. IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server, DS6000, DS8000
      2. IBM DS4000
      3. IBM SAN Volume Controller
  15. Related publications
    1. IBM Redbooks
    2. Other publications
    3. Online resources
    4. How to get IBM Redbooks
    5. Help from IBM
  16. Index (1/3)
  17. Index (2/3)
  18. Index (3/3)
  19. Back cover

Product information

  • Title: IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center V3.1: The Next Generation
  • Author(s): Mary Lovelace, Tom Conway, Werner Eggli, Marta Greselin, Hartmut Harder, Stefan Lein, Massimo Mastrorilli
  • Release date: September 2006
  • Publisher(s): IBM Redbooks
  • ISBN: None