Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2

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2.1.3 Additional requirements

The additional requirements for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 installation are:

򐂰 The best network connection possible is needed between the hub monitoring

server and portal server and also between the Tivoli Data Warehouse,

Warehouse Proxy agent, and Summarization and Pruning agent.

򐂰 A video card supporting 64,000 colors and 1024 x 768 resolution is required

for the portal client.

2.2 Software prerequisites

The software prerequisites to install IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 are discussed in

this section.

2.2.1 Required software for IBM Tivoli Monitoring

Table 2-2 shows the required software for IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2.

Table 2-2 Required software for IBM Tivoli Monitoring

f. The memory requirement for the portal server does not include database processes for the portal

server database, which require up to 400 MB of additional memory, depending on configuration

settings.

g. One of the factors to consider when planning the size of database that we need is the amount and

type of information we will collect for agent history data collection. Please refer to “Planning

considerations for the Tivoli Data Warehouse” in IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2.0 Installation and

Setup Guide, GC32-9407 to estimate database size.

Product Supported

version

Component where the software is required

Monitoring

server

Portal

server

Portal

desktop

client

Portal

browser

client

Monitoring

agent

IBM Runtime

Environment for Java

JRE™ V1.5 X X X X

For Linux®

computers: a Korn

shell interpreter

pdksh-5.2.14 X X X

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For Red Hat

Enterprise Linux 4.0

computers:

libXp.so.6 (available

in

xorg-x11-deprecated

-libs)

X

AIX only: xlC

Runtime

Environment

(required for GSkit)

X

Microsoft® Internet

Explorer

V6.0 with all

critical Microsoft

updates applied

XX

Database A supported RDBMS is required for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and the Tivoli Data

Warehouse. Supported database platforms for the portal server and Tivoli Data Warehouse

are listed in 2.2.5, “Supported databases for Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and Tivoli Data

Warehouse” on page 37.

IBM Tivoli Enterprise

Console

Version 3.9 with

Fix Pack 03

For TCP/IP

communication:

򐂰 Windows 2000

Professional or

Server with

Service Pack 3

or above

򐂰 Microsoft

Winsock v1.1 or

later

򐂰 Microsoft TCP/IP

protocol stack

XXX X

Product Supported

version

Component where the software is required

Monitoring

server

Portal

server

Portal

desktop

client

Portal

browser

client

Monitoring

agent