IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center : getting started / [Mary Lovelace ... et al.].

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lovelace, Mary.

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

IBM redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Storage area networks (Computer networks).

Computer storage devices.

Electronic data processing--Backup processing alternatives.

Electronic data processing.

Physical Description:

xii, 332 p. : ill.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

San Jose, CA : IBM, International Technical Support Organization, c2005.

Language Note:

English

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Comments welcome

Part 1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center foundation

Chapter 1. A look at IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

1.1 An overview of IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

1.1.1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

1.1.2 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric

1.1.3 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk

1.1.4 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication

1.1.5 Launchpad

1.1.6 Rebranding to IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

1.1.7 Prerequisite software and hardware

1.2 Productivity Center with Advanced Provisioning

Chapter 2. Key concepts

2.1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center architecture

2.1.1 Architectural overview diagram

2.1.2 Architectural layers

2.1.3 Relationships between the managers and components

2.1.4 Collecting data

2.2 Standards used in IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

2.2.1 ANSI standards

2.2.2 Web-Based Enterprise Management

2.2.3 Storage Networking Industry Association

2.2.4 Simple Network Management Protocol

2.2.5 Fibre Alliance MIB

2.3 Service Location Protocol overview

2.3.1 SLP architecture

2.3.2 Common Information Model

2.4 Component interaction

2.4.1 CIMOM discovery with SLP

2.4.2 How CIM Agent works

2.5 Tivoli Common Agent Services

2.5.1 Tivoli Agent Manager

2.5.2 Common Agent

Part 2 Installing the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center base product suite

Chapter 3. Installation planning and considerations

3.1 Configuration

3.2 Installation prerequisites

3.2.1 TCP/IP ports used by TotalStorage Productivity Center

3.2.2 Default databases created during the installation

3.3 Our lab setup environment

3.4 Pre-installation check list.

3.5 User IDs and security

3.5.1 User IDs

3.5.2 Increasing user security

3.5.3 Certificates and key files

3.5.4 Services and service accounts

3.6 Starting and stopping the managers

3.7 Uninstalling Internet Information Services

3.8 Installing SNMP

3.9 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric

3.9.1 The computer name

3.9.2 Database considerations

3.9.3 Windows Terminal Services

3.9.4 Tivoli NetView

3.9.5 Personal firewall

3.9.6 Changing the HOSTS file

3.10 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

3.10.1 Server recommendations

3.10.2 Supported subsystems and databases

3.10.3 Security considerations

3.10.4 Creating the DB2 database

3.10.5 Increasing the NUMDB value

Chapter 4. Installing the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center suite

4.1 Installing the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

4.1.1 Prerequisite steps

4.2 Installation process

4.2.1 Prerequisite product installation: DB2 and WebSphere

4.2.2 Installing IBM Director

4.2.3 Tivoli Agent Manager

4.2.4 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk and Replication Base

4.2.5 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk

4.2.6 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Replication

4.2.7 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric

4.2.8 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

Part 3 Configuring the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center

Chapter 5. Configuring IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk

5.1 ESS Command Line Interface

5.1.1 Installing ESS CLI

5.2 Installing the ESS CIMOM

5.3 Verifying the installation of the ESS CIM Agent

5.3.1 Configuring the ESS CIM Agent for Windows

5.4 Installing and setting up SLP

5.4.1 Setting up the Service Location Protocol Directory Agent

5.4.2 Persistency of SLP registration.

5.4.3 Configuring SLP Directory Agent addresses

5.4.4 SLP registration and slptool

5.5 Installing and configuring CIMOM for FAStT

5.5.1 SLP registration

5.6 Configuring CIMOM for SAN Volume Controller

5.6.1 Adding the SVC Multiple Device Manager user account

5.6.2 Registering the SAN Volume Controller host in SLP

5.6.3 Performing a PuTTY key exchange

5.7 Productivity Center for Disk Discovery summary

5.8 Disk and Replication Manager remote GUI

Chapter 6. Configuring IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Data

6.1 Configuring the CIM Agents

6.1.1 CIM and SLP interfaces within Data Manager

6.1.2 Configuring CIM Agents

6.1.3 Setting up a disk alias

6.2 Viewing information gathered by the CIM Agent

6.2.1 By computer

6.2.2 By subsystem

6.3 Setting up the Web GUI

6.3.1 Using IBM HTTP Server

6.3.2 Using Internet Information Server

6.3.3 Configuring the URL in Fabric Manager

6.4 Installing the Data Manager remote console

Chapter 7. Configuring and using IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric

7.1 TotalStorage Productivity Center component interaction

7.1.1 IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Disk and Replication Base

7.1.2 SNMP

7.1.3 Tivoli Provisioning Manager

7.2 Post-installation procedures

7.2.1 Installing Productivity Center for Fabric - Agent

7.2.2 Installing Productivity Center for Fabric - Remote Console

7.3 Configuring IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center for Fabric

7.3.1 Configuring SNMP

7.3.2 Configuring the outband agents

7.3.3 Checking inband agents

7.3.4 Performing an initial poll and setting up the poll interval

7.4 Walk-through of Productivity Center for Fabric

7.4.1 Device Centric view

7.4.2 Host Centric view

7.4.3 SAN view

7.4.4 Launching element managers

7.4.5 Explore view

7.4.6 Summary.

Chapter 8. Deployment of agents

8.1 Installing the agents

8.2 Data Agent installation using the installer

8.3 Deploying the agent

Chapter 9. Hints, tips and good to knows

9.1 SLP configuration recommendation

9.1.1 SLP registration and slptool

9.2 Tivoli Common Agent Services

9.2.1 Locations of configured user IDs

9.2.2 Resource Manager registration

9.2.3 Tivoli Agent Manager status

9.2.4 Registered Fabric Agents

9.2.5 Registered Data Agents

9.3 Launchpad

9.3.1 Launchpad installation

9.3.2 Launchpad customization

9.4 Remote consoles

9.5 Verifying whether a port is in use

Appendix A. Worksheets

User IDs and passwords

Server information

User IDs and passwords for key files and installation

Storage device information

IBM TotalStorage Enterprise Storage Server

IBM FAStT

IBM SAN Volume Controller

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Other publications

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"May 2005."

"SG24-6490-00."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

80245584