Implementing a Tivoli solution for central management of large distributed environments / Morten Moeller ... [et al.].

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Moeller, Morten., Author.

Contributor:

International Business Machines Corporation. International Technical Support Organization.

Series:

IBM redbooks.

Redbooks

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Computer networks--Management.

Computer networks.

TME (Computer file).

Physical Description:

xxii, 692 p.

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Austin, TX : IBM Corp., International Technical Support Organization, c2005.

Language Note:

English

System Details:

text file

Summary:

Deploying and managing distributed systems in hundreds or thousands of branch banks and retail stores, called outlets, requires careful planning of the automation to cope with the sheer numbers of systems involved. This IBM Redbooks publication demonstrates how to architect, establish, and configure a Tivoli systems management environment that supports the central management of thousands of outlet systems based on the open United Linux platform. The main focus of this book is to provide step-by-step instructions, sample scripts, and code to install and deploy the core Tivoli products that enable the organization to: - Deploy and maintain distributed application solutions - Monitor availability and performance of remote systems, middleware components and applications - Perform diagnostics and troubleshooting of remote system and application components to resolve availability or performance issues - Gather metrics to document performance levels This book is intended for IT professionals with a basic understanding of the core Tivoli product set and who are responsible for deploying a Tivoli management infrastructure. Please note that the additional material referenced in the text is not available from IBM.

Contents:

Front cover

Contents

Figures

Tables

Examples

Notices

Trademarks

Preface

The team that wrote this redbook

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Part 1 The outlet environment

Chapter 1. The challenges of managing an outlet environment

1.1 Complex application infrastructures

1.2 Managing outlet application systems

1.2.1 Service Delivery

1.2.2 Service Support

1.3 The outlet application infrastructure

1.3.1 Basic products used to facilitate outlet applications

1.3.2 Managing outlet applications using Tivoli

1.4 Tivoli product structure

1.5 Managing outlet applications

1.6 Meeting future challenges today

Chapter 2. The Outlet Solution overview

2.1 Introducing Outlet Inc.

2.1.1 The Outlet Inc. environment

2.1.2 Outlet Solution features

2.1.3 Current IT infrastructure

2.1.4 Constraints

2.2 The Outlet Systems Management Solution

2.2.1 Outlet Systems Management Solution requirements

2.2.2 Outlet Systems Management Solution capabilities

Chapter 3. The Outlet Systems Management Solution Architecture

3.1 Outlet Inc. requirements

3.2 Physical architecture for Outlet Inc.

3.2.1 Tivoli Command Center

3.2.2 TMR connections within Outlet Inc.

3.2.3 Tivoli gateway architecture

3.3 Logical Tivoli architecture for Outlet Inc.

3.3.1 Administering the Tivoli Management Environment

3.3.2 Tivoli naming conventions for Outlet Inc.

3.4 Setup and configuration planning

3.4.1 Suggested Tivoli hardware requirements

3.4.2 Tivoli repeater architecture

3.4.3 Optimizing slow links connections

3.4.4 Managing endpoint behavior

3.4.5 Managing the TME Infrastructure

3.4.6 Tivoli and RDBMS Integration

3.5 Network communications and considerations

3.5.1 TCP/IP

3.6 Configuration management.

3.6.1 Tivoli Configuration Manager: Inventory

3.7 Release management

3.7.1 Software Distribution in Outlet Inc.

3.7.2 Integrating Tivoli Software Distribution with the TEC

3.7.3 Integrating Tivoli Software Distribution with Inventory

3.8 Availability and Capacity Management

3.8.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring architecture

3.8.2 ITM for Databases: DB2

3.8.3 ITM for Web Infrastructure: WebSphere Application Server

3.8.4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance

3.9 Event management

Part 2 Management solution implementation

Chapter 4. Installing the Tivoli Infrastructure

4.1 The Outlet Systems Management Solution

4.1.1 Management environments

4.1.2 Functional component locations

4.2 Installation planning and preparation

4.2.1 Create naming standards for all Tivoli related objects

4.2.2 Operating platform preparation

4.2.3 Enabling SMB server on the srchost server

4.2.4 Establishing a code library

4.3 Installation and configuration

4.3.1 Establishing an installation roadmap

4.3.2 Installing a working database environment

4.3.3 Establishing the TME infrastructure

4.3.4 Tivoli Enterprise Console v3.9

4.3.5 Installing Tivoli Configuration Manager

4.3.6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation

4.3.7 IBM Tivoli Manager Web Health Console

4.3.8 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure

4.3.9 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for databases

4.3.10 TMTP Management Server

4.4 Postinstallation configuration

4.4.1 Framework customization

4.4.2 Enabling MDIST2

4.4.3 Enabling Tivoli End-User Web Interfaces

4.4.4 Configuring the Tivoli Enterprise Console

4.4.5 Customizing the Inventory

4.4.6 Configuring Software Distribution

4.4.7 Enabling the Activity Planner

4.4.8 Enabling Change Manager

4.4.9 IBM Tivoli Monitoring configuration.

4.4.10 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure

4.4.11 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases

4.4.12 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance

Chapter 5. Creating profiles, packages, and tasks

5.1 Defining the logical structure of the environment

5.2 Deploying management endpoints

5.3 Creating monitoring profiles

5.3.1 Inventory scanning

5.3.2 Hardware scanning

5.3.3 System software scan

5.3.4 Custom scan

5.3.5 Defining OS and HW Monitoring Profiles

5.3.6 Defining TEC profiles

5.3.7 Building the software package for deploying DB2 Server

5.3.8 Creating a DB2 instance for the Outlet Solution

5.3.9 Defining DB2 monitoring objects

5.3.10 Creating the db2ecc user ID

5.3.11 Creating profiles for Tivoli Monitoring for Databases

5.3.12 Deploying WebSphere Application Server

5.3.13 Enabling WebSphere Application Server monitoring

5.3.14 Creating a software package for TimeCard Store Server

5.3.15 Installing the TMTP Management Agent

5.3.16 Configuring TMTP to monitor WebSphere

Part 3 Putting the solution to use

Chapter 6. Deployment

6.1 Automating deployment

6.2 Automating tasks

6.3 Creating the deployment activity plan

6.3.1 Building the reference model

6.3.2 Completing the activity plan

6.4 Defining the logical structure of the Outlet Inc. environment

6.5 Creating endpoint policies

6.5.1 Allow_login policy

6.5.2 Select_gateway policy

6.5.3 Login policy

6.5.4 After_login policy

6.6 Installing endpoints

Part 4 Appendixes

Appendix A. Configuration files and scripts

A.1 Additional material contents

A.2 TMR setup and maintenance-related files

A.2.1 create_logical_structure.sh

A.2.2 Store lists

A.2.3 load_tasks.sh

A.2.4 update_resources.sh

A.3 Policies and related tasks and scripts

A.3.1 put.sh

A.3.2 get.sh.

A.3.3 allow_policy

A.3.4 select_policy

A.3.5 gateway.lst

A.3.6 login_policy

A.3.7 after_policy

A.3.8 sub_ep.sh

A.3.9 ep_login_notif.sh

A.3.10 run_ep_customization_task.sh

A.4 DB2 monitoring deployment-related scripts

A.4.1 create_db2_instance_objects.sh

A.4.2 create_db2_database_objects.sh

A.4.3 itm_db2_instance_rm_distrib.sh

A.4.4 itm_db2_database_rm_distrib.sh

A.5 WebSphere Application Server monitoring deployment files

A.5.1 create_app_server.sh

A.5.2 itm_was_rm_distrib.sh

A.5.3 was_configure_tec_adapter.sh

A.5.4 was_start_tec_adapter.sh

A.5.5 was_stop_tec_adapter.sh

A.6 TMTP monitoring deployment scripts

A.6.1 addtoagentgroup.sh

A.6.2 deployj2ee.sh

A.7 Software Packages and related files

A.7.1 Common scripts

A.7.2 IBM HTTP Server v2.0.47

A.7.3 WebSphere Message Queuing Server v5.3

A.7.4 WebSphere Message Queuing Server v5.3 Fixpack 8

A.7.5 WebSphere Application Server v5.1

A.7.6 WebSphere Application Server v5.1 Fixpack 1

A.7.7 DB2 Server v8.2

A.7.8 TMTP Agent v5.3

A.7.9 WebSphere Caching Proxy v5.1

A.7.10 WebSphere Caching Proxy v5.1 Fixpack 1

A.7.11 TimeCard v5.1

A.8 APM related scripts and files

A.8.1 ep_customization.sh

A.8.2 Production_Outlet_Plan_v1.0.xml

Appendix B. Obtaining the installation images

IBM Business Partners

Appendix C. Additional material

Locating the Web material

Using the Web material

System requirements for downloading the Web material

How to use the Web material

Glossary

Abbreviations and acronyms

Related publications

IBM Redbooks

Product Manuals

IBM Tivoli Management Framework v4.1.1

IBM Enterprise Console v3.9

IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager v4.2.1

IBM Tivoli Monitoring v5.1

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases v5.1.2.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure v5.1.2

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance v5.3

Online Information Centers

Online manuals

Online resources

How to get IBM Redbooks

Help from IBM

Index

Back cover.

Notes:

"This edition applies to the Tivoli Management Environment software products version 3.x, 4.x and 5.x."

"June 2005."

Includes bibliographical references and index.

OCLC:

62233310