Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.2

Planning checklist

Use the Planning checklist in Table 1 to ensure that all important planning tasks are accomplished. Perform all of these tasks prior to starting your Tivoli Monitoring installation. The following sections of this guide provide the necessary information to complete this checklist.

Table 1. Planning checklist
Planning activity Comments Status
Attend IBM Tivoli Monitoring Administrator Training. Sample: 2 people attended Administrator class Sample: Complete
Determine the desired platforms for Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure components.
Identify the number of Tivoli Monitoring agents (typically 3 monitoring agents per monitoring server).
Determine high availability and disaster recovery requirements. Map those requirements to your Tivoli Monitoring deployment.
Determine whether a firewall gateway is required and between which components.
Determine the location of any remote monitoring servers.
Determine that an adequate number of Warehouse Proxy agents are planned.
Provide Network administrators with a list of ports to open.
Complete the Warehouse load projection spreadsheet. See Locating and sizing the Warehouse Proxy agent.
Determine the hardware required for your Tivoli Monitoring components.
Download all the required software for your supported operating systems including all monitoring agents.
Complete your deployment Verification Test Plan.
Review the Readme and Documentation Addendum and determine the installation steps based on your platform.
Determine the method of user authentication. See paragraphs below.

Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 supports integration with LDAP user registries for authentication. See the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide for more information.

LDAP SSL requires some actions by an LDAP administrator that are not covered by the Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 documentation. Here are some LDAP SSL Web pages for working with LDAP servers:



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