Monitoring, Version 6.2
The table below lists the staffing and time estimates for various Tivoli Monitoring tasks.
| Tivoli Monitoring tasks | Hours required | Number of people required | Skills required |
|---|---|---|---|
| Discussing the project plan including implementation and support in place by IBM® | 16 | 2 | Medium |
| Downloading the correct media for installation | 8 hours | 1 | Medium |
| Completing the hardware check | 4 hours | 1 | Medium |
| Creating the warehouse database with sufficient space, user IDs and tuning parameters | 4 | 1 | High (DBA) |
| Configuring firewall for ports | 8 | 1 | High (Network Team) |
| Installing core components (portal server, monitoring server, Warehouse Proxy agent,
and Summarization and Pruning agent).
Note:
Installing core components depends on the
size of the environment and the complexity regarding multiple Warehouse Proxy
agents. |
20 | 2 | High |
| Disabling the default situations | 2 | 1 | Medium |
| Creating the managed systems list | 8 | 1 | Medium |
| Creating the custom situations | 32 | 2 | Medium |
| Deploying first 50 mix of Windows® OS, UNIX® and Linux® OS and different application agents | 40 | 1 | High |
| Deploying situations to appropriate managed systems lists | 8 | 1 | Medium |
| Verifying all agents and core components are active and working correctly | 40 | 2 | High |
| Verifying events flowing to Tivoli Enterprise Console server | 4 | 1 | Medium |
| Backing up the environment (core components) | 4 | 1 | High |
| Deploying agents in chunks of 100 agents, depending upon the requirement. Sizing includes adding computers to the managed systems lists. | 24 | 2 | Medium |
| Enabling only required attribute groups for warehousing as mentioned in the project plan | 8 | 1 | Medium |
| Verifying warehouse data is flowing from agents to warehouse database | 8 | 1 | High |
| Performing frequent health checks of the environment, more frequent in first few months and then later less frequent checks | 4 | 1 | High |
| Creating and deploying custom monitoring solutions with the Universal Agents - simple agents | 8 | 1 | Medium |
| Creating and deploying custom monitoring solutions with the Universal Agents - complex agents | 40 | 1 | High |
Use the following Project Plan as a template to ensure that all tasks are planned during your installation. This Project Plan is located on the AA&BSM Technical Exchange wiki at http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/wikis/pages/viewpageattachments.action?pageId=9595.
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