ITCAM for SOA 7.2 Fix Pack 1

Required software

The software prerequisites for upgrading to ITCAM for SOA version 7.2 and installing or updating to ITCAM for SOA version 7.2 Fix Pack 1 are covered in the following sections:

Tivoli Monitoring

For Tivoli® Monitoring software requirements, refer to the planning and installation information in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Installation and Setup Guide provided with Tivoli Monitoring. If you plan to write historical data to a warehouse database for later retrieval and analysis by Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces, the IBM® Web Services Navigator or Tivoli Common Reporting, see the additional information about setting up data warehousing (including configuring the Warehouse Proxy agent and Summarization and Pruning agent).

See IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Installation and Setup Guide for information about the software environments that are supported by the following Tivoli Monitoring components:

Check your Tivoli Monitoring documentation regularly for operating system patches that are required.

ITCAM for SOA software requirements

See the Software product compatibility reports website to generate various reports that are related to product and component requirements.

To view the system requirements for server-side components in ITCAM for SOA version 7.2 and later, see the Server-side components detailed system requirements report.

To view the system requirements for agent-side components in ITCAM for SOA version 7.2 and later, see the Agent-side components detailed system requirements report.

Restriction:
  • On a Linux 64-bit operating system, the following set of graphical libraries must be installed in 32-bit and 64-bit for the 32- bit Java™ version to work properly:
    • libXmu
    • libXp
    • libXtst
    • libXft
    The Linux system requires these libraries to display graphics with X Window System. If these libraries are missing, the installer might not start in GUI mode.
  • The ITCAM for SOA monitoring workspaces in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal do not support web browsers running Oracle Java SDKs.

Data Collector for WebSphere Message Broker cross product dependency

In ITCAM for SOA version 7.2.0.1, a new data collector, Data Collector for WebSphere® Message Broker, is introduced to monitor WebSphere Message Broker environments. The data collector provides support for both 32-bit and 64-bit broker processes on various platforms.

The specific operating system and bit mode combinations that are supported by the data collector for WebSphere Message Broker version 6.1 are as follows:
Table 1. Broker processes supported by operating system by the data collector for WebSphere Message Broker version 6.1
Operating system WebSphere Message Broker version 6.1
32-bit process 64-bit process
AIX® X X
HP-UX PA-RISC X X
Linux on x86 X  
Linux on x86-64 X X
Linux on System z®   X
Linux on Power®   X
Solaris SPARC X X
Windows 32 bit X  
The specific operating system and bit mode combinations that are supported by the data collector for WebSphere Message Broker version 7.0 and version 8.0 are as follows:
Table 2. Broker processes supported by operating system by the data collector for WebSphere Message Broker version 7.0 and version 8.0
Operating system WebSphere Message Broker version 7.0 and version 8.0
32-bit process 64-bit process
AIX   X
Linux on x86 X  
Linux on x86-64   X
Linux on System z   X
Linux on Power   X
Solaris SPARC   X
Windows 32 bit X  
Windows 64 bit X X
Parent topic: Software and hardware prerequisites

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