Installation considerations

Before installing Internet Service Monitoring consider how you want to deploy the product, the size of the resources needed, the scalability of the Internet service monitors, and whether you require historical reporting.

Planning deployment
If you want to use the graphical configuration, management, and reporting features of Internet Service Monitoring, you must install it into an IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment. This environment can be fully distributed. If you plan to use the product purely as an event source for IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus, IBM Tivoli Monitoring is not required.
Sizing guidelines
Service monitoring activities use network, disk, and database resources. For this reason, guidelines are provided to assist you with sizing and scaling of the Internet Service Monitoring deployment.
Monitor scalability and performance
The scalability and performance of Internet service monitors directly affects the volume of services that you can monitor.
Historical reporting
The Internet service monitoring workspaces in Tivoli Enterprise Portal show the most recent test results. By default, these results are the results of the last hour. You can configure IBM Tivoli Monitoring to store the test results thus providing access to historical data for short-term or long-term reporting in the history workspaces.
Installation of support files
In addition to installing Internet Service Monitoring, you must install support files for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring components that are used by Internet Service Monitoring.

Parent topic: Planning to install Internet Service Monitoring