Planning ITCAM for Transactions deployment and installation

Ensure that you read this planning and deployment information before installing ITCAM for Transactions.

Note: This documentation assumes that the IBM Tivoli Monitoring infrastructure is installed and running and that data warehouse loads have been checked.

To display ITCAM for Transactions monitoring data in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you first install the ITCAM for Transactions components and application support files.

Before you install ITCAM for Transactions, you must first plan the distribution of the Internet Service Monitoring, Response Time, and Transaction Tracking components. After you have installed the ITCAM for Transactions components, you can install their subcomponents. The naming of the subcomponents and the way in which they are installed is unique to each component:

Internet Service Monitoring monitors are installed by the Internet Service Monitoring installer.
Response Time monitoring agents T3 - T6 are installed separately by the Response Time installer.
Transaction Tracking Data Collector plug-ins are optional and, except for MQ Tracking and Data Collector for WebSphere Message Broker, are installed separately with their own installers.

You can install and upgrade ITCAM for Transactions components by using the individual installers for each component.

Install a component either on a computer by itself or on a computer with an installed Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server, Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, or Tivoli Enterprise Portal client.

Installing ITCAM for Transactions is a three step process as shown in Figure 1 where you first plan the installation deployment, then install ITCAM for Transactions, and finally expand the installation.

Figure 1. Deployment process

Diagram showing that users should install Agentless Transaction Tracking if they don’t know their topology

Checklists are provided next and further information is provided in later topics.