Scenario QCF06: Configuring a full RTE with a remote monitoring server and variables enabled

After you have set up a hub monitoring server, whether on z/OS® or on a distributed system, you can create runtime environments (RTEs) that contain remote monitoring servers that report to hub. Any agents configured in the new RTE connect to the local remote monitoring server. If you create a full RTE, subsequent RTEs can share its read-only libraries. By using variables in the new RTE, you can quickly reconfigure operational values without recreating the RTE, or clone the RTE and transport it to other LPARs. Use the IBM-provided template @MDLRFV to create this environment with minimal configuration, or create your own from scratch.

Before you begin

If you intend to enable the self-describing agent feature on the monitoring server, or to configure any products that require a z/OS UNIX System Services file system, make sure that make sure that the required Hierarchical File System (HFS) or z/OS File System has been created or set aside and that it is mounted before you begin configuration. The file system must have access to a Java™ runtime environment running under IBM®'s 31-bit or 64-bit Java SDK Version 5 (or higher) on an HFS or zFS file system.

About this task

This scenario involves five main steps using the configuration software. After you complete these steps, you may have to perform additional configuration outside the software.