The information in the next four chapters is based on the
assumptions in this section.
- You have completed the preliminary planning required to determine
the size and topology of your environment and your warehousing needs.
You may have already installed a monitoring server,
a portal server,
and some monitoring agents,
but you have not yet created the Tivoli® Data
Warehouse.
- You are not installing IBM® Tivoli Monitoring on one computer.
- You will create the Tivoli Data
Warehouse database on a different computer from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Server.
- If
installing the warehouse database on Microsoft SQL Server,
you will also install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server on
a Windows-based computer. This restriction applies even if the warehouse
database and portal server are
installed on separate computers. For example, a portal server on Linux does not support a warehouse
database using Microsoft SQL Server.
- If you are upgrading from IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.1,
you have performed the necessary agent warehouse database upgrade
steps.
The following sections discuss these assumptions in more detail.