Firewalls can be a significant factor in most Tivoli® Data Warehouse implementations.
The following minimum requirements must be met:
- The Warehouse Proxy Agent must
be able to communicate with:
- The database
- The hub monitoring server
- The agents that are exporting data
- The Summarization and Pruning Agent must
be able to communicate with:
- The database
- The monitoring server it
is configured to communicate with (not necessarily the hub)
- The Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
Note: The
default
Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server interface
port of 15001 is also used after the initial connection of the
Summarization and Pruning Agent to
the
portal server over
port 1920. Any firewalls between the two need to allow communications
on either 15001 or whichever port is defined for any new
Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server interface
used per the instructions in
Defining a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server interface on Windows.
- The agents exporting data to the Warehouse Proxy Agent must
be able to communicate with the Warehouse Proxy Agent.
Firewalls contains information on the
firewall options available. The IBM® redbook Tivoli Management Services Warehouse
and Reporting, available from http://www.redbooks.ibm.com, discusses
firewall considerations specific to the Tivoli Data Warehouse in detail.