IBM AIX Enterprise Edition System Administration
Guide
May 2009
International Technical Support Organization
SG24-7738-00
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First Edition (May 2009)
This edition applies to IBM AIX Enterprise Edition 6.1 (product number 5765-AEZ).
Note: Before using this information and the product it supports, read the information in
“Notices” on page xvii.
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Contents
Figures . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . vii
Tables . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xiii
Examples. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xv
Notices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xvii
Trademarks . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xviii
Preface . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
The team that wrote this book . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xix
Become a published author . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Comments welcome. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . xxi
Chapter 1. Introduction and overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 1
1.1 AIX Enterprise Edition . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.2 Comparing AIX offerings . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 2
1.3 IBM Service Management (ISM) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
1.4 Components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 4
1.5 Integration of the components. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 6
1.6 Advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.7 Hardware prerequisites . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 7
1.8 Lab overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
Chapter 2. Planning and sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 9
2.1 Planning and sizing virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.1.1 Virtualization advantages . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 10
2.2 Planning and sizing logical partitions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3 Planning and sizing Workload Partition Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 11
2.3.1 Additional resources for virtualization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.4 Planning and sizing DB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.4.1 DB2 installation requirements for DB2 server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 12
2.4.2 DB2 file systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.4.3 DB2 users and groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2.5 Planning and sizing IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2.5.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring processor considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 15
2.5.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring memory and disk sizing requirements . . . . . . 15
2.5.3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring database estimation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2.5.4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring server protocols and values . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
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2.5.5 IBM Tivoli Monitoring additional considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.6 Planning and sizing TADDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2.6.1 TADDM terminology and architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 19
2.6.2 TADDM hardware sizing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 22
2.7 Planning and sizing IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager . . . . . . . 23
2.7.1 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager architecture . . . . . . . . . 24
2.7.2 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager requirements . . . . . . . . 25
2.7.3 Estimating IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager database size .
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Chapter 3. Installation and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 29
3.1 Launchpad. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3.2 Installing and configuring DB2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3.3 Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3.3.1 Pre-installation preparation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 51
3.3.2 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring from the Launchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . 52
3.3.3 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3.3.4 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 66
3.3.5 Install and configure the Base agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3.3.6 Install and configure System p agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
3.3.7 Installing the Warehouse Proxy agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3.3.8 Installing the Summarization and Pruning agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3.3.9 Configuring and starting the Virtual I/O Server agent . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
3.3.10 Viewing the Tivoli Enterprise Console. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
3.4 Installing and configuring TADDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
3.4.1 Preparing AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
3.4.2 Install DB2. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 99
3.4.3 Create DB2 database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
3.4.4 Install TADDM 7.1 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
3.4.5 DNSLookup configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
3.5 Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager . . 117
3.5.1 Our lab environment . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
3.5.2 Installation process overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
3.5.3 Installing the Application server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 119
3.5.4 Database configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3.5.5 Set up the processing directories . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
3.5.6 Run sample jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
3.5.7 AIX and Virtual I/O Server data collectors. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
3.5.8 AIX Advanced Accounting overview . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
3.5.9 AIX data collector installation and configuration . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
3.6 Installing and configuring WPAR manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
3.6.1 WPAR concept . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 150
3.6.2 WPAR Manager components and functions . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 152
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Chapter 4. Operations. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 159
4.1 Live Application Mobility . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 160
4.2 Operating TM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
4.2.1 Workspaces . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
4.2.2 Views. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 161
4.2.3 Managing Tivoli Monitoring Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
4.2.4 Historical data collection . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
4.2.5 Understanding situation events. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 172
4.2.6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring command line . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 175
4.2.7 The cinfo command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 182
4.2.8 The SetPerm command . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
4.2.9 Best practices . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
4.3 Operating TADDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
4.3.1 Starting and stopping the TADDM server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 185
4.3.2 Discover components . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
4.3.3 Customizing TADDM. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
4.3.4 Analytics and reporting . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
4.3.5 Performance considerations . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
4.4 Operating IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 237
4.4.1 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager collectors . . . . . . . . . . 237
4.4.2 Collecting AIX and VIOS accounting data. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
4.4.3 Loading AIX accounting data into the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 242
4.4.4 Installing Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT) . . . . . 250
4.4.5 Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager . . . . . 266
Abbreviations and acronyms . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 271
Related publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
IBM Redbooks publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 277
Other publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Online resources . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
How to get IBM Redbooks publications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 278
Help from IBM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 279
Index . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 281
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1-1 ITSO project infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 8
2-1 Tivoli data warehouse database size estimation worksheet . . . . . . . . . . . 17
2-2 Multiple Domain Servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 20
2-3 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager architecture . . . . . . . . . . . . . 25
3-1 License agreement for ME for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 33
3-2 The main page of the Launchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 34
3-3 License agreement for ME for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 36
3-4 Installing DB2 through Launchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3-5 Selecting DB2 setup directory. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 37
3-6 Installing a product panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 38
3-7 Welcome to the DB2 Setup wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 39
3-8 Software License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 40
3-9 Selecting the installation type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 41
3-10 Selecting install, response file creation, or both panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 42
3-11 Select the installation directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 43
3-12 Set user information for the DB2 Administration Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . 44
3-13 Set up a DB2 instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 45
3-14 Set up notifications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 46
3-15 Start copying files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3-16 installation progress panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 47
3-17 Setup has completed successfully . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3-18 Lab environment self-monitoring topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 50
3-19 Launchpad Initial window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 53
3-20 Installing Tivoli Monitoring options from the Launchpad . . . . . . . . . . . . . 54
3-21 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 55
3-22 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 56
3-23 Installation progress information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 57
3-24 Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server Installation. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 58
3-25 Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server Installation completion . . . . . . . . . . 59
3-26 Additional configuration options . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 60
3-27 Installing the application support for the agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 65
3-28 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installation window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 67
3-29 Installation setup directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 68
3-30 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installation progress window . . . . . . . . . 69
3-31 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installation success window . . . . . . . . . . 70
3-32 Installing the TEPS support for monitoring agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 71
3-33 Select installation path . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 72
3-34 Configuring the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
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3-35 Installing the Base agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 78
3-36 Installing Base agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 79
3-37 Base agents successfully installed . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 80
3-38 Configuration options for the Base agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
3-39 Agent configuration shell. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 81
3-40 Starting the Base agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 82
3-41 Installation options window for System p agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 83
3-42 System p agents installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 84
3-43 Configure System p agents window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 85
3-44 Installation parameters for System p agents. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 86
3-45 Starting the System p agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 87
3-46 Installing the Warehouse Proxy agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 88
3-47 Installation information window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 89
3-48 Configuring the Warehouse Proxy agent . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 90
3-49 Installing the Summarization and Pruning agent. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 91
3-50 Tivoli Enterprise Console login window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 96
3-51 Enterprise view of the environment. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 97
3-52 Launchpad to install TADDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 101
3-53 Prompt for database and TADDM on a separate server. . . . . . . . . . . . 102
3-54 Selecting TADDM setup directory . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 102
3-55 InstallShield Wizard Welcome panel. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 103
3-56 License Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 104
3-57 Selecting the installation directory for TADDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 105
3-58 Defining a TADDM user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 106
3-59 Choose the installation type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 107
3-60 Selecting server type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 108
3-61 Port information for TADDM Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 109
3-62 Port information for domain manager server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 110
3-63 Specifying RMI information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 111
3-64 Optional CCMDB host name and port. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 112
3-65 Select database type. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 113
3-66 Database configuration information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 114
3-67 Select user registry . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 115
3-68 Summary information . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 116
3-69 Completion of TADDM installation . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 117
3-70 TUAM lab set up . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 118
3-71 Create database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 120
3-72 Successful database completion message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 121
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3-74 CD prompt. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 122
3-75 InstallShield Wizard for Usage and Accounting Manager. . . . . . . . . . . 123
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Agreement . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 124
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installation completion message. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 127
3-80 Integrated Solutions Console Welcome page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 129
3-81 Adding JDBC driver db2jcc.jar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 132
3-82 Adding JDBC driver db2jcc_license_cu.jar . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 133
3-83 Adding or editing a data source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 134
3-84 Setting the Default Admin, Processing, and Reporting data source . . . 135
3-85 Data Source ISC window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 136
3-86 Initialize database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 137
3-87 Confirmation window for database initialization . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 138
3-88 Results of database initialization. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 139
3-89 ISC Configuration Processing . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 140
3-90 ISC Configuration tab Reporting page . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 141
3-91 Sample log output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 142
3-92 Load tracking. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 143
3-93 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager data flow. . . . . . . . . . . . . . 144
3-94 WPARs reduce LPARs but still provide workload isolation. . . . . . . . . . 151
3-95 Components of WPAR Manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 153
4-1 Table view . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 162
4-2 Pie chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 163
4-3 Bar chart . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 164
4-4 Plot chart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 165
4-5 Circular gauge. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 166
4-6 Linear gauge . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 167
4-7 Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 169
4-8 History Collection Configuration window. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 170
4-9 Situation Editor . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 173
4-10 Attributes of a situation formula. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
4-11 Situation event indicators (states) . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 174
4-12 TADDM console . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
4-13 Open or save the configuration file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 187
4-14 Login panel . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 188
4-15 Scope Set Name . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 189
4-16 Adding scope . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 190
4-17 Adding a computer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 191
4-18 Adding a database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 193
4-19 The list of computer systems and the database . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 194
4-20 Running discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 196
4-21 Discovery Log Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 197
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4-22 Reload the view. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 198
4-23 List search. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 199
4-24 Selecting IBM AIX Computer System . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 200
4-25 Show Details . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 201
4-26 Details of a computer system . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 202
4-27 Selecting a DB2 instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 203
4-28 Details of a database instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 204
4-29 Topology for Application Infrastructure . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 205
4-30 Zooming in on topology. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 206
4-31 Physical Infrastructure. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 207
4-32 Showing the details of a server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 208
4-33 Schedule discovery . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 209
4-34 Defining the scope in the discovery schedule . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 210
4-35 History of discovery. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 211
4-36 Creating a version . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 212
4-37 Collecting unknown servers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 213
4-38 Identifying unknown server patterns . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 214
4-39 Creating a custom server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 215
4-40 Selecting config files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 216
4-41 Repositioning a custom server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 217
4-42 Sendmail custom server discovered . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 218
4-43 Creating a Business Application . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 219
4-44 Assigning components for the Business Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 220
4-45 Administrative information. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
4-46 Creating a second Business Application. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 221
4-47 Assigning components for the second Business Application . . . . . . . . 222
4-48 Showing Business Applications . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 223
4-49 Creating a Business Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 224
4-50 Creating Business Service Wizard . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 225
4-51 Assigning Business Applications to the Business Service . . . . . . . . . . 225
4-52 Showing the Business Service . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 226
4-53 Selecting Physical Topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 227
4-54 Showing the physical topology . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 228
4-55 Change History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
4-56 Results of Change History . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 230
4-57 Editing Computer Systems . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 231
4-58 Adding Config Files . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 232
4-59 Selecting component type for Inventory report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 233
4-60 Inventory report by component type . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 234
4-61 File name and type for the inventory report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 235
4-62 Sample output of inventory report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 236
4-63 Creating a new job by using the ISC. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 243
4-64 SampleAIXAA.xml. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
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4-65 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Job Runner . . . . . . . . . . . 248
4-66 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Job Runner complete
message . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 249
4-67 Log files. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 250
4-68 Eclipse folder. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 252
4-69 Eclipse security warning . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
4-70 BIRT Workspace Launcher . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 253
4-71 New project window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 254
4-72 New Report Project . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 255
4-73 BIRT main window . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 256
4-74 Edit data Source . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
4-75 Manage JDBC Drivers . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 257
4-76 Manage JDBC Drivers completion . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
4-77 Database connection test . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 258
4-78 Edit Data Set . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 259
4-79 Edit SQL Query . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 260
4-80 Setting report parameters . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 261
4-81 Run Total Invoice BIRT report. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 262
4-82 BIRT Run Total Invoice report PDF . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 264
4-83 BIRT Invoice . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 265
4-84 BIRT Rate Report . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 266
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Tables
1-1 AIX offerings and tools . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 3
2-1 Installation requirements for DB2 Server . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 13
2-2 Default DB2 user IDs and groups . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
2-3 Memory and disk requirements. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 16
2-4 Tivoli Monitoring server protocols . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 18
2-5 Entities discovered by TADDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 21
2-6 Minimum software requirements for IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2-7 Core requisite file . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 26
2-8 Table estimation and mapping . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 28
3-1 The list of media that is included in EE for AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 30
3-2 DB2 database users . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 48
3-3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring product codes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 77
3-4 AIX Advanced Accounting record types . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 145
3-5 Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager AIX collector installation files. . . 146
4-1 Chart types and their best uses . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 168
4-2 Discovery profiles by default in TADDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 195
4-3 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager processing scripts . . . . . . . 237
4-4 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager cron job descriptions . . . . . 240
4-5 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager cron job log files. . . . . . . . . 240
4-6 Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager trace and log file information . . . 270
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2-1 Custom DB2 user ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 14
3-1 Installing Firefox on AIX . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 31
3-2 File systems created for DB2 . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 35
3-3 Creating users for db2 instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3-4 Creating DB2 instance . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 49
3-5 Tivoli Enterprise Manager Installation Output . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 61
3-6 Installation of the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 62
3-7 Installation completion. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 63
3-8 The cinfo command displaying running processes . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 64
3-9 Starting the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server from the command line . 66
3-10 The itmcmd multi agent start. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 75
3-11 IBM Tivoli Monitoring application Group ID and user ID . . . . . . . . . . . . . 92
3-12 User and Group ownership in the $CANDLEHOME directory . . . . . . . . 93
3-13 Showing itm1 running agents . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 94
3-14 Installing and configuring sudo . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 98
3-15 Creating database for TADDM . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 100
3-16 TUAM embedded WAS server restart. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 128
3-17 Connecting to database and listing buffer pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
3-18 Creation of larger buffer pool . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
3-19 Creation of a regular table space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
3-20 Creation of temporary table space . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 130
3-21 Restarting the database manager. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 131
3-22 Installation script: install-tuam.sh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 146
3-23 The install-tuam.sh output. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 148
3-24 Configuration and start of data collector on Virtual I/O Server . . . . . . . 150
4-1 The cinfo command. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
4-2 The cinfo product details for the TEMS. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 183
4-3 Running Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring processes. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 184
4-4 Start or stop TADDM server as a TADDM admin user . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 186
4-5 Editing /etc/hosts. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 229
4-6 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager processing script:
tuam-getdata.sh . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 238
4-7 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager cron jobs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 239
4-8 Data collection: tuam-getdata.sh. . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 241
4-9 AIXAA.xml . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 244
4-10 Increasing UDB Transaction Logs . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . . 267
4-11 File system sizes in AIX and file system full condition . . . . . . . . . . . . . 268
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Preface
This IBM® Redbooks® publication will help you install, tailor, and configure AIX®
Enterprise Edition 6.1 (5765-AEZ) and its incorporated IBM Tivoli® systems
management tools.
This publication provides AIX Systems Administrators a broad understanding of
the new features and products that make up the AIX Enterprise Edition offering.
It will help you design or create a solution to maximize efficiencies and help
organizations get the most from their Power Systems™ platform.
AIX Enterprise Edition includes all the features of AIX with additional
management software that is designed to complement the features of AIX V6.1.
AIX Enterprise Edition is available only with AIX V6.1. AIX Enterprise Edition is
designed to improve the manageability of a virtualized AIX environment.
Potential benefits include:
Improved service availability through access to relevant, real-time information
about IT resources
Enhanced operational efficiency through visualization of the relationships of
IT resources and applications
Improved operational efficiency by centralizing monitoring and automating the
response to service issues
Better utilization of IT resources through consolidated views of virtualized
resource usage
Improved service availability through Live Application Mobility
Simplified ordering of AIX and essential service management tools at an
attractive price
The team that wrote this book
This book was produced by a team of specialists from around the world working
at the International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center.
Shane Brandon is a Senior IT Specialist at IBM Australia. He has 11 years of
experience in AIX and Power Systems, pSeries®, and RS/6000® hardware. He
has been with IBM for five years. Shane is a Certified Advanced Technical
Expert System p® as of 2006 and a Certified Systems Administrator Tivoli
Storage Manager V5. His areas of expertise include Operating System
xx IBM AIX Enterprise Edition System Administration Guide
provisionng, Network Installation Management (NIM), Security, and PowerHA™.
He also co-authored Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1,
SG24-7656.
Erin Fitzgerald is a Senior System Administrator at IBM United States. She has
14 years of experience in AIX and Linux® systems on Power Systems and
System x® hardware. She has worked at IBM for 13 years. Erin is an AIX
Certified Advanced Technical Expert. Her areas of expertise include NIM, Cluster
Systems Management (CSM), and security.
SeongLul Son is a Senior IT specialist working at IBM Korea. He has 13 years
of experience in the IT industry and is a Certified Advanced Technical Expert for
System p. His areas of expertise include networking, Power Systems
virtualization, NIM, PowerHA, and General Parallel File System (GPFS™). He
also co-authored the Deploying Oracle 10g RAC on AIX 5L with GPFS,
SG24-7541, AIX 5L Version 5.3 Differences Guide, SG24-7463, and AIX 5L and
Windows 2000: Solutions for Interoperability, SG24-6225.
Scott Vetter, PMP, managed the project that produced this publication.
Thanks to the following people for their contributions to this project:
Anirban Chatterjee, Jay Kruemcke, Jennifer Kuvlesky, Yoichiro Ishii
IBM, Austin
Bob Pitt and Mark Matthews
IBM, Australia
JinHyung Cho, SeHee Kim, JungJun Lim, HyunKuk Moon, and RaeSung Park
IBM Korea
Prince Ravindran
IBM India
Alex Abderrazag
IBM, UK
Henning Gammelmark
Bankdata, Denmark
David Bennin, Don Brennan, Rich Conway, Ann Lund, and Emma Jacobs
International Technical Support Organization, Poughkeepsie Center
A special thanks to Budi Darmawan of International Technical Support
Organization, Austin Center. Budi’s expertise and product knowledge along with
his willingness to assist the team significantly contributed to and greatly aided in
developing the depth and quality of this book.
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Chapter 1. Introduction and overview
In this chapter, we introduce AIX Enterprise Edition. We provide an overview of
the individual components that make up the AIX Enterprise Edition offering and
list their key features.
We describe the management functions and discuss the benefits of
implementing AIX Enterprise Edition on your IBM Power Systems servers:
1.1, “AIX Enterprise Edition” on page 2
1.2, “Comparing AIX offerings” on page 2
1.3, “IBM Service Management (ISM)” on page 3
1.4, “Components” on page 4
1.5, “Integration of the components” on page 6
1.6, “Advantages” on page 7
1.7, “Hardware prerequisites” on page 7
1.8, “Lab overview” on page 8
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1.1 AIX Enterprise Edition
AIX Enterprise Edition is designed and packaged to enable administrators and
organizations to simplify the managing and monitoring of their virtualized Power
Systems-based environments. The AIX Enterprise Edition offering incorporates a
suite of service management and monitoring tools designed to improve
availability, enhance the operational efficiency of the systems within the
environment, and to track, measure, and report on resource utilization and
usage.
The AIX Enterprise Edition offering allows organizations to maximize all of the
capabilities of virtualization, security, and performance of AIX 6.1, combined with
the enterprise service management features of tools, such as Workload Partition
Manager, IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM), IBM
Tivoli Monitoring, IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, and DB2®
Enterprise Server Edition ( DB2 ESE), that allow the systems administrators to
manage the environment in a more holistic way.
1.2 Comparing AIX offerings
Table 1-1 on page 3 outlines and identifies the differences among several
offerings for use with AIX on the Power Systems platform. It describes what is
included with each offering and the functions of the tools and products
associated with them.
Note: AIX Enterprise Edition is exclusive to the AIX Version 6.1 operating
system. Management Edition (ME) for AIX provides a similar suite of service
management tools for managing and monitoring Power Systems running the
AIX Version 5.3 or AIX Version 6.1 operating system.
Chapter 1. Introduction and overview 3
Table 1-1 AIX offerings and tools
1.3 IBM Service Management (ISM)
Today, companies focus on providing innovative services. To deliver these
services, IT and operations departments must strive to guarantee compliance,
security, and continuous uptime, which all play a part in helping to ensure these
business services are effectively performed to support the organization’s
business goals. Yet, it is common for companies with organizational silos and
traditional implementations to become entrenched in managing individual areas,
such as IT infrastructure technologies, single product revenues and expenses,
individual processes, and organizational efficiencies, instead of managing
integrated solutions and services delivered by the sum of all these components.
Offering Description OS support OS included
AIX Enterprise Edition (EE) AIX 6 including the Workload Partition
Manager, Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli
Application Dependency Discovery
Manager, and Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager Virtualization
Edition
AIX 6.1 Yes
Management Edition (ME) for
AIX
Tivoli Monitoring, Tivoli Application
Dependency Discovery Manager, and
Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager Virtualization Edition
AIX 6.1 and
AIX 5.3
No
AIX Standard Edition The AIX operating system AIX 6.1, AIX
5.3, and AIX
5.2
Ye s
Performance Management
for Power Systems
Remote performance reporting AIX 6.1, AIX
5.3, and
IBM i
No
PowerVM™ Workload
Partitions Manager™ for AIX
(Workload Partition Manager)
Cross-systems management for
Workload Partitions and enablement
for Live Application Mobility
AIX 6.1 No
IBM Systems Director Cross-system platform management AIX, Linux
(Linux on
system z, p,
and x), IBM i,
and
Windows®
No
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When these areas are isolated, there can be penalties for noncompliance and
service level violations.
Enter IBM Service Management, a way to align your organization and all its
related functions with your business. IBM Service Management encompasses
the management processes, tactics, and best practices needed to deliver
business services. IBM Service Management is about developing, deploying,
and managing services, helping to reduce IT and operations costs by automating
processes, and helping to more effectively manage compliance. It is about
increasing flexibility and getting products, solutions, and services to market more
quickly. It is about helping to respond to changes more efficiently and effectively
than ever before.
IBM Service Management is designed with one thing in mind: to help you
manage your business. Because IBM understands that IT and operations are
very much a part of your business, we offer powerful tools to help you align the
four primary components of your business:
People
Processes
Information
Technology
IBM Service Management lets you pull these critical components together with
an array of tightly integrated solutions that can be viewed as three
interconnected layers:
IBM Process Management
IBM Operational Management
IBM Service Management Platform
1.4 Components
The AIX Enterprise Edition offering consists of a number of individual tools that
combine to give an overall package designed to meet all the management and
monitoring needs of the Power systems servers within the environment.
The AIX Enterprise Edition package bundle consists of:
AIX Version 6.1
PowerVM Workload Partitions Manager for AIX (WPAR Manager)
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM)
Chapter 1. Introduction and overview 5
IBM Tivoli Usage Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition for Power
Systems
An embedded version of DB2 Enterprise Server Edition (ESE)
Note that this component is only offered for use with the Tivoli components
PowerVM Workload Partition Manager for AIX
Workload Partition (WPAR) Manager provides a single centralized point of
control for the management of Workload Partitions in AIX 6.1. Workload Partition
Manager enables Live Application Mobility, which allows for the relocation of
Workload Partitions from one host to another host without disruption to the
applications running in the Workload Partition.
Workload Partition Manager can be used to manage automated relocation
policies for moving Workload Partitions between systems based on specified
metrics, such as system load. Workload Partition manager is a browser-based
interface that provides the ability for an administrator to create, clone, and
remove Workload Partition definitions, or start and stop Workload Partitions from
an easy to use management interface. It also contains application programming
interfaces (APIs) that allow IBM Tivoli Monitoring to capture data. For further
technical information about IBM PowerVM Workload Portion Manager for AIX
refer to:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247656.html?Open
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for AIX is designed to monitor the health and performance
of Power systems servers while having the ability to capture and analyze data.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for AIX allows a system administrator to determine trending
and forecast future usage to aid capacity planning and to assist in the overall
manageability of the environment.
IBM Tivoli Monitoring for AIX includes best practice solutions created by
developers, which include predetermined thresholds for alerting on key metrics.
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal allows an administrator a comprehensive graphical
view of the state of the AIX operating system, logical partitions (LPARs),
Workload Partitions, server hardware, Hardware Management Console (HMC),
and Virtual I/O Server resources.
You can obtain additional product information at:
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/monitor
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IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager (TADDM) uncovers
application dependencies and configurations in your enterprise environment.
TADDM uses the application mapping and agent-less, credential-free discovery
capabilities of application dependency software to see relationships among
applications, computer systems, and network devices in your environment.
TADDM discovers configurations and maps applications, changes, and address
compliance measures. It can capture the configuration of each dependency,
track changes to it, and provide information for analysis in order to report the
history of configuration changes so that an administrator can see how
configuration items have been configured and how they change over time.
TADDM compares the discovered configurations to a
reference policy, can
reveal policy violations, and determine if configurations comply with your policies.
You can obtain detailed information about the IBM Tivoli Application Dependency
Discovery Manager at:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247616.html?Open
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, Virtualization Edition delivers to the
organization the ability to accurately track and report on usage across the Power
Systems AIX environment. This product can determining resource consumption
and utilization for business units, departments, or individuals in order to assist
organizations in managing their assets and costs and to highlight where
efficiencies can be made.
You can obtain further information at:
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/usage-accounting
1.5 Integration of the components
AIX Enterprise Edition provides integration among the tools, such as IBM Tivoli
Monitoring and IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager, to
provide a foundation for service management across the Power Systems within
your environment.
These tools are designed to deliver a set of capabilities that will assist you in
getting the most from your AIX virtualized environment. AIX Enterprise Edition is
designed to complement the platform management capabilities of the IBM
Systems Director.
Chapter 1. Introduction and overview 7
1.6 Advantages
The enterprise service management tools that make up the AIX Enterprise
Edition offering have been designed make the manageability of AIX virtualized
environments more efficient and to allow organizations to maximize the
performance and utilization of their Power Systems environments.
The AIX Enterprise Edition provides visualization of system resources and
application utilization and their behavior either in a historical view or in real time.
It provides for a single central interface for monitoring and automation of all
aspects of the environment and the ability to manipulate systems within the
environment as well as to monitor the usage and accounting from all AIX hosts in
the environment.
Live Application Mobility and the centralization function of the Workload Partition
Manager provide for a single point of control in the environment for managing
Workload Partitions (WPARs). Workload Partition Manager for AIX provides for
improved system utilization and application performance by enabling more
efficient load balancing throughout the operating system and enterprise
environment. It improves application availability by giving the systems
administrator the flexibility to seamlessly relocate workloads from one host to
another host without disruption to the application, thus, increasing availability by
reducing the need for planned outages due to system maintenance.
1.7 Hardware prerequisites
AIX Enterprise Edition has no prerequisites beyond the prerequisites of AIX
Version 6.1 and can, therefore, be utilized on any hardware platform that
supports the AIX 6 Operating System, including:
IBM pSeries POWER4™ technology-based servers
IBM System p POWER5™ technology-based servers
IBM Power Systems POWER6™ technology-based servers
IBM BladeCenter® JS21 with PowerPC® 970 processors
IBM BladeCenter JS22 with POWER6 processors
Note: For the latest supported servers, see:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/sysmgmt/enterprise/
requirements.html
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1.8 Lab overview
The ITSO infrastructure setup for this project, which is seen in Figure 1-1,
consisted of:
IBM System p 550 (9113-550)
Two Power Systems 570s (9117-MMA)
A Hardware Management Console
IBM TotalStorage® DS4800 (1815-88A)
The System p 550 was configured as a Network Installation Management (NIM)
server and provided a centralized management role for our environment. Each of
the Power Systems 570 servers were configured with a Virtual I/O Server, four
partitions (one for each of the Tivoli products), and a generic AIX partition that
hosted several Workload Partitions for both application and system.
Figure 1-1 ITSO project infrastructure
550
570
570
Syst em Stor age DS4200
4GB/s2GB/s
POWER 550
NIM Server
NFS Server for
Application Mobility
POWER6 570
lpar01 – aix
lpar02 – itm
lpar03 – taddm
lpar04 – tuam
POWER6 570
lpar01 – aix10
lpar02 – itm10
lpar03 – taddm10
lpar04 – tuam10
ThinkVision
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Chapter 2. Planning and sizing
In this chapter, we discuss the planning and sizing considerations for the
installation and configuration of AIX 6.1 Enterprise Edition. We look at the
requirements for planning the installation of each of the Tivoli tools included with
Enterprise Edition, as well as Workload Partition Manager. We also provide a
brief overview of logical partitioning (LPAR) and Workload Partition sizing:
2.1, “Planning and sizing virtualization” on page 10
2.2, “Planning and sizing logical partitions” on page 11
2.3, “Planning and sizing Workload Partition Manager” on page 11
2.4, “Planning and sizing DB2” on page 12
2.5, “Planning and sizing IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2” on page 14
2.6, “Planning and sizing TADDM” on page 18
2.7, “Planning and sizing IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager” on
page 23
2
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2.1 Planning and sizing virtualization
Virtualization enables the sharing or the aggregation of physical resources and
the creation of logical resources that are used by AIX V6.1 Enterprise Edition.
AIX V6.1 Enterprise Edition is not aware that it is using virtual resources or how
these resources are implemented.
2.1.1 Virtualization advantages
Several advantages of virtualization are:
Improved hardware utilization
Server hardware resources can be more utilized, by being dynamically
partitioned.
Hardware consolidation
Instead of having multiple small machines with lots of spare capacity, all the
workload can be consolidated on a small number of machines, allowing you
to experience a rapid return on investment (ROI).
Increased flexibility
Virtualization supports the pooling of resources that can be managed
centrally through an enterprise hub to better support changing business
requirements dynamically.
Enabled access through shared infastructure
Virtualization provides a resilient foundation and a shared infastructure that
enable better access to infastructure and information in support of business
applications and service-oriented architectures (SOA).
Rapid provisioning
Virtualization can enable rapid infastructure provisioning, down to the order of
minutes, compared to the order of days in a non-virtualized environment.
Note: Virtualization in this context can be used in two ways. One way is to
divide a resource into smaller pieces, such as a powerful processor in several
logical smaller processors. Another way is to combine smaller resources into a
larger one, which is similar to joining several small disks in one large virtual
disk. Also. virtualization can provide for uniform access to resources.
Chapter 2. Planning and sizing 11
Disaster recovery
Using the rapid provisioning features, additional instances of the application
can be deployed quickly. An image copy of the instance can also be kept in
order to speed up recovery.
Reduced power and cooling requirements
By virtualizing your resources, you can consolidate the load on fewer
machines and reduce the overall power usage and cooling requirements.
2.2 Planning and sizing logical partitions
Each logical partition (LPAR) must have a set of resources available. Shared
processor LPARs, also called
micro-partitions, enable you to partition a
processor into multiple virtual partitions and provide the flexibility to change the
allocation of system resources dynamically.
With the launch of POWER6 processor-based servers, IBM added key features,
such as the ability to migrate a running LPAR between systems (PowerVM Live
Partition Mobility). The minimum LPAR resources that are needed are:
At least 0.1 unit of processor for micro-partitions
At least 256 MB of main memory
At least one disk to store the operating system (for AIX, the rootvg)
At least one disk adapter or integrated adapter to access the disk
At least one LAN adapter per partition to connect to the Hardware
Management Console (HMC)
A partition must have an installation method, such as Network Installation
Management (NIM), and a means of running diagnostics, such as network
diagnostics
2.3 Planning and sizing Workload Partition Manager
AIX workload partitions (WPARs) provide a software-based virtualization solution
for creating and managing multiple AIX operating system environments within a
single AIX-based logical partition. The WPAR provides isolation of software
services, applications, and administration within a single instance of the AIX V6.1
operating system. WPARs can be used on any server platform that is capable of
running AIX V6.1 Enterprise Edition, including POWER4 technology-based
servers and beyond.
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When building a WPAR from the command line, you can configure and start it
within a few minutes:
Network File System (NFS) is a prerequisite to the WPAR mobility
functionality.
At least 256 MB of main memory is required.
At least one disk to store the operating system (for AIX, the rootvg) is
required.
At least one disk adapter or integrated adapter to access the disk is required.
At least one LAN adapter per partition to connect to the HMC is required.
2.3.1 Additional resources for virtualization
There are several additional IBM Redbooks publications about virtualization, as
well as LPAR mobility. Several additional resources on these topics are:
IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility, SG24-7460
Multitenant Utility Computing on IBM Power Systems Running AIX,
SG24-7681
PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Introduction and Configuration
Fourth Edition, SG24-7940
Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1, SG24-7656
2.4 Planning and sizing DB2
The two major considerations when planning the installation of DB2 Enterprise
Server Edition are the space for the package images and then the space
required for the database. In addition to the space requirements, you must create
users for the database administration and instance. We discuss each of these
items in this section.
Note that the DB2 Enterprise Server Edition as part of AIX Enterprise Edition is
an embedded part of the Tivoli components and is not a separately licensed
product.
2.4.1 DB2 installation requirements for DB2 server
You must meet the following operating system, hardware, and communications
prerequisites to install a DB2 server product (Table 2-1 on page 13).
Chapter 2. Planning and sizing 13
Table 2-1 Installation requirements for DB2 Server
2.4.2 DB2 file systems
Planning for installing DB2 includes considering the creation of additional file
systems and, in certain cases, additional Volume Groups, depending on the
environment on which you install DB2. The minimum DB2 installation requires:
/opt/IBM/db2
Approximately 600 MB contains the DB2 source code installed on your
system. This file system is static and does not grow after the initial
installation.
/home/db2inst1
This name is the default name for the database instance home. It varies in
size depending on database configuration and grows over time as data is
added to the database.
You need to consider other DB2 file systems, such as the DB transactional logs
and the database backups. We recommend that these file systems are broken
out into their own file system for better database performance when the database
grows large. For more information about configuring and setting up DB2, refer to
DB2 Deployment Guide, SG24-7653.
2.4.3 DB2 users and groups
Setting up user IDs and groups for DB2 is similar to setting up user IDs and
groups for other applications in AIX. Table 2-2 on page 14 provides a list of the
DB2 default user IDs and the groups that are created as part of the base
installation of DB2.
AIX Version Operating system Hardware
6.1 64-bit AIX kernel
xlC.rte 9.0.0.0
xlC.aix61.rte 9.0.0.0
All processors that are
capable of running the
supported AIX 6.1
operating system: Power 4
or above
Note: The name /home/db2inst1 can be any file system name. In many
installations, the administrator chooses a name for the file system that is
the same name as the application. Therefore, in our example,
/home/db2inst1 is /tuam_data/ituamdb. We recommend that you create
these file systems on a separate AIX Volume Group and not on the rootvg.
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Table 2-2 Default DB2 user IDs and groups
These IDs can be used to create your database instance and install your Tivoli
application, or you can create a custom DB2 user ID and group to help identify
the instance with which the db2 user ID is associated. Example 2-1 shows how to
create a DB2 user ID and group specifically for Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager.
Example 2-1 Custom DB2 user ID
TUAM10:]mkgroup -A uamdbgrp
TUAM10:]mkuser -a “pgrp=uamdbgrp” ituamdb
TUAM10:]mkgroup -A uamdbadm
TUAM10:]mkuser -a “pgrp=uamdbadm” dbadmusr
TUAM10:]mkgroup -A uamfgrp
TUAM10:]mkuser -a “pgrp=uamfgrp” uamfusr
2.5 Planning and sizing IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
In the following sections, we describe the hardware requirements for the IBM
Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 infrastructure for distributed AIX systems. We describe the
following components:
Hub monitoring server
Remote monitoring server
Portal server
Portal client
Tivoli Data Warehouse
Warehouse Proxy agent
Summarization and Pruning agent
User ID Group
dasusr1 dasadm1
db2fenc1 db2fgrp1
db2inst1 db2grp
Chapter 2. Planning and sizing 15
2.5.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring processor considerations
For the best performance, we recommend that you use multiprocessor systems
in the following scenarios:
Running Tivoli Enterprise Portal client on a computer that is also running one
of the server components.
Monitoring the environment of 1000 or more monitored agents with multiple
server components on the same computer. For example:
– Portal server and hub monitoring server
– Monitoring server (hub or remote) and Warehouse Proxy agent
– Warehouse Proxy agent and Summarization and Pruning agent
Running a small environment with all the server components (monitoring
server, portal server, Warehouse Proxy agent, and Summarization and
Pruning agent) on a single computer.
For the Tivoli Data Warehouse database server. Except for a small
installation, use a multiprocessor system for the Tivoli Data Warehouse
database. If you install the Warehouse Proxy agent on the warehouse
database server, consider using a two-way or four-way processor.
If you install the Summarization and Pruning agent on the warehouse
database server (with or without the Warehouse Proxy agent), consider using
a four-way processor. For large environments where more CPU resources
might be needed, we can run the Summarization and Pruning agent on a
computer separate from the warehouse database server. In this case, ensure
that a high-speed network connection exists (100 Mbps or faster) between the
Summarization and Pruning agent and the database server.
2.5.2 IBM Tivoli Monitoring memory and disk sizing requirements
Table 2-3 on page 16 shows the estimated memory and disk storage
requirements for IBM Tivoli Monitoring components on distributed systems.
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Table 2-3 Memory and disk requirements
2.5.3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring database estimation
The primary considerations when sizing the database are the amount and the
type of data that will be collected and the type of historical data that will be
retained. Each agent user’s guide provides capacity planning information to help
Component Memory requirements
a
a. The memory and disk sizings shown in this table are the amounts required for the individual
component beyond the needs of the operating system and any concurrently running applications.
Disk storage
requirements
b
b. The disk storage estimates apply to any size monitoring environment and are considered high
estimates. The size of log files affects the amount of storage that is required.
Small
environment
c
c. A small environment is considered to be a monitoring environment with 500 to 1000 agents, with
100 to 200 monitored agents per remote monitoring server.
Large
environment
d
d. A large environment is considered to be a monitoring environment with 3000 or more monitored
agents, with 500 to 1000 monitored agents per remote monitoring server.
Hub Monitoring Server 70 MB 100 MB 650 MB
e
e. The storage requirements for the hub and remote monitoring servers do not include storage for the
agent depot, which can require an additional 1 GB or more.
Remote Monitoring Server 100 MB 300 MB 250 MB
e
Portal Server 100 MB
f
f. The memory requirement for the portal server does not include database processes for the portal
server database, which require up to 400 MB of additional memory, depending on configuration
settings.
300 MB
f
800 MB
Portal Client (Browser or Desktop) 150 MB 300 MB 150 MB
Tivoli Data Warehouse 2-4 GB depending
on database
configuration
paramenters
2-8 GB depending
on database
configuration
paramenters
Follow the IBM Tivoli
Monitoring Version
6.2.0 Installation and
Setup Guide,
GC32-9407 to
estimate the
database size.
g
g. One of the factors to consider when planning the size of the database that you need is the amount
and type of information that you will collect for agent history data collection. Refer to the “Planning
Considerations for the Tivoli Data Warehouse” chapter in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2.0
Installation and Setup Guide, GC32-9407, to estimate database size.
Warehouse Proxy agent 50 MB 100 MB 150 MB
Summarization and Pruning agent 100 MB 300 MB 150 MB
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a system administrator calculate the amount of disk space that is required of the
data for each attribute group. This information can then be used to complete the
following calculations that will determine how large the database needs to be:
Determine the number of detailed records per day for each attribute group
Determine the storage footprint for each attribute group
Determine the amount of detailed data for the attribute group
Calculate the amount of aggregate data for the attribute groups
The system administrator might prefer to use the planning speadsheet available
in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring information center that is shown in Figure 2-1.
Alternatively, you might prefer to use the Warehouse Load Projection tool that is
available at the IBM Tivoli Open Process Automation Library at the following
URL:
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/opal
This tool does all the calculations for you and includes data for the monitoring
agents.
Figure 2-1 Tivoli data warehouse database size estimation worksheet
Note: IBM Tivoli Monitoring is capable of recording large amounts of data if
the recording interval is short, and if the scope of the recording is large.
Validate your estimates with testing when your installation is complete.
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2.5.4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring server protocols and values
You must consider which of the four possible communications protocols to use for
your environment. The differences are distinguished in Table 2-4.
Table 2-4 Tivoli Monitoring server protocols
2.5.5 IBM Tivoli Monitoring additional considerations
There are no additional software requirements beyond the elements packaged
as part to the AIX Enterprise Edition offering, such as Java™ and the Xlc runtime
environment that is also required to support the DB2 instance required by IBM
Tivoli Monitoring.
A video card supporting 64 000 colors and 1024 x 768 resolution is required for
the portal client.
2.6 Planning and sizing TADDM
In this section, we explain several terms related to TADDM and show an
architecture of TADDM. In addition, we provide the planning and sizing
considerations for hardware.
Protocol Value Definition
IP.UDP IP.UDP port number.
Default is 1918.
The port number for the monitoring
server. The default
is 1918.
SNA Net name The SNA network identifier for your
location.
Logical unit (LU) name The LU name for the monitoring server.
This LU name corresponds to the Local
LU Alias in your SNA communications
software.
Log mode The name of the LU6.2 LOGMODE. The
default value is CANCTDCS.
IP.PIPE IP.PIPE port number.
Default is 1918.
The port number for the monitoring
server. The default is 1918.
IP.SPIPE IP.SPIPE port number.
Default is 3660.
The port number for the monitoring
server. The default is 3660.
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2.6.1 TADDM terminology and architecture
In TADDM, a domain is a logical subset of a company’s infrastructure. It can be
based on any convenient boundary criteria, such as geographical or
departmental. Domains can delineate organizational (for example, IT operations
or line of business (LOB) operations), functional (for example, finance IT domain
or human resources IT domain), or geographical (for example, United States IT
domain or Brazil IT domain) boundaries. There is typically one TADDM Server
deployed per domain to discover domain applications and their supporting
infrastructure, configurations, and dependencies.
The TADDM Server is also referred to as the
Domain Manager. You might want
to use one or multiple TADDM Servers (Domain Managers), depending on how
many configuration items (CIs) exist in your environment. If you have a large
environment with thousands of hardware, software, and other configuration
items, one Domain Manager might not be enough, and you can expand to
multiple Domain Managers.
You can have a view of all of the aggregated data at an
Enterprise Configuration
Management Database (eCMDB) Domain Manager
. In an eCMDB environment,
the participating Domain Managers perform the discoveries and supply data to
the enterprise Domain Manager. The enterprise Domain Manager aggregates
information from the Domain Servers. This behavior is configurable depending
on the needs of an organization. Figure 2-2 on page 20 shows the relationship
between Enterprise Domain Manager and Domain Manager.
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Figure 2-2 Multiple Domain Servers
Discovery sensors reside on the TADDM server and collect configuration
attributes and dependencies. TADDM offers a wide variety of discovery sensors
to enable immediate discovery of virtually all components that are found in the
typical data center, across the application software, host, and network tiers.
Entities discovered by TADDM
TADDM discovers configurations and interdependencies across the following
environment entities:
Application components, such as Web servers, application servers, and
databases
System components, such as hosts, operating systems, load balancers, and
database servers
Network components, such as routers, switches, and firewalls
Services, such as Domain Name System (DNS) and Lightweight Directory
Access Protocol (LDAP) services
Table 2-5 on page 21 shows entities discovered by TADDM in detail.
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Table 2-5 Entities discovered by TADDM
Entity Description
Network tier TADDM discovers the following devices at the network
tier, along with the MIB2 (RFC 1213) parameter values
for each device:
Routers
Switches
Load balancers
Firewalls
Generic IP devices
System tier TADDM discovers the following devices at the system
tier:
Server hosts and disks
Host IP interfaces
Database servers
Load balancers or clusters
Application tier TADDM discovers the following components at the
application tier, along with version, configuration files and
properties, host information, and vendor-specific
extensions for each component (except the generic
processes):
Custom servers, based on custom templates that
you design
Java 2 Platform, Enterprise Edition (J2EE™)
application servers and configurations
J2EE and Java 2 Platform, Standard Edition
(J2SE™) components and modules
Web server components
Web modules, configuration files, and installation
directories
Generic Java virtual machine (JVM™) processes
Databases
Infrastructure service
components
The system infrastructure services that support the
application environment are discovered along with the
dependency structure between these service
components and the application components. The
infrastructure service components are:
DNS and Network File System (NFS) services
LDAP
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Additional Required Software for TADDM
In order to install TADDM and to discover components at a later time, the
following additional software is required:
Database server is required for TADDM. You can use any existing databases
or newly install the DB2 bundled in the IBM Management Edition (ME) for
AIX.
On a TADDM server:
– Firefox if you plan to use Launchpad for installing ME for AIX
–unzip
–sudo
– ssh
– lsof
– X filesets
On target servers:
– ssh
– lsof
2.6.2 TADDM hardware sizing
This section describes the general sizing rules of TADDM and database.
TADDM server
The TADDM server must have the following attributes:
100 GB of available disk space
2 - 4 CPUs with a minimum process speed of 2 GHz
4 - 8 GB of memory
4 - 8 GB of swap space
Relationship structure In addition to the discovery of components, the physical
and logical connectivity at the network, system, and
application tiers is discovered at the following level of
support in each of the tiers:
Layer 3 IP connectivity
Layer 2 connectivity
Application component runtime dependencies
Infrastructure service dependencies
Note: You can install the ssh filesets from the Expansion Pack, while the
unzip, sudo, and lsof files are in AIX Toolbox for Linux.
Entity Description
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It is difficult to provide a standard number of CIs in a server. The actual number
of CIs in a server varies depending on the complexity of the infrastructure; for
example, a complex database server with a large number of instances,
databases, and table spaces has a larger number of CIs per server, and the
number of CIs affects the overall performance. For further information about
sizing TADDM, refer to the following publication: Deployment Guide Series: IBM
Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1, SG24-7616.
TADDM database sizing considerations
To calculate a database size, use this general rule: 2 MB per target host. For
example, the following numbers of hosts work out to the following database
sizes:
5000 hosts 10 GB
10 000 hosts 20 GB
An actual large-scale implementation had the following numbers. Having been
running weekly discoveries of about 2500 hosts and network devices for 14
months uses about 7 GB of space. The reason that the planning information
cannot be better qualified is that the determining factor, besides the number of
hosts and devices, is the number of components that are discovered in the
environment and the rate of change. Both of these factors can vary tremendously
from one environment to another environment. In addition, the size of an
individual component varies as well, for example, how many EJBs are deployed
in a WebSphere® Application Server, or how many tables exist in a database?
Using Custom Server Templates and Computer System Templates to collect and
track files can also greatly influence the capacity requirements of the CMDB.
2.7 Planning and sizing IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager
IT departments are faced with unparalleled pressures to operate as businesses
and align IT costs with company priorities, which is difficult to accomplish,
especially when those resources are shared in your infastructure. With Tivoli
Note: The size of a server that is shown in this section handle up to hundreds
or thousands of target servers, depending on how many CIs each target
server has. However, if you do not have many target servers, a small amount
of CPU and memory might be suitable in your environment. For example, we
have the TADDM server and database installed on the same server with
1 CPU (4.2 Ghz) and 6 GB of memory in our test environment.
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Usage and Accounting Manager, Virtualization Edition (VE), you can help solve
this problem by collecting, tracking, and reporting this usage. Understanding the
overall usage of the system gives you a better picture to more effectively utilize
CPU and memory resources in a shared environment, which can help manage
costs.
2.7.1 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager architecture
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager is comprised of several major
components: the administration application, the reporting component, and the
processing component. All of these components connect to a data source to
store and retrieve information. There are several possible configurations that you
can use. You need to evaluate your requirements and resource availability to
determine the best configuration for your environment.
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager components
This section covers the components for Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager:
Administration server
The administration server is based on the Integrated Solutions Console (ISC).
ISC is an administration tool that runs inside an embedded WebSphere
Application Server. The administration server component for Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager, Virtualization Edition, is installed on the AIX V6.1 TUAM
server box that will run DB2.
Processing server
The data processing server is typically run on the same machine as the
administration server. However, there might be a requirement, such as load
balancing, that precludes running the data processing server on the same
machine as the administration server. The Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager processing engine applies business rules to the data and stores
information in a database. The component will also run on AIX V6.1
Enterprise Edition.
Reporting server
For Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, Virtualization Edition, the
reporting is supported via Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT).
BIRT is a tool that runs in the Eclipse environment and can be installed on
Windows, Linux, or AIX. BIRT needs to be downloaded from the
Note: IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, Virtualization Edition (VE)
as part of AIX Enterprise Edition or Management Edition for AIX is fully
supported.
Chapter 2. Planning and sizing 25
http://www.eclipse.org Web site and installed separately from IBM Tivoli
Usage and Accounting Manager.
Database server
The data server stores the information that is produced by the processing
engine. It does not have to run on the same system or platform as the
processing engine. DB2 V9.1 is supported for Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager and is included with the installation CDs. You can select to install
DB2 at the time that you select to install IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager.
Figure 2-3 shows the Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization
Edition layout. In the next sections, we describe the components of IBM Tivoli
Usage and Accounting Manager and the database to help you plan for the
installation in your environment.
Figure 2-3 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager architecture
2.7.2 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager requirements
Table 2-6 on page 26 provides a list of the minimum IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager software requirements.
Collection
Application
Server
Processing
Reporting Server
TUAMDB
JDBC
Embedded WebSphere
Application Server
Integrated
Solution Console
Process
engine
Administration
Reporting
Reporting with BIRT
File
Data
collector
File
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Table 2-6 Minimum software requirements for IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager
Table 2-7 provides a list of the core software installation files.
Table 2-7 Core requisite file
2.7.3 Estimating IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager database
size
In this section, we discuss estimating the Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
database growth. Because it is a data and collection processing tool, it collects
Operating system AIX 5.3 or AIX 6.1
Browser Firefox 2
Hard disk drive space 5 GB minimum, 40 GB recommended (available hard
disk drive space)
Note: This size varies by environment.
Processor speed 3 GHz minimum
Memory 2 GB minimum
Core software If you use DB2 and the server is on another server
than the database, you must install the DB2 client
connection software on the TUAM server.
The Java Database Connectivity (JDBC™) drivers
for DB2. The drivers are installed with DB2 and are
db2jcc.jar and db2jcc_license_cu.jar.
Red Hat® Package Manager (RPM)
Embedded WebSphere Application Server (installed
during IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
installation)
Integrated Solutions Console (ISC) installed during
the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
installation
BIRT Report Engine and Report Designer available
for download from http://www.eclipse.org for
running data usage reports.
Required file Contents
EmbeddedExpress_aix_ppc32.tar Embedded WAS server (eWAS)
ISCA71_4_EWASv61.tar Integrated Solutions Console (ISC)
Chapter 2. Planning and sizing 27
and loads data into the database and keeps it for a certain period of time.
Estimating its growth is critical to ensuring that the space is properly located and
the resulting performance impact can be addressed (such as the time to back up
the data, query response time, response needs, and so on.)
We start by checking our database size in the AIX file system directly after
creation. The data size is roughly 350 MB, including the database catalog and
the database log files.
Data elements
The primary growth in the database comes from the following usage and
accounting data:
Resource utilization The collection of the resource usage metrics from the
AcctCSR file. Collection is provided by an identifier for
each resource (rate code). This collection is optional. You
do not need to collect the resource usage.
Billing summary This data provides a summary for each resource (rate
code) by account code. This data links to the identifier
table for to get the identifier key for each of the entries
here. The data is one-to-one mapping for the BillDetail.txt
file.
Billing detail This data provides individual entries from the AcctCSR
file. It gives the individual occurrences of source usage by
resource name (rate code). This data links to the identifier
table to get the identifier key for each of the entries here.
The data is one-to-one mapping from the Ident.txt file.
Identifier table This data lists the identifiers that are used by each billing
detail entry. The data is one-to-one mapping from the
Ident.txt file.
Important tips to keeping the database size manageable are:
Run the DBpurge program using the Job runner to remove old data. Because
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager data is an accounting financial tool,
you might want to archive the data first.
Sort by the Account_Code field before running the billing, or use a Common
Source Resource (CSR) or Common Source Resource Plus (CSR+) file for
billing input.
Only collect the identifiers and resources in which you are interested. Modify
the sample collection jobs, change the mapping, and remove any unwanted
identifiers and resources fields.
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IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager database growth
factors
The growth factors for the database are:
Number of days The retention of your data before you run the purge step
to remove it.
Number of shifts The number of shifts in a day that needs unique rate
codes.
Collection source Each collection is processed with various jobs. Each
collection will generate a unique set of data.
Number of identifiers Each identifier is put in a separate row in the
CIMSDETAILIDENT table.
Identifier mix This number is the number of unique identifiers in each
collection. You must be able to estimate this number
based on your understanding of the collection process.
Table 2-8 provides a list of how the database rows map to the database table.
Table 2-8 Table estimation and mapping
Name Row
size
Affecting source
CIMSRESOURCE
UTILIZATION
300 Source, Account_Code, Identifier mix,
RateCode, Shift, and number of days
CIMSSUMMARY 300 Source, Account_Code, RateCode, Shift, and
number of days
CIMSDATAIL 350 Source, Account_Code, Identifier mix, Rate
per id, Shift, and number of days
CIMSDETAILIDENT 75 <Ident mix> x <Ident count>
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Chapter 3. Installation and
configuration
In this chapter, we provide information about installing and configuring each
product that is included in AIX Enterprise Editions (EE):
3.1, “Launchpad” on page 30
3.2, “Installing and configuring DB2” on page 34
3.3, “Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2” on page 50
3.4, “Installing and configuring TADDM” on page 97
3.5, “Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager” on
page 117
3.6, “Installing and configuring WPAR manager” on page 150
3
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3.1 Launchpad
Launchpad is a program that helps you to install all the Tivoli products included in
EE for AIX from a centralized GUI. EE for AIX consists of Launchpad, DB2, and
three Tivoli products. The list of media shipped in the EE for AIX package is
provided in Table 3-1.
Table 3-1 The list of media that is included in EE for AIX
Installing Firefox
In order to use the Launchpad, you need to install a Web browser on AIX. We
installed Firefox browser on our system. Example 3-1 on page 31 shows the
steps for installing Firefox on AIX.
We downloaded the Firefox code from the following Web site:
http://www-03.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/browsers/index.html
The prerequisite files are also included in the downloaded filesets. Install those
files first, and then install Firefox.
Product Media format Approximate size
Launchpad V2.2 DVD 476 MB
DB2 ESE V9.1 Fix Pack 4 DVD 326 MB
IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
Fix Pack 1 Tools
DVD 2.66 GB
IBM Tivoli Monitoring
System p agents
CD 312 MB
TADDM V 7.1 DVD 4.17 GB
IUAM VE7.1 CD 555 MB
Chapter 3. Installation and configuration 31
Example 3-1 Installing Firefox on AIX
## Download and unzip Firefox.base.tar.gz
taddm10:/mnt/Firefox ] ls
Firefox gtk2-2.8.3-9.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
Firefox.base.tar.gz libjpeg-6b-6.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
Java5_64.sdk.tar.gz libpng-1.2.8-5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
atk-1.10.3-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm libtiff-3.6.1-4.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
cairo-1.0.2-6.aix5.1.ppc.rpm pango-1.10.0-2.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
expat-1.95.7-4.aix5.1.ppc.rpm xcursor-1.0.2-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
fontconfig-2.2.2-5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm xft-2.1.6-5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
freetype2-2.1.7-5.aix5.1.ppc.rpm xrender-0.8.4-7.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
gettext-0.10.40-6.aix5.1.ppc.rpm zlib-1.2.3-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
glib2-2.8.1-3.aix5.1.ppc.rpm
taddm10:/mnt/Firefox ] rpm -ivh *.rpm
error: failed dependencies:
libX11.a(shr4.o) is needed by cairo-1.0.2-6
libX11.a(shr4.o) is needed by gtk2-2.8.3-9
libXext.a(shr.o) is needed by gtk2-2.8.3-9
libX11.a(shr4.o) is needed by pango-1.10.0-2
libX11.a(shr4.o) is needed by xcursor-1.0.2-3
libX11.a(shr4.o) is needed by xft-2.1.6-5
libX11.a(shr4.o) is needed by xrender-0.8.4-7
taddm10:/mnt/Firefox ] ls -l /usr/sbin/updtvpkg
-rwxr-x--- 1 root system 3880 Mar 2 17:11 /usr/sbin/updtvpkg
taddm10:/mnt/Firefox ] /usr/sbin/updtvpkg
Please wait...
taddm10:/mnt/Firefox ] rpm -ivh *.rpm
Note: When installing the Red Hat Package Manager (RPM) prerequisites for
Firefox, if you get an error message about missing X11 libraries
(libX11.a(shr.o) and so forth) that are already installed on your system, you
need to run the following command:
# /usr/sbin/updtvpkg
On AIX, the RPM package database creates a virtual package named
AIX-rpm, which represents a snapshot of all of the installp files installed on
the system. However, this virtual package can become out-of-date if you
install additional installp software on the system after you have installed the
rpm.rte fileset. The /usr/sbin/updtvpkg command will update the virtual
package AIX-rpm to match the current state of the system.
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taddm10:/mnt/Firefox/Firefox ] ls
.toc README.install
Firefox.base download-prerequisites.sh
taddm10:/mnt/Firefox ] smitty installp
Install Software
Type or select values in entry fields.
Press Enter AFTER making all desired changes.
[TOP] [Entry Fields]
* INPUT device / directory for software .
* SOFTWARE to install [Firefox.base > +
PREVIEW only? (install operation will NOT occur) no +
COMMIT software updates? yes +
SAVE replaced files? no +
AUTOMATICALLY install requisite software? yes +
EXTEND file systems if space needed? yes +
OVERWRITE same or newer versions? no +
VERIFY install and check file sizes? no +
Include corresponding LANGUAGE filesets? yes +
DETAILED output? no +
Process multiple volumes? yes +
ACCEPT new license agreements? yes +
[MORE...8]
F1=Help F2=Refresh F3=Cancel F4=List
F5=Reset F6=Command F7=Edit F8=Image
F9=Shell F10=Exit Enter=Do
If you have successfully completed the installation of the Web browser, put the
Launchpad media into the media drive and run launchpad.sh. Remember that
you need to have a graphical user environment to invoke the Launchpad with the
Web browser.
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Running the launchpad.sh file prompts you to accept the license agreement as
shown in Figure 3-1. Read the license agreement for ME for AIX (the same panel
will be displayed for the EE installation), and click Accept.
Figure 3-1 License agreement for ME for AIX
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Figure 3-2 shows the main page of the Launchpad where you can install all the
products in ME for AIX. Browse each menu in the left pane for future installation.
Figure 3-2 The main page of the Launchpad
3.2 Installing and configuring DB2
For our implementation, we chose to use DB2 for the database. In this section,
we describe how to install DB2 using the Launchpad. Before installing DB2, we
created separate file systems for the DB2 source code and the database
instance home on a non-root volume group as shown in Example 3-2 on
page 35:
/opt/IBM/db2 Approximately 600 MB contains the DB2 source code
installed on your system. This file system is static and
does not grow after the initial installation.
Chapter 3. Installation and configuration 35
/home/db2inst1 This name is the default name for the database instance
home. It varies in size depending on the database
configuration, and it grows over time as data is added to
the database.
Example 3-2 shows the installation and configuration of DB2 for the TADDM
server that is used in this publication. You can select other naming conventions
that are appropriate for your environment.
Example 3-2 File systems created for DB2
taddm10:/ ] lspv
hdisk0 00c1f170aa7f638b rootvg active
hdisk1 00c1f170b4c335e3 appvg active
taddm10:/ ] lsvg -l appvg
appvg:
LV NAME TYPE LPs PPs PVs LV STATE MOUNT POINT
loglv00 jfs2log 1 1 1 closed/syncd N/A
fslv00 jfs2 128 128 1 closed/syncd
/home/db2inst1
fslv02 jfs2 128 128 1 closed/syncd /opt/IBM/db2
taddm10:/ ] mount /home/db2inst1
taddm10:/ ] mount /opt/IBM/db2
Install DB2 Enterprise Server
To simplify the installation process, we decided to use the Launchpad that is part
of ME for AIX to install DB2. Launchpad is software that helps you install all the
products in ME for AIX through the Web GUI interface.
We obtained the Launchpad and DB2 media and copied the install images into
our Network File System (NFS) server. From the NFS server, we then exported
the file systems and then mounted those file systems containing the install
images on our AIX host, taddm10. We used the following directories for the NFS
mount points:
/mnt/launchpad For the Launchpad media
/mnt/db2 For the DB2 media
To install DB2 Enterprise Server:
1. Log on to the taddm10 server as root and change the directory to where the
Launchpad is located, which is /mnt/launchpad.
2. Run the launchpad.sh command to display the Management Edition (ME) for
AIX Launchpad panel, which is shown in Figure 3-3 on page 36.
3. Read the license agreement for ME for AIX and click Accept.
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Figure 3-3 License agreement for ME for AIX
The next window (Figure 3-4 on page 37) shows the main page of Launchpad
where you can install all the products in ME for AIX.
4. Select Install DB2 from the left pane.
There are two options that you can choose: you can either install DB2 with the
fix pack or you can just apply the fix pack on an existing instance.
Chapter 3. Installation and configuration 37
5. Select Install IBM DB2 Database Enterprise Server Edition, Version 9.1
with Fix Pack 04 incorporated as shown in Figure 3-4.
Figure 3-4 Installing DB2 through Launchpad
6. In the next window, provide the installation setup directory path where the
DB2 installation image resides as shown in Figure 3-5. Click OK.
Figure 3-5 Selecting DB2 setup directory
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8. The next window shows the Welcome to the DB2 Setup wizard panel, which
is shown in Figure 3-7.
The DB2 Setup wizard leads you through the installation process. Notice the
list of 14 installation steps on the left side of the wizard panel. As the setup
wizard leads you through the installation of DB2, this list reminds you where
you are in the installation process.
9. Click Next.
Figure 3-7 Welcome to the DB2 Setup wizard
The next window is the Software License Agreement panel. Read through the
licensing agreement.
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In the next window, you have an option to choose whether to create a
response file with the same configuration for future installation, which is
shown in Figure 3-10.
12.Select Install DB2 Enterprise Server Edition on this computer and click
Next.
Figure 3-10 Selecting install, response file creation, or both panel
In the next window, you select the installation directory. Provide a directory
where you want to put the DB2 files.
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14.On the next window, enter the information for the DB2 Administration Server
(DAS) user information.
We accepted the default values and entered a password for the user, which is
shown in Figure 3-12.
15.Click Next.
Figure 3-12 Set user information for the DB2 Administration Server
The next window lets you create a DB2 instance. In DB2, an instance is an
independent environment where database objects can be created and
applications can be run against them.
Chapter 3. Installation and configuration 45
16.We will create the DB2 instance later; therefore, select Do not create a DB2
instance as shown in Figure 3-13.
17.Click Next.
Figure 3-13 Set up a DB2 instance
In the next window, you can set up notifications.
Important: If you operate in an environment that requires a consistent user
ID/group ID (UID/GID) for applications, database users, and groups, you need
to manually assign and manage these UIDs/GIDs to ensure consistency
between hosts in your environment. Installing via the GUI, by default, will
allocate the next available ID, which might not be the most appropriate in all
environments. In addition, in case you set up an expiration policy for a
password, set up database users so that they cannot be expired.
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The next window (shown in Figure 3-17) is displayed when all of the files have
been copied and DB2 Enterprise Server is successfully installed.
Figure 3-17 Setup has completed successfully
Create DB2 database users
Now that we have installed DB2 Enterprise Server, we need to create the
database instance. We created two user accounts before we create the
database instance. These accounts, which are also known as the DB2 user and
the DB2 archuser, are the primary and secondary users for the database
instance, as shown in Table 3-2.
Table 3-2 DB2 database users
Example 3-3 on page 49 shows the AIX commands that create the required
users.
TADDM
environment
(host name)
Primary/
DB2 user
Secondary/
DB2 Archuser
DB2 instance
name
taddm10 db2inst1 archuser cmdb
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Example 3-3 Creating users for db2 instance
taddm10:/mnt/TADDM71 ] mkgroup db2grp1
taddm10:/mnt/TADDM71 ] mkuser pgrp=db2grp1 db2inst1
taddm10:/mnt/TADDM71 ] mkuser pgrp=db2grp1 archuser
taddm10:/mnt/TADDM71 ] passwd db2inst1
Changing password for "db2inst1"
db2inst1's New password:
Re-enter db2inst1's new password:
taddm10:/mnt/TADDM71 ] passwd archuser
Changing password for "archuser"
archuser's New password:
Re-enter archuser's new password:
taddm10:/mnt/TADDM71 ] login db2inst1
db2inst1's Password:
[compat]: You are required to change your password. Please choose a new one.
db2inst1's New password:
Re-enter db2inst1's new password:
$ login archuser
archuser's Password:
[compat]: You are required to change your password. Please choose a new one.
archuser's New password:
Re-enter archuser's new password:$
Create the DB2 instances
Next, you need to create the DB2 instance. We changed the directory and
created the instance as shown in Example 3-4.
Example 3-4 Creating DB2 instance
taddm10:/ ] chown db2inst1.db2grp1 /home/db2inst1
taddm10:/ ] ls -ld /home/db2inst1
drwxr-xr-x 3 db2inst1 db2grp1 256 Mar 3 14:38 /home/db2inst1
taddm10:/opt/IBM/db2/V9.1/instance ]db2icrt -a SERVER -p 50010 -s ese -u
db2inst1 db2inst1 <
DBI1070I Program db2icrt completed successfully.
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3.3 Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
In order to step through the installation of IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2, we build a
lab environment, as shown in Figure 3-18. Here, we can see the topology using
one of product features of the Tivoli Enterprise Portal: the self-monitoring
topology.
Figure 3-18 Lab environment self-monitoring topology
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3.3.1 Pre-installation preparation
Before you begin, take note of the following information concerning the
installation procedures in this section.
The installation procedures provide information for installing a single component
(such as the monitoring server) on one computer. If you want to install multiple
components (such as the monitoring server and the portal server) on the same
computer and you want to install them simultaneously using the command line,
the actual steps might vary. Refer to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2.0
Installation and Setup Guide, GC32-9407, for further information.
You need to consider several basic principles and guidelines when determining
the procedure and setup that will best suit your environment.
For example, you can install a monitoring server on one host, a portal server on
another host, and access the portal using a Windows desktop client.
If your site uses the IP.PIPE protocol for communications, be aware of the
following considerations:
There can be at most 16 IP.PIPE processes per host.
IP.PIPE uses one, and only one, physical port per process. Port numbers are
allocated using a well-known port allocation algorithm. The first process for a
host is assigned port 1918, which is the default.
KDC_PORTS is not supported for IP.PIPE.
If you need to have more than 16 processes per host, use IP.UDP (User
Datagram Protocol) for connections between IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2
components.
Determine whether your environment requires a remote Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server hub or data warehouse.
We also need to plan for settings that will vary from one environment to another
environment, such as:
Host names
UIDs and GIDs for the administration of IBM Tivoli Monitoring
File systems and sizing
Port numbers (unless the default port numbers will be used)
Whether the monitoring server being installed or being connected to is
configured as a hub or as a remote monitoring server
Whether you want to configure a hot standby
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3.3.2 Installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring from the Launchpad
The AIX Enterprise Edition Launchpad runs on IBM AIX 6.1 at a minimum
technology level 1. The Launchpad runs in a Web browser window. Supported
browsers are Mozilla Firefox for AIX, Versions 1.5.0.10, 1.5.0.11, and 1.5.0.12.
Refer to the following Web site for a download of the last named version and
information about its prerequisites:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/os/aix/browsers/index.html
Unless you are installing IBM Tivoli Monitoring by using the Launchpad on the
console, you will also require the presence of a running X Windows emulator,
because certain parts of the install spawn a shell for certain responses that
determine the configuration. In our environment, we used Hummingbird Exceed
2008.
The prerequisites of the products that the Launchpad installs differ from the
prerequisites for the browser. For details, consult the Product Information page in
the Launchpad, which provides the documentation of the supported versions of
those products and links to further reference material located in the IBM Tivoli
Information Center.
To install IBM Tivoli Monitoring, from the LaunchPad initial window that is seen in
Figure 3-19 on page 53, select Install Monitoring from the sidebar.
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Figure 3-19 Launchpad Initial window
3.3.3 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
Figure 3-20 on page 54 shows the Launchpad initial options for installing the IBM
Tivoli Monitoring components, as well as an overview of their functions and the
sequence in which you must install the individual components. It also has links to
more detailed information about using the Launchpad and the IBM Tivoli
Monitoring product in the Tivoli Information Center.
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Figure 3-20 Installing Tivoli Monitoring options from the Launchpad
To start the installation:
1. Accept the license agreement if prompted.
After you accept the licensing agreement, you will be presented with the main
Install Monitoring window. From here, the steps that are required to perform a
silent installation are laid out logically in the left sidebar. Alternately, you can
choose the option “Install IBM Tivoli Monitoring interactively.” This option
launches a Korn shell (ksh) that prompts you for the required configuration
parameters for the installation. This option is essentially identical to installing
the product from the command line.
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Figure 3-21 shows the options for installing and configuring the Tivoli
Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) from the Launchpad. From this window,
you can either select the components that you want to install or configure
from the list in the left sidebar.
The following sections guide you through each of these tasks.
Figure 3-21 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
Note: We recommend the Silent Mode installation if you are inexperienced
with the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product. This method prompts for the
information that the wizard requires to complete an install of the selected
component.
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Step 1: Install Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS)
Clicking “Install Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server” in the sidebar launches the
window that is seen in Figure 3-22. Here, you are prompted for the information
that the wizard requires to proceed with installing the TEMS and the sequence to
follow to install the TEMS, to configure the TEMS, and to enable application
support for the monitoring agents. Finally, you will be asked to start the TEMS.
The required fields are marked with a red asterisk (*):
The install directory (the default is /opt/IBM/ITM) is a required field.
The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server name is a required field.
Optionally, you can enter a 32-character encryption key or accept the default.
Figure 3-22 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
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After the install process has initiated, the install log is logged to the display
window within the Launchpad while the component is installed. The install
process will also identify any of the particular install logs that you need to inspect
or review after the component is installed. You can view the entire log by utilizing
the scroll bar as shown in Figure 3-23.
Figure 3-23 Installation progress information
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Step 2: Configuring the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
Enter the required fields and select Configure Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server as shown in Figure 3-25. This selection initiates the configuration and
prompts you for further information and settings that are required to complete the
configuration the TEMS hub.
Figure 3-25 Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server Installation completion
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Next, you enter additional install parameters that are required to finalize the
configuration of the TEMS hub as shown in Figure 3-26.
Figure 3-26 Additional configuration options
Configuration options
The configuration options provided in the Korn shell (ksh) that is spawned by the
Launchpad are identical to the configuration options that are displayed if the
install is initiated from the command-line interface (CLI) using the install.sh script
from the directory that contains the IBM Tivoli Monitoring install images (provided
in Example 3-5 on page 61):
1. When prompted for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 home directory, press
Enter to accept the default (/opt/IBM/ITM).
2. If you want to use another installation directory, type the full path to that
directory and press Enter.
3. The output shown in Example 3-5 on page 61 is displayed. Type 1 to start the
installation and press Enter. The user license agreement is displayed. Press
Enter to read through the agreement.
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Example 3-5 Tivoli Enterprise Manager Installation Output
Select one of the following:
1) Install products to the local host.
2) Install products to depot for remote deployment (requires TEMS).
3) Install TEMS support for remote seeding
4) Exit install.
Please enter a valid number: 1
Initializing ...
install.sh warning: unarchive of "/appo/itm62/unix/jraix526.tar" may
have failed, continuing ...
International Program License Agreement
Part 1 - General Terms
BY DOWNLOADING, INSTALLING, COPYING, ACCESSING, OR USING
THE PROGRAM YOU AGREE TO THE TERMS OF THIS AGREEMENT. IF
YOU ARE ACCEPTING THESE TERMS ON BEHALF OF ANOTHER PERSON
OR A COMPANY OR OTHER LEGAL ENTITY, YOU REPRESENT AND
WARRANT THAT YOU HAVE FULL AUTHORITY TO BIND THAT PERSON,
COMPANY, OR LEGAL ENTITY TO THESE TERMS. IF YOU DO NOT
AGREE TO THESE TERMS,
- DO NOT DOWNLOAD, INSTALL, COPY, ACCESS, OR USE THE
PROGRAM; AND
Press Enter to continue viewing the license agreement, or
enter "1" to accept the agreement, "2" to decline it, "3"
to print it, "4" to read non-IBM terms, or "99" to go back
to the previous screen.
4. Type 1 and press Enter to accept the agreement.
5. Press Enter to accept the default encryption key, or type a 32-character
encryption key and press Enter.
Note: Follow these tips to select an encryption key:
Do not use the equal sign (=), the comma (,), or the l character in the
encryption key.
Ensure that if you select not to use the default encryption key that you
record the key value. This same key will be required during the
installation of components that communicate with this monitoring
server.
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6. Type the number for the operating system on which you install the monitoring
server. The default value is your current operating system.
Press Enter.
7. Type 1 to confirm the operating system and press Enter.
A numbered list of available components is displayed.
8. Select the number which corresponds to the option for the Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server and press Enter.
9. Type 1 to confirm the selection and press Enter.
At this point, the installation begins as shown in Example 3-6.
Example 3-6 Installation of the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
Product packages are available in /opt/IBM/ITM
Product packages are available for the following operating systems
and component support categories:
1) AIX R5.2 (32 bit)
2) AIX R5.2 (64 bit)
3) AIX R5.3 (32 bit)
4) AIX R5.3 (64 bit)
5) Tivoli Enterprise Portal Browser Client support
6) Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server support
7) Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server support
Type the number for the OS or component support category you want,
or type "q" to quit selection
[ number "4" or "AIX R5.3 (64 bit)" is default ]:
You selected number "4" or "AIX R5.3 (64 bit)"
Is the operating system or component support correct [ 1=Yes, 2=No ;
default is "1" ] ? y
The following products are available for installation:
1) Monitoring Agent for UNIX Logs V06.20.00.00
2) Monitoring Agent for UNIX OS V06.20.00.00
3) Summarization and Pruning Agent V06.20.00.00
Note: If you are installing on AIX Version 6.1 and if you only see AIX 5.3 in
the selection list, select AIX 5.3. After the closest level to your level is
selected, the component will install and operate normally.
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4) Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server V06.20.00.00
5) Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server V06.20.00.00
6) Tivoli Enterprise Services User Interface V06.20.00.00
7) Universal Agent V06.20.00.00
8) Warehouse Proxy V06.20.00.00
9) all of the above
Type the numbers for the products you want to install, or type "q"
to quit selection.
If you enter more than one number, separate the numbers by a comma
or a space.
Type your selections here: 4
The following products will be installed:
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server V06.20.00.00
Are your selections correct [ 1=Yes, 2=No ; default is "1" ] 1
... installing "Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server V06.20.00.00
for AIX R5.3 (64 bit)"; please wait.
=> installed "Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server V06.20.00.00 for
AIX R5.3 (64 bit)".
... Initializing component Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
V06.20.00.00 for AIX R5.3 (64 bit).
10.At the prompt, enter a host name for your Monitoring Server and press Enter
as shown in Example 3-7.
Example 3-7 Installation completion
Please enter TEMS name [ TEMS is default ]: nimserver
... creating config file
"/opt/IBM/ITM/config/server2_ms_HUB_TEMS.config"
... creating file "/opt/IBM/ITM/tables/HUB_TEMS/glb_site.txt."
... updating "/opt/IBM/ITM/config/kbbenv"
... verifying Hot Standby.
... Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server V06.20.00.00 for AIX R5.3
(64 bit) initialized.
Note: Do not use the fully qualified domain name as the host name for your
monitoring server.
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Do you want to install additional products or product support
packages [ 1=Yes, 2=No ; default is "2" ]
... postprocessing; please wait.
... finished postprocessing.
Installation step complete.
As a reminder, you should install product support on each of your
TEM servers for any agents you have just installed.
This is done via the "/opt/IBM/ITM/bin/itmcmd support" command on
your TEM servers.
You may now configure any locally installed IBM Tivoli Monitoring
product via the "/opt/IBM/ITM/bin/itmcmd config" command.
The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server is now installed and configured.
You can confirm that the server is installed and functional by using the cinfo
command as shown in Example 3-8.
Example 3-8 The cinfo command displaying running processes
root@nimserver:/# /opt/IBM/ITM/bin/cinfo -r
*********** Fri Mar 6 11:57:26 CST 2009 ******************
User: root Groups: system bin sys security cron audit lp
Host name : nimserver Installer Lvl:06.20.01.00
CandleHome: /opt/IBM/ITM
***********************************************************
Host Prod PID Owner Start ID ..Status
nimserver ms 483604 root 18:06:01 nimserver ...running
After you have successfully installed and configured the Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server hub, you can then proceed with Step 3 where you install the
application support on the TEMS hub for both the base agents and the System p
agents as shown in Figure 3-27 on page 65.
Step 3: Enabling application support for agents
When we installed the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 components, the application
support was installed for the base agents. The agents that come with the
installation for the System p are located on separate media.
After they are installed, you need to enable the application support for these
agents to function correctly. In addition, you need to configure and start the
agents on the Virtual I/O Server.
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Figure 3-27 Installing the application support for the agents
Step 4: Starting the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
When the TEMS hub is installed and configured and you have installed the
application support for the agents, you can now start the TEMS either by clicking
the option at Step 4 of the Install Panel, or alternatively, you can the start the
TEMS from the command line using the itmcmd command.
Example 3-9 on page 66 shows starting and confirming the TEMS from the
command line. After the TEMS has been started, you can then confirm that the
server process is running by using the cinfo command.
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Example 3-9 Starting the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server from the command line
root@nimserver:/# /opt/IBM/ITM/bin/itmcmd server start nimserver >
/tmp/meaix/startstop_server.log 2>&1
root@nimserver:/# cat /tmp/meaix/startstop_server.log
Starting TEMS...
It can take up to ten minutes.
KCIIN0082E TEMS started...
3.3.4 Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
The second phase of the process is to install and configure the IBM Tivoli
Enterprise Portal Server.
Start by selecting Install Tivoli Enterprise Server from the Launchpad sidebar.
You will see the installation window and the steps, as well as an explanation of
the process and the required information and details to launch the installation
wizard and configure the required components.
This page assists you to:
Install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
Install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server support for monitoring agents
Install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server Browser Client support for
monitoring agents
Configure the server
Step 1: Installing the Tivoli Enterprise Server Portal
Use the following steps to install the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server:
1. Click Install Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server.
2. Then, enter the required information in the wizard for the installation directory
and the encryption key, or you can use the default encryption key.
3. Click Install Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
in the main window as shown in
Figure 3-28 on page 67.
Note: Before proceeding with installing the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you need
to stop the TEMS hub either by using Step 4 on the Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring window or by using the command line and the itmcmd command.
Note: The IBM Eclipse Help Server is automatically installed when you install
the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
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Figure 3-28 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installation window
Prior to installation, you are required to accept the license agreement. After
you accept the agreement, the wizard prompts you for the installation
directory where the IBM Tivoli Monitoring install images are located, which is
shown in Figure 3-29 on page 68.
4. Enter the full path to the install images or browse to locate them.
5. Select Open.
6. Click OK to proceed.
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Figure 3-29 Installation setup directory
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Next, the wizard installs the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server and displays the
detailed output in the window until the process completes, as shown in
Figure 3-30.
Figure 3-30 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installation progress window
In addition to logging in to the window, you are informed about the success or
failure of the installation and which logs to review.
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Figure 3-31 shows the wizard after the successful installation of the Tivoli
Enterprise Portal Server.
Figure 3-31 Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installation success window
Step 2: Installing TEPS support for monitoring agents
Next, we guide you through installing the application support that is required for
the monitoring agents:
1. After reading and accepting the license agreement, select the installation path
for IBM Tivoli Monitoring.
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2. Click to install both the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server support for monitoring
agents and the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server Browser Client support for
monitoring agents
in that sequence using the Launchpad install wizard
window, as shown in Figure 3-32.
Figure 3-32 Installing the TEPS support for monitoring agents
Note: The Tivoli Enterprise Portal Browser Client support package is portal
server code that supports the browser clients. You must install the browser
client support package on the computer where you install the portal server if
you want to connect to it using a browser client.
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3. Enter the path for the IBM Tivoli Monitoring setup directory in the dialog box
or browse for the location of the setup directory where the install images are,
as shown in Figure 3-33.
4. Select Open and then click OK.
Figure 3-33 Select installation path
Step 3: Configure the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
The wizard will now launch a Korn shell (ksh) as shown in Figure 3-34 on
page 75, which prompts you for further detailed options to configure the
connector settings for the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. After this configuration
completes, the wizard starts the Install Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server step and
connects to the DB2 database instance.
If you are extremely familiar with IBM Tivoli Monitoring and the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal Server, you can configure the connector settings for the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal Server from the command line using the command itmcmd config -A cq.
Chapter 3. Installation and configuration 73
Configuring the Portal Server Connector settings
In the Korn shell (ksh), perform the following steps:
1. Press Enter to accept the default for the following prompt:
Edit ’ITM Connector’ settings? [ 1=Yes, 2=No ] (default is: 1):
2. Press Enter to enable the connector.
3. Press Enter to accept the default name of ITM1 or type your preferred name
and press Enter. This name displays in the Common Event Console for this
connector.
4. Press Enter to accept the default number of events (100) that are to be
available in the Common Event Console for this connector, or type the
number of events that you want to see displayed and press Enter.
5. Type 2 and press Enter to display only active events in the Common Event
Console for this connector. Type 1 and press Enter to view both active and
closed events. By default, only active events are displayed.
6. Type 2 and press Enter to skip defining data for extra columns in the Common
Event Console.
When you define a Tivoli Enterprise Console® or Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus
connector, you can define the information that is to be mapped to each of
these customizable columns. Refer to the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Version 6.2.0
Administrator’s Guide, SC32-9408, for information about configuring these
connectors.
7. Press Enter when you are asked if the agent connects to a Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server.
Configure the connection between the portal server and the hub monitoring
server:
1. Type the host name for the hub monitoring server and press Enter.
2. Type the protocol that the hub monitoring server uses to communicate with
the portal server. You have four choices: IP.UDP, SNA, IP.PIPE, or IP.SPIPE.
Note: This part of the process requires you to enter the DB2 and IBM Tivoli
Monitoring UIDs, passwords, and the 32-character encryption key in order for
the Install Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server to connect to the DB2 instance.
Note: Although the prompt refers to an agent (which the itmcmd command
does also), this command is used to configure the portal server.
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3. If you want to set up a backup protocol, enter that protocol and press Enter. If
If you do not want to use a backup protocol, press Enter without specifying a
protocol.
4. Depending on the type of protocol that you specified, provide information
according to the information shown in Table 2-4 on page 18.
5. Press Enter when you are asked if you want to configure the connection to a
secondary monitoring server. The default value is none.
6. Press Enter to accept the default for the Optional Primary Network Name
(none).
7. Press Enter to accept the default setting for Secure Sockets Layer (SSL)
between the portal server and clients (N).
Configure the connection between the portal server and the portal server
database.
8. Type the DB2 instance name. The default value is db2inst1. Press Enter.
9. Type the DB2 administrator ID. The default is db2inst1. Press Enter.
10.Type the password for the DB2 administrator ID and press Enter.
11.Confirm the password for the DB2 administrator ID by typing it again. Press
Enter.
12.Type the name of the portal server database. The default is TEPS. Press
Enter.
13.Type the login name of the database user that the portal server will use to
access the database. The default is itmuser. Press Enter.
14.Type the password for the database user and press Enter.
15.Confirm the password for the database user by typing it again. Press Enter.
16.You are now asked if it is okay to create the itmuser login ID if it does not
exist. Type 1 and press Enter.
17.You are asked if you are using DB2 or Oracle® for the Tivoli Data
Warehouse. Enter D for DB2 or J for Oracle Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC). DB2 is the default.
Note: By default, SSL is disabled. If you want to enable it, type 1 and press
Enter.
Note: The DB2 Administrator account was created during DB2 installation.
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The configuration now proceeds with the parameters that you have entered. You
will see a message telling you that InstallPresentation.sh is running and then a
message telling you that the installation has completed.
Figure 3-34 Configuring the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Step 4: Starting and stopping the Portal Server
You can start or stop the Tivoli Enterprise Portal by clicking the links in Step 4 or
by entering the following command from the command line:
itmcmd agent <start/stop> <product code>
The itmcmd command can facilitate executing the same command on multiple
agents simultaneously from the CLI as shown in Example 3-10.
Example 3-10 The itmcmd multi agent start
root@nimserver:/# itmcmd agent start px pk ph cq
Multi-agent start: px
Starting Premium Monitoring Agent for AIX ...
Premium Monitoring Agent for AIX started
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Multi-agent start: pk
Starting Base Monitoring Agent for CEC ...
Base Monitoring Agent for CEC started
Multi-agent start: ph
Starting Base Monitoring Agent for HMC ...
Base Monitoring Agent for HMC started
Multi-agent start: cq
Starting Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server ...
Eclipse Help Server is required by Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
(TEPS) and will be started...
Eclipse Help Server is already started.
Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server started
Multi-agent start completed
Table 3-3 on page 77 provides a list of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring product codes
and a description of the respective functions of a particular agent or server. You
can obtain a thorough and comprehensive list on the system in the file
$INSTALLDIR/registry/proddsc.tbl.
Note: If you start the Enterprise Portal Server from the command line, it starts
the IBM Eclipse Help Server first if it is not already running.
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Table 3-3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring product codes
3.3.5 Install and configure the Base agents
In this next phase, we install the Base agents. You must install and configure the
Base agents and System p agents on all of the AIX hosts in the environment that
are to be monitored.
Step 1: Installing the Base agents
To install one or more Base agents on this computer:
1. Select the check box for the corresponding agent or agents to install.
2. Enter the installation path and the encryption key.
IBM Tivoli
Monitoring
product code
Description
ms Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
ax IBM Tivoli Monitoring Shared Libraries
cq Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
p5 Base Monitoring Agent for AIX
px Premium Monitoring Agent for AIX
pv Base Monitoring Agent for Virtual I/O Server
va Premium Monitoring Agent for Virtual I/O Server
ph Base Monitoring Agent for Hardware Management Console
(HMC)
pk Base Monitoring Agent for Common Event Console (CEC)
cg IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Cryptographic Coprocessors
kf IBM Eclipse Help Server
cw Tivoli Enterprise Portal Browser Client
hd Warehouse Proxy
it Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) Graphical User Interface (GUI)
Integration
iw IBM Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server Extensions
cj Tivoli Enterprise Portal Desktop Client
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3. Click Install selected agents as shown in Figure 3-35.
Figure 3-35 Installing the Base agents
4. After reading and accepting the licensing agreement, enter the path to the
install images or browse for the path to the install images and click Open.
5. Then, select OK to proceed.
The install information window will list the agents and their corresponding two
character product code as they are installed as shown in Figure 3-36 on
page 79.
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Figure 3-36 Installing Base agents
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Step 2: Configuring the Base agents
You must now configure each of the Base agents that you have just installed on
this host:
1. To configure an agent, enter the installation path of the agent, and click the
corresponding link as shown in Figure 3-38.
Figure 3-38 Configuration options for the Base agents
Figure 3-39 shows the Korn shell (ksh) agent configuration.
Figure 3-39 Agent configuration shell
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You are required to configure the agent parameters individually, because there
are slight variations on the parameters that are required for separate agents.
Step 3: Starting the Base agents
You can now start the Base agents by selecting the corresponding check box for
the agent and then selecting the link as shown in Figure 3-40.
Figure 3-40 Starting the Base agents
3.3.6 Install and configure System p agents
In this phase, you install the System p agents in the same manner in which you
installed the Base agents. You begin by selecting Install System p agents in the
sidebar of the Launchpad, which will launch the Install window that is shown in
Figure 3-41 on page 83.
You must install both the Base agents and System p agents on all AIX hosts to
be monitored. In the case of a Workload Partition (WPAR), the agents only need
to be installed in the Global Environment. In order to monitor a WPAR setup for
application mobility, the agents need to be installed on all systems that can
potentially host the WPAR, including the Network File System (NFS) Server.
The systems administrator must be sure to not move the logical partition (LPAR)
that has the common event console (CEC) agent installed, because the CEC
agent must be on an LPAR of the system that it is monitoring.
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Figure 3-41 Installation options window for System p agents
Important: Prior to configuring the Hardware Management Console (HMC)
Base agent, edit the $CANDLEHOME/configph_dd.properties file and add the
following lines to the end of the file:
KQZ_PRODDESC=IBM Tivoli Monitoring: HMC Base Agent
KQZ_PRODNAME=IBM Tivoli Monitoring: HMC Base Agent
Failure to add these lines will generate Java exception errors when you try to
configure the HMC Base agent.
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Step 1: Installing the System p agents
Select the corresponding System p agents to install on the system, and click
Install selected agents to launch the install process as shown in Figure 3-42.
During the process, the information window shows the products or agents being
installed and their corresponding product codes that identify the individual
agents.
Figure 3-42 System p agents installation
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Or, click Configure <agent type> to launch a Korn shell (ksh), which prompts
you for the configuration parameters that are required for the customization of
each of the agents as shown in Figure 3-44.
Figure 3-44 Installation parameters for System p agents
Step 3: Starting the agents
You can now select the check box corresponding to the System p agent or
agents that are required to start as shown in the Launchpad window in
Figure 3-45 on page 87.
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Figure 3-45 Starting the System p agents
3.3.7 Installing the Warehouse Proxy agent
To install the Warehouse Proxy agent, enter the required information with the
installation path and encryption key as shown in Figure 3-46 on page 88, and
then click Install the Warehouse Proxy Agent.
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Figure 3-46 Installing the Warehouse Proxy agent
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Review and accept the licensing agreement. Then, enter the path to the install
images. The window will switch to the install information window as shown in
Figure 3-47 until the installation completes.
Figure 3-47 Installation information window
To configure the Warehouse Proxy agent, enter the installation directory in Step
3 of the Install Warehouse Proxy agent, and then click Configure the
Warehouse Proxy Agent.
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The Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services window opens, where you
select Warehouse Proxy and then choose Actions Configure as shown in
Figure 3-48.
Figure 3-48 Configuring the Warehouse Proxy agent
Note: If you do not see the Warehouse Proxy agent in the list of services to
manage, you might not have launched the installation of the agent, the
installation might not have completed successfully, or the agent has been
uninstalled. Determine which situation happened, complete the installation,
and then repeat this operation.
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3.3.8 Installing the Summarization and Pruning agent
To install the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Summarization and Pruning agent, enter the
installation directory and encryption key, and then click Install the
Summarization and Pruning Agent in Step 1 on the LaunchPad window as
shown in Figure 3-49.
Figure 3-49 Installing the Summarization and Pruning agent
Note: Further information regarding the complex deployments of agents,
including remote deployment, is described in detail in Chapter 7, “Deploying
IBM Tivoli Monitoring agents in a large scale environment,” in IBM Tivoli
Monitoring: Implementation and Performance Optimization for Large Scale
Environments, SG24-7443.
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Changing the file permissions
When you install the agents, you install them as the root user, or with privileges
greater than those privileges of an applications user.
Follow this procedure to ensure that the permissions are set appropriately:
1. Log in to the host as root.
2. Create a user, such as itm1, that will own the files and the running agents.
Use this command:
mkuser itm1
3. Create a group to which the itm1 user will belong:
mkgroup itmusers
4. Add the itm1 UID to the itmusers group:
chgroup users=itm1 itmusers
5. List the itmusers group to check that the itm1 UID has been added as shown
in Example 3-11.
Example 3-11 IBM Tivoli Monitoring application Group ID and user ID
root@aix:/opt/IBM/ITM# lsgroup itmusers
itmusers id=201 admin=false users=itm1 registry=files
6. Run the following command to ensure that the CANDLEHOME environment
variable correctly identifies the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 installation
directory:
echo $CANDLEHOME
7. Change to the directory that is returned in the previous step:
cd $CANDLEHOME
8. Confirm that you are in the correct directory:
pwd
9. Run the following commands:
chown -R itm1.itmusers .
chmod -R o-rwx .
10.Run the following command to change the ownership of additional agent files:
./bin/SetPerm
Important: Running the following steps in the wrong directory can change the
permissions on every file in every file system on the host.
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11.The $CANDLEHOME directory now looks Example 3-12.
Example 3-12 User and Group ownership in the $CANDLEHOME directory
root@aix:/opt/IBM/ITM# ll
total 136
drwxr-x--- 29 itm1 itmusers 4096 Mar 15 10:09 .
drwxr-xr-x 5 bin bin 256 Mar 10 16:38 ..
drwxrwx--- 15 itm1 itmusers 4096 Mar 13 2008 HTML
drwxrwx--- 3 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:15 InstallITM
drwxr-x--- 4 itm1 itmusers 256 Jan 22 2005 JRE
-rw-r--r-- 1 itm1 itmusers 86 Mar 15 10:21 KPHOUT.LOG
-rw-r--r-- 1 itm1 itmusers 37 Mar 15 10:08 KPKOUT.LOG
-rw-r--r-- 1 itm1 itmusers 37 Mar 15 10:09 KPXOUT.LOG
drwxrwx--- 3 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:24 LAP
drwxrwx--- 6 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:26 aix513
drwxrwx--- 7 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:16 aix526
drwxrwx--- 3 itm1 itmusers 4096 Mar 13 15:37 bin
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 4096 Mar 13 15:12 classes
drwxrwx--- 4 itm1 itmusers 12288 Mar 15 10:23 config
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:12 doc
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:12 download
drwxr-x--- 6 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:24 gskit
drwxr-x--- 4 itm1 itmusers 4096 Mar 13 2008 images
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:14 keyfiles
drwxrwx--- 4 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:25 licenses
drwxrwx--- 2 itm1 itmusers 8192 Mar 15 10:11 logs
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:08 lost+found
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 2008 misc
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:24 old_registry
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 4096 Mar 13 15:28 registry
drwxrwx--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 May 10 2008 samples
drwxrwx--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:15 sqllib
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:12 tables
drwxrwx--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:15 teclib
drwxrwx--- 9 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:25 tmaitm6
drwxrwx--- 2 itm1 itmusers 12288 Mar 15 10:23 tmp
drwxr-x--- 2 itm1 itmusers 256 Mar 13 15:12 xfer
12.We now restart the agents by either logging in as the itm1 user or by issuing
the following command:
su - itm1 -c /opt/IBM/ITM/bin/itmcmd agent start all
13.By using the cinfo command, we check to confirm that the agents are
running and that their processes are owned by our new application user as
shown in Example 3-13 on page 94.
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Example 3-13 Showing itm1 running agents
root@aix:/opt/IBM/ITM# ./bin/cinfo -r
*********** Sun Mar 15 10:57:41 CDT 2009 ******************
User: root Groups: system bin sys security cron audit lp
Host name : aix Installer Lvl:06.20.01.00
CandleHome: /opt/IBM/ITM
***********************************************************
Host Prod PID Owner Start ID ..Status
aix ph 512006 itm1 10:42:59 None ...running
3.3.9 Configuring and starting the Virtual I/O Server agent
You can now configure the monitoring agent for the Virtual I/O Server:
1. List the available monitoring agents on the Virtual I/O Server:
$ lssvc
ITM_base
ITM_premium
TSM_base
ITUAM_base
TPC
DIRECTOR_agent
2. From the results of the previous command, decide which agent you want to
configure:
ITM_premium
3. Run the following command:
$ cfgsvc -ls ITM_premium
MANAGING_SYSTEM
HOSTNAME
RESTART_ON_REBOOT
4. Using the cfgsvc command, configure the agent attribute:
$ cfgsvc ITM_premium -attr HOSTNAME=nimserver RESTART_ON_REBOOT=TRUE
MANAGING_SYSTEM=hmc1.itso.ibm.com
Agent configuration started...
Agent configuration completed...
5. Start the monitoring agent using the startsvc command:
startsvc ITM_premium
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Next, in order for the monitoring agent to gather data from the HMC, you must:
1. Determine the name of the managed system that hosts the Virtual I/O Server
where the monitoring agent is located.
2. Obtain the public key for the Virtual I/O Server using the following command:
viosvrcmd -m <managed system> -p <vios name>-c "cfgsvc -key <ITM
agent name>"
For example:
hscroot@hmc1:~> viosvrcmd -m 9117-MMA-SN101F170-L10 -p VIOS1_L10 -c
"cfgsvc -key ITM_premium"
ssh-rsa
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAnCD5GAC3tKxv7flA4PTrHl5N57ZT+laoKOUVY9rH
LQQ0fPeerykvwJO/YUhg51D4dVD1/uN8lUnvbGrXTjVq4QwEGvOt3kwy9+ACI8E6xp/Q
HugUoBzSyJMPd3FUPeXHBTvdyY046wFak8AP7pHjuf+q3xvBOU/e3ax9rmv5oTcaNbhn
a5mclVuIy1ltbegsduwnvA3udaDpeOev733gY5aTySGGai3BRhImkGFFHbW1lqpO6IG9
H8N8b1ztOhwY4rgEYE+O9Nizx4xvmz5Z/DycA/xr/e1hhiRFKGpP2pg+RzfatKXIFGVE
FQg1l7f6iKi55WPJ9cpHtcUyLYsQIQ== root@vios1_l10
Where:
– Managed system is the name of the managed system on which the Virtual
I/O Server and monitoring agent are located.
– vios name is the name of the Virtual I/O Server LPAR as defined on the
HMC.
– ITM agent name is the monitoring agent, for example, ITM_premium.
3. Update the authorized_key2 file on the HMC using:
mkauthkeys --add public_key
Where public_key is the output obtained in Step 2. For example:
hscroot@hmc1:~> mkauthkeys --add 'ssh-rsa
AAAAB3NzaC1yc2EAAAABIwAAAQEAnCD5GAC3tKxv7flA4PTrHl5N57ZT+laoKOUVY9rH
LQQ0fPeerykvwJO/YUhg51D4dVD1/uN8lUnvbGrXTjVq4QwEGvOt3kwy9+ACI8E6xp/Q
HugUoBzSyJMPd3FUPeXHBTvdyY046wFak8AP7pHjuf+q3xvBOU/e3ax9rmv5oTcaNbhn
a5mclVuIy1ltbegsduwnvA3udaDpeOev733gY5aTySGGai3BRhImkGFFHbW1lqpO6IG9
H8N8b1ztOhwY4rgEYE+O9Nizx4xvmz5Z/DycA/xr/e1hhiRFKGpP2pg+RzfatKXIFGVE
FQg1l7f6iKi55WPJ9cpHtcUyLYsQIQ== root@vios1_l10'
After you complete these tasks, you can view the data that the monitoring agent
has gathered in the Tivoli Enterprise Console.
Note: After you configure a Secure Shell connection for one agent, you do not
need to configure it for subsequent agents.
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After you log in, the enterprise environment view workspace appears that is
shown in Figure 3-51.
Figure 3-51 Enterprise view of the environment
We describe the Tivoli Enterprise Console and managing the workspaces or
views and queries in the console in greater detail in Chapter 4, “Operations” on
page 159.
3.4 Installing and configuring TADDM
In this section, we provide steps to install Tivoli Application Development
Discovery Manager (TADDM) on AIX:
3.4.1, “Preparing AIX” on page 98
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3.4.2, “Install DB2” on page 99
3.4.3, “Create DB2 database” on page 100
3.4.4, “Install TADDM 7.1” on page 100
3.4.5, “DNSLookup configuration” on page 117
3.4.1 Preparing AIX
The test systems referenced in this publication have five logical partitions on two
physical servers. One of the partitions is the TADDM server, and the other
partitions are target servers. Even though there can be multiple TADDM servers
in a large environment, we will have one TADDM server, and it will manage
target partitions. If you are interested in configuring multiple TADDM servers for
better performance or other management purposes, refer to Deployment Guide
Series: IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1,
SG24-7616.
Before starting to install DB2 and TADDM, perform the following steps at the
operating system level:
1. Install the base operating system (AIX 6.1).
2. Install the Common Desktop Environment (CDE) bundle for X Windows.
3. Install a Web browser (Firefox 2.0) as shown in “Installing Firefox” on page 30
4. Install unzip and sudo on the TADDM server (After installing sudo, type the
visudo command and then add in the User privilege specification as shown in
Example 3-14:
cmdbadm ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
Example 3-14 Installing and configuring sudo
taddm10:/mnt/Linux_tools/ppc ] ls -l sudo*
-rw-r----- 1 root system 205789 Feb 26 11:00
sudo-1.6.9p15-2.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
-rw-r----- 1 root system 200394 Feb 26 11:00
sudo-1.6.9p15-2noldap.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
taddm10:/mnt/Linux_tools/ppc ] rpm -ivh
sudo-1.6.9p15-2noldap.aix5.2.ppc.rpm
sudo
##################################################
taddm10:/mnt/Linux_tools/ppc ] visudo
# sudoers file.
#
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# This file MUST be edited with the 'visudo' command as root.
# Failure to use 'visudo' may result in syntax or file permission
errors
# that prevent sudo from running.
#
# See the sudoers man page for the details on how to write a sudoers
file.
## Host alias specification
# User alias specification
# Cmnd alias specification
# Defaults specification
# Runas alias specification
# User privilege specification
root ALL=(ALL) ALL
cmdbadm ALL=(ALL) NOPASSWD:ALL
# Uncomment to allow people in group wheel to run all commands
5. Install d ssh and lsof on all the target servers as well as TADDM server. (The
ssh needs to be configured on both TADDM and target servers.)
6. Create a file system for TADDM (size: 3 GB): /opt/IBM/cmdb on a non-rootvg
volume group.
3.4.2 Install DB2
The TADDM installation supports several installation scenarios, including:
1. Simple installation with the installation of a DB2 database. This scenario
installs and configures a local DB2 database as part of the TADDM
installation.
2. Simple installation without the installation of a DB2 database. This scenario is
for situations where you already have your local DB2 database installed.
Note: The unzip and sudo programs are required on the TADDM server, and
the ssh and lsof programs are necessary on all the target servers, as well as
the TADDM server. You can find the ssh filesets in the Expansion Pack, while
the unzip, sudo, and lsof files are in AIX Toolbox for Linux.
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3. Advanced installation with a remote DB2 database. This scenario requires
you to install your DB2 database on a remote server prior to the installation of
TADDM.
For our implementation, we chose the second option in the previous list of
options, which is the simple installation without the installation of a DB2
database. This installation scenario is relatively straightforward, and it can help
you understand the relationship between DB2 and TADDM.
Refer to “Install DB2 Enterprise Server” on page 35 for installing a database.
3.4.3 Create DB2 database
In the TADDM DVD, there is a script named make_db2_db.sh that helps you to
create the initial database for TADDM.
To run make_db2_db.sh, log on (or su) as the instance owner, and copy the script
from $TADDM_MEDIA/TADDM/support/bin or to the home directory of the instance
owner of db2inst1. And then, run the make_db2_db.sh as shown in
Example 3-15. We will create a database that has a name of cmdb.
Example 3-15 Creating database for TADDM
$ cp /mnt/TADDM71/TADDM/support/bin/make_db2_db.sh /home/db2inst1
$ ls -l /home/db2inst1
total 24
-rwxr-xr-x 1 db2inst1 db2grp1 4288 Mar 3 10:35 make_db2_db.sh
drwxrwsr-t 16 db2inst1 db2grp1 4096 Mar 3 10:28 sqllib
$ /home/db2inst1/make_db2_db.sh cmdb
3.4.4 Install TADDM 7.1
To complete the installation of TADDM:
1. Log in to the AIX system as the root user.
2. Locate the installation media and copy it to the AIX system. We will use the
/mnt/TADDM71 directory as a TADDM installation image.
3. Go to the directory where you have the Launchpad directory and run the
launchpad.sh command, for example:
# /mnt/launchpad/launchpad.sh
4. Issue the launchpad.sh command to display the Launchpad panel, which is
shown in Figure 3-52 on page 101.
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5. Click Install Application Dependency Discovery Manager Install
product on the left pane, and then click Install Tivoli Application
Dependency Discovery Manager.
Figure 3-52 Launchpad to install TADDM
Note: If you want to invoke an install program for TADDM directly instead of
using Launchpad, then run the /TADDM_media/TADDM/setupAix.bin command
on the X Windows environment.
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6. The next window (Figure 3-53) explains, “IBM Tivoli Application
Dependency Discovery Manager must be installed on a different
computer than where its database is installed.”
Click OK to continue, because we intended to install the database and
TADDM on the same server to simplify our configuration.
Figure 3-53 Prompt for database and TADDM on a separate server
7. In the next window, provide a directory path for the TADDM setup and click
OK as shown in Figure 3-54.
Figure 3-54 Selecting TADDM setup directory
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In the next window, you can enter the user that you want to start the TADDM
Server process. This user must be a non-root user. If this user does not exist,
you might request that the InstallShield Wizard create the user account for
you by selecting Create user ID if it does not exist as shown in Figure 3-58.
10.Click Next.
Figure 3-58 Defining a TADDM user
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The next window shows installation type options. Choose the installation type:
simple or advanced. A simple installation uses default values for a local DB2
database. We chose Advanced because we have a database up and running
for TADDM as shown in Figure 3-59.
11.Click Next.
Figure 3-59 Choose the installation type
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In the next window, you can select the server type. Select the server type for
the TADDM Server that you are installing. We chose Domain Manager
(CMDB) Server, because we plan to have only one TADDM server in our
environment as shown in Figure 3-60.
12.Click Next.
Figure 3-60 Selecting server type
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The next window shows the TADDM server port information. Review the
default port information and change any port numbers that need to be
changed. We accepted all of the default port values as shown in Figure 3-61.
13.Click Next.
Figure 3-61 Port information for TADDM Server
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In the next window, you can provide the port information for the domain
manager server. We took the default values as shown in Figure 3-62.
14.Click Next.
Figure 3-62 Port information for domain manager server
In the next window, you can enter the host name for the Remote Method
Invocation (RMI) server. We took the default for the host name for the RMI
server. Next, select the platform binaries that you want installed. Choose AIX,
because we are not installing the original TADDM, but the TADDM that is part
of Management Edition (ME) for AIX.
15.To start this TADDM Server when the system is started, select Start the
server at system boot.
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The next window, which is shown in Figure 3-64, asks for the host name and
port number of the Change and Configuration Management Database
(CCMDB). We left this panel blank, because our implementation did not
include a CCMDB.
17.Click Next.
Figure 3-64 Optional CCMDB host name and port
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In the next window, which is shown in Figure 3-65, you can select the
database type for the TADDM database that you are installing.
18.We are using DB2, so we selected DB2.
We chose not to set up the WebSphere Federation Server; therefore, we did
not select the Setup WebSphere Federation Server check box.
19.Click Next.
Figure 3-65 Select database type
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The next window asks for information about the database. We created our
database prior to installing TADDM. Enter the database information here as
shown in Figure 3-66.
20.Click Next.
Figure 3-66 Database configuration information
In the next window, you can select the option for the user registry that will be
used with TADDM.
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24.When the installation completes, review the installation summary information,
and click Finish as shown in Figure 3-69.
Figure 3-69 Completion of TADDM installation
3.4.5 DNSLookup configuration
If you do not use Domain Name System (DNS) in your environment, edit the
$TADDM_installed_directory/dist/etc/collation.properties file to disable
DNSLookup (In our example, the $TADDM_installed_directory is
/opt/IBM/cmdb.):
com.collation.platform.os.disableDNSLookups=true (the default is false)
com.collation.platform.os.disableRemoteHostDNSLookups=true (the
default is false)
3.5 Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager
In this section, we provide the steps to install Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager:
3.5.1, “Our lab environment” on page 118
3.5.2, “Installation process overview” on page 119
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3.5.3, “Installing the Application server” on page 119
3.5.4, “Database configuration” on page 129
3.5.5, “Set up the processing directories” on page 139
3.5.6, “Run sample jobs” on page 141
3.5.7, “AIX and Virtual I/O Server data collectors” on page 143
3.5.8, “AIX Advanced Accounting overview” on page 144
3.5.9, “AIX data collector installation and configuration” on page 145
“Installation prerequisites” on page 146
3.5.1 Our lab environment
Our lab environment for this installation consists of the Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager server, three AIX Client LPARs, and a Virtual I/O Server.
The TUAM server has a DB2 database that is installed locally on the system. The
client LPARs and the Virtual I/O Server are configured with AIX Advanced
Accounting, and then, the data collector is installed on each of the systems as
shown in Figure 3-70.
Figure 3-70 TUAM lab set up
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3.5.2 Installation process overview
At a high level, the installation process for IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager Virtualization Edition consists of these tasks:
Install the application server on the system.
Create the database, and perform the initial configuration and database
initialization.
Install the Business Intelligence Reporting Tools (BIRT) reporting server. We
discuss this topic in 4.4.4, “Installing Business Intelligence and Reporting
Tools (BIRT)” on page 250.
Install data collection in the target systems.
3.5.3 Installing the Application server
To complete the installation of IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager:
1. Log in to the server as root.
2. Change your directory to the location that contains the Launchpad program.
In our example, we have mounted and copied all of the installation files that
are needed to a NFS server and we are mounting remotely over /mnt. Run
launchpad.sh, and the Launchpad program appears.
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3. The installation of DB2 Enterprise Server Edition is a prerequisite to installing
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager. We provide the instructions for
installing DB2 in 3.2, “Installing and configuring DB2” on page 34. If you have
not already installed DB2, you can install it at this time either by following the
steps provided in that section, or simply by choosing to install DB2 at the
same time that you set up the database in the Launchpad. In the Launchpad,
select Install Usage and Accounting Manager Create Databaseas
shown in Figure 3-71.
Figure 3-71 Create database
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The database is created, and the log appears as shown in Figure 3-72. Click
Close to continue.
Figure 3-72 Successful database completion message
4. In the Launchpad, select Install Usage and Accounting Manager Install
Product Install IBM Usage and Accounting Manager as shown in
Figure 3-73 on page 122.
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Figure 3-73 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Launchpad Installation
5. After choosing to install IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager, you will
be prompted for the installation path as shown in Figure 3-74. Enter your path
and click OK.
Figure 3-74 CD prompt
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You will be presented with the license terms and agreement as displayed in
Figure 3-76.
7. Read the terms and agreement, and if you accept these terms, choose I
accept both the IBM and the non-IBM terms and then click Next to
continue.
Figure 3-76 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition License
Agreement
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You will then see the InstallShield summary as displayed in Figure 3-77. The
InstallShield summary gives details of exactly what will be installed on your
system and the location and size of the installation.
8. Click Install to continue or Cancel to quit the installation.
Figure 3-77 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition summary
information
While IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager installs, the InstallShield
changes status to update the progress of your installation. The installation
takes several minutes and might appear stalled on a couple of the windows
for several minutes prior to continuing.
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Figure 3-78 is an example of one of the installation status updates. You can
cancel the installation at any point during the install by selecting Cancel while
the InstallShield is running.
Figure 3-78 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition InstallShield
status
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After the installation completes, the InstallShield completion panel appears as
shown in Figure 3-79. If there are any issues with the installation, you can
obtain the install log at:
/opt/ibm/tivoli/common/AUC/logs/install
9. If the installation succeeds, select Finish to exit the wizard.
Figure 3-79 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition installation
completion message
Verifying the application server
After the application server is installed, run the Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager console application:
1. Change directory to the embedded WebSphere Application Server directory:
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/bin
2. In this directory, run the script to first stop the embedded WebSphere
Application Server and then to restart the server using the stopServer.sh and
startServer.sh commands. The application name for TUAM is server1.
Example 3-16 on page 128 shows an example of successfully running the
commands.
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Example 3-16 TUAM embedded WAS server restart
tuam10:/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/bin ] ./stopServer.sh server1
ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/server1/stopServer.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the AppSrv01 profile
ADMU3100I: Reading configuration for server: server1
ADMU3201I: Server stop request issued. Waiting for stop status.
ADMU4000I: Server server1 stop completed.
tuam10:/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/bin ] ./startServer.sh server1
ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/server1/startServer.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the AppSrv01 profile
ADMU3100I: Reading configuration for server: server1
ADMU3200I: Server launched. Waiting for initialization status.
ADMU3000I: Server server1 open for e-business; process id is 692414
3. Open a Web browser and direct it to the Integrated Solution Console URL:
http://tuam10:11052/ibm/console
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4. After you log in, the Welcome page appears (Figure 3-80). Verify that the
product information matches the version that you have installed.
Figure 3-80 Integrated Solutions Console Welcome page
3.5.4 Database configuration
After creating the initial database and installing the application server, the next
step is to configure the database server to connect correctly to the application
server. Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager requires a database with a page
size of at least 16 KB. This size is not the default. In order to change it:
1. Log on to the system containing the DB2 UDB database as the database
user, db2inst1. Query the DB2 system tables to determine whether a large
enough buffer pool exists. The SQL statement and results are in
Example 3-17 on page 130.
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Example 3-17 Connecting to database and listing buffer pool
$ tuam10:/mnt/launchpad ] su - db2inst1
$ db2 connect to ituamdb
Database Connection Information
Database server = DB2/AIX64 9.1.4
SQL authorization ID = DB2INST1
Local database alias = ITUAMDB
$ db2 "SELECT PAGESIZE, SUBSTR(BPNAME,1,20) AS BUFFERPOOL FROM
SYSCAT.BUFFERPOOLS"
PAGESIZE BUFFERPOOL
----------- --------------------
4096 IBMDEFAULTBP
2. Define a buffer pool with a page size larger than the 4 KB default by using the
CREATE BUFFERPOOL command. The SQL syntax is shown in
Example 3-18.
Example 3-18 Creation of larger buffer pool
$ db2 "create bufferpool BP32K size 1000 pagesize 32k"
DB20000I The SQL command completed successfully.
3. Create a regular table space that uses the larger buffer pool as shown in
Example 3-19.
Example 3-19 Creation of a regular table space
$ db2 "create tablespace USERSPACE2 PAGESIZE 32K managed by system
using ('/home/db2inst1/db2inst1/NODE0000/SQL00002/SQLT004') bufferpool
BP32K"
DB20000I The SQL command completed successfully.
4. Create a temporary table space that uses the larger buffer pool as shown in
Example 3-20. Ensure that the temporary parameter is used when creating
this table space.
Example 3-20 Creation of temporary table space
$ db2 "create temporary tablespace TEMPSPACE2 PAGESIZE 32K managed by
system using (‘/home/db2inst1/db2inst1/NODE0000/SQL00002/SQLT005’)
bufferpool BP32K"
DB20000I The SQL command completed successfully.
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5. Restart the database instance. Use the LIST APPLICATION command to check
where the are any processes that are still using the database. The restart
process is shown in Example 3-21.
Example 3-21 Restarting the database manager
$ db2 list application
SQL1611W No data was returned by Database System Monitor.
$ db2stop
03/04/2009 10:18:51 0 0 SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.
SQL1064N DB2STOP processing was successful.
$ db2start
03/04/2009 10:19:03 0 0 SQL1063N DB2START processing was successful.
SQL1063N DB2START processing was successful.
tuam10:/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/bin ] ./startServer.sh server1
ADMU0116I: Tool information is being logged in file
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/logs/server1/startServer.log
ADMU0128I: Starting tool with the AppSrv01 profile
ADMU3100I: Reading configuration for server: server1
ADMU3200I: Server launched. Waiting for initialization status.
ADMU3000I: Server server1 open for e-business; process id is 692414
$ db2 list application
Auth Id Application Appl. Application Id DB # of
Name Handle Name Agents
-------- -------------- ---------- -------------------------------------------------------------- -------- -----
DB2INST1 db2jcc_applica 34 9.12.5.9.43682.090304163507 ITUAMDB 1
DB2INST1 db2evmg_DB2DET 33 *LOCAL.DB2.090304163444 ITUAMDB 1
DB2INST1 db2taskd 32 *LOCAL.DB2.090304163442 ITUAMDB 1
DB2INST1 db2stmm 31 *LOCAL.DB2.090304163441 ITUAMDB 1
DB2INST1 db2jcc_applica 30 9.12.5.9.43680.090304163440 ITUAMDB 1
Note: If db2 LIST APPLICATION returns connections to the database,
which it does in the second run in Example 3-21 on page 131, you must
run /opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/bin/stopServer.sh server1 to
terminate the connections. If you are running other applications that are
accessing DB2, you must also stop those applications.
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Configuring the JDBC driver
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager requires two JDBC drivers to connect to
the DB2 database. The drivers are included with the DB2 base installation, and
you need to load them into IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager using the
Integrated Solutions Console. The default path for the JDBC drivers is
/opt/IBM/db2/V9.1/java, and the two drivers that we need to use are:
db2jcc.jar
db2jcc_license_cu.jar
To configure the JDBC driver:
1. To add the drivers to TUAM, open the Integrated Solutions Console (ISC)
menu and select Usage and Accounting Manager System
Maintenance Configuration. On the Drivers tab, click New to define a
driver. Enter the path and filename of the DB2 UDB drivers as shown in
Figure 3-81. Click OK.
Figure 3-81 Adding JDBC driver db2jcc.jar
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Configuring the data sources
The second step to accessing the DB2 database from Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager is to set up the data sources. We must set the database
sources for the Server data source at minimum:
1. In the ISC, select Usage and Accounting Manager System
Maintenance Data Sources on the Server tab, and the database that you
created from the Launchpad will be listed. If you do not see your database
listed under the Server tab, you can add your database on this same tab by
clicking New and filling in the fields as shown in Figure 3-83.
2. Then, click OK at the bottom of the page.
If your database is already listed, you need to edit the data source by
selecting the view pop-up menu icon next to the data source
EditDataSource. The same window that is shown in Figure 3-83 appears.
Ensure that you change the fields for your environment, including User Name,
Password, Host, and Database Type. When complete, click OK on the
bottom of the page.
Figure 3-83 Adding or editing a data source
If you use multiple databases to store Usage and Accounting Manager (for
example, you have a production database and a development database), you
must select the data source for one database as the default for
administration, data processing, and Web reporting.
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3. In the ISC, click Usage and Accounting Manager System
Maintenance Data Sources on the Server tab.
Then, set the Default Admin, Processing, and Reporting data source by
selecting the data source name and clicking Set Admin from the pop-up
menu.
4. Then, select Set Processing, and finally, select Set Reporting so that all
three functions are now set and show on the Server tab with a yes in the last
three columns as shown in Figure 3-84.
Figure 3-84 Setting the Default Admin, Processing, and Reporting data source
5. After the JDBC drivers have been loaded and the data source properties have
all been configured, you must stop and start the embedded WebSphere
server for the changes to take affect. As the root user, run:
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/bin/stopServer.sh server1
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/bin/startServer.sh server1
Note: This process is applicable for Server data sources only.
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Verify connectivity to database
We need to test the connection to verify that Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager is able to communicate to the DB2 database. To test connection in the
ISC, go to Usage and Accounting Manager System Maintenance Data
Sources, click the pop-up menu next to your database name, and select Edit.
Figure 3-85 appears. Select Test at the bottom of the page.
Figure 3-85 Data Source ISC window
You should receive a response that your connection was successful. If you
receive any errors, for example, the password is incorrect, correct the issue and
try again.
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Initialize the database
The steps used to initialize the database are:
1. To initialize the Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager database using the
ISC menu, select Usage and Accounting Manager System
Maintenance Database Initialize Database as shown in Figure 3-86.
2. Click Initialize Database to initialize the database.
Figure 3-86 Initialize database
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The confirmation message that is shown in Figure 3-87 appears. Verify that
the database name and server match the system that you want to initialize.
3. Click Yes to continue to initialize the database.
Figure 3-87 Confirmation window for database initialization
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The results of the initialization appear.
4. Confirm that the database initialized successfully. If there were any issues,
review the log that is present, correct the issue, and try again. A successful
initialization log is shown in Figure 3-88.
Figure 3-88 Results of database initialization
3.5.5 Set up the processing directories
To set up the processing directories:
1. After you install Usage and Accounting Manager, you must set up directories
to store the required files that are listed when you select ISC
Configuration Processing and Configuration Reporting. The
Configuration tab Processing page is shown in Figure 3-89 on page 140. In
order for a remote system to process or send files to these directories, that
system must have read-write permissions on these directories:
–Job Files Path
Location of job files or the XML file that defines the process of collecting
data and loading it into Usage and Accounting Manager database.
– Sample Job Files Path
Directory that contains the sample job files.
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– Job Log Files Path
The job logs provide processing results for each step that is defined in the
job file. If a warning or failure occurs during processing, the file indicates at
which point the warning or failure occurred.
– Collector Log Files Path
Directory that will contain the collector log files.
Figure 3-89 ISC Configuration Processing
2. The directories that are on the Configuration tab Reporting page need to be
changed from the default directories for Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager Virtualization Edition. The paths are:
– Path to Standard Reports Folder
Directory that contains Usage and Accounting standard reports. There are
five templates included for BIRT with IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager VE.
– Path to Custom Reports Folder
Directory that contains custom reports. You create custom reports with
your report developer either independently or by using one of the standard
reports as a template.
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– Path to Published Reports Folder
Directory that contains published reports. Published reports are reports
that have been saved with the data that was generated at the time that the
reports were run.
The type of reporting supported with Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
Virtualization Edition is BIRT reporting, which is an Open Source reporting
tool. We need to set each of the reporting directories to point to the BIRT
directories as shown in Figure 3-90.
Figure 3-90 ISC Configuration tab Reporting page
3.5.6 Run sample jobs
Sample jobs allow you to validate the installation:
1. Before performing any additional configuration in Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager, run the provided samples:
/opt/ibm/tuam/bin/RunSamples.sh | tee RunSamples.log
You can ignore warning messages pertaining to Simple Mail Transfer
Protocol (SMTP), because we have not configured any of these jobs to use
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Other errors are caused by not installing the enterprise collector pack (ecp).
To perform a final database cleanup, re-initialize it as described in the
previous section, “Initialize the database” on page 137.
Alternatively, you can unload the data using the ISC menu selections Usage
and Accounting Manager Chargeback Maintenance Load Tracking
as shown in Figure 3-92. Clear the check box for the End Date filter and mark
all by clicking the Select check boxes.
Figure 3-92 Load tracking
2. Click Delete Load and confirm the security question to delete the data.
3.5.7 AIX and Virtual I/O Server data collectors
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization for System p includes
collectors for:
AIX or Linux Operating System (pacct)
AIX or Linux File System
AIX Advanced Accounting
Virtual I/O Server data collector
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The configuration of the data collectors must be automated in order to gather the
data from all the systems in the environment back to the Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager Server. You will need to install the data and configure the
data collectors on each of the AIX or Virtual I/O Server systems where you want
to gather data. The process of gathering AIX Advanced Accounting Data for use
with Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager is shown in Figure 3-93.
Figure 3-93 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager data flow
3.5.8 AIX Advanced Accounting overview
AIX Advanced Accounting was introduced in AIX 5L™ V5.3, to provide more
detailed accounting than the traditional UNIX® accounting. Advanced
Accounting supports the new virtualization technologies that are available with
Power Systems and AIX, such as logical partitions (LPARs), micro-partitioning,
and workload partitions (WPARs). You can also configure and use AIX
Advanced Accounting on the Virtual I/O Server.
The data sources for Advanced Accounting include resources, such as disks,
network interfaces, virtual devices, file systems, processors, and memory. We
discuss the eleven major transaction record IDs in Advanced Accounting. When
you turn on accounting, you need to select to enable any of the transactions that
you want to track. Table 3-4 on page 145 lists the transaction records along with
the type of data that it will record.
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Table 3-4 AIX Advanced Accounting record types
You can obtain more details about AIX Advanced Accounting in Chapter 5
“Advanced Accounting,” in Accounting and Auditing on AIX 5L, SG24-6396.
3.5.9 AIX data collector installation and configuration
In our implementation, data collection on the client side consists of three parts:
AIX Advanced Accounting writes the accounting information into predefined
files in the directory /var/aacct.
Every hour, any new primary accounting files are copied from the directory
/var/aacct to the directory $TUAM/history and released to be reused.
Every night, the files in the directory $TUAM/history are processed to create
separate accounting files for each Advanced Accounting record type in
$TUAM/CS_input_source.
The Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager server collects the separate
accounting files daily using the scp command.
In Figure 3-93 on page 144, $TUAM represents our Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager data collector installation directory /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix.
AACCT Transaction Record ID Type of data
1-2 Process activity
4 System interval
6 File system activity
7 Network interface I/O
8 Disk I/O
10 Virtual I/O Server I/O
11 Virtual I/O Server client I/O
16 ARM-enabled transactions
36 WPAR system interval
38 WPAR file system activity
39 WPAR disk I/O
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Installation prerequisites
For the installation of the AIX Advanced Accounting and Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager data collector, we created a directory on the NFS server
that contains the files that are described in Table 3-5.
Table 3-5 Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager AIX collector installation files
You must also install the openssh packages on all the systems to which you will
be adding data collectors. You can locate the openssh packages on the
Expansion Pack CD-ROM that is included with AIX V6.1 Enterprise Edition.
Example 3-22 shows the installation script for IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager AIX collector.
Example 3-22 Installation script: install-tuam.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
INSTPATH=/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix
TUAMUSER=tuam
#First set up AIX Advanced Accounting
acctctl on
acctctl fadd /var/aacct/aacct0.dat 1
acctctl fadd /var/aacct/aacct1.dat 1
acctctl fadd /var/aacct/aacct2.dat 1
acctctl fadd /var/aacct/aacct3.dat 1
File name Description
tuam_unpack_uc_collector Installation script for the Tivoli Usage
and Accounting Manager package
ituam_uc_aix5.tar Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
data collector package for AIX
ituam_schedule.sh Our custom script to manage hourly and
daily processing of AIX Advanced
Accounting data
install-tuam.sh Our custom installation script for setting
up AIX Advanced Accounting and Tivoli
Usage and Accounting Manager
id_rsa.pub SSH public key for root user of our Tivoli
Usage and Accounting Manager server,
which is required for setting up data
collection and generated with the
ssh-keygen command
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acctctl fadd /var/aacct/aacct4.dat 1
acctctl isystem 5
acctctl iprocess 5
acctctl agproc on
acctctl agke on
acctctl agram on
mkitab ‘aacct:2:once:/usr/bin/acctctl on >/dev/console 2>&1’
# Next set up userid for TUAM collector and enable ssh from the TUAM server
mkgroup ${TUAMUSER}
mkuser pgrp=${TUAMUSER} ${TUAMUSER}
mkdir ~${TUAMUSER}/.ssh
cp ./id_rsa.pub ~${TUAMUSER}/.ssh/authorized_keys2
chown -R ${TUAMUSER}.${TUAMUSER} ~${TUAMUSER}/.ssh
chmod 755 ~${TUAMUSER} ~${TUAMUSER}/.ssh
#Set up the script for the data collection
mkdir -p /usr/local/bin
cp ./ituam_schedule.sh /usr/local/bin
#Install the TUAM collector
mkdir -p ${INSTPATH}
cp ./tuam_unpack_uc_collector ./ituam_uc_aix5.tar ${INSTPATH}
cd ${INSTPATH}
#use aacct_config=true when calling tuam_unpack_uc_collector to prevent
#traditional UNIX process accounting for being started
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector path=${INSTPATH} user=${TUAMUSER} aacct_config=true
rm ${INSTPATH}/tuam_unpack_uc_collector ${INSTPATH}/ituam_uc_aix5.tar
chmod 755 ${INSTPATH}/tuam_unpack_uc_collector ${INSTPATH}/ituam_uc_aix5.tar
#Adjust TUAM AAA collector to include client vscsi
cp ${INSTPATH}/data/A_config.par ${INSTPATH}/data/A_config.par.back
cat ${INSTPATH}/data/A_config.par|sed
‘/^AACCT_TRANS_IDS/s/^.*$/AACCT_TRANS_IDS=”1,4,6,7,8,11”/’ >/tmp/A_config.tmp
cp /tmp/A_config.tmp $INSTPATH}/data/A_config.par
#Adjust the crontab for the data collection
crontab -l sed ‘/.*aacct/s/^/#/’ >/tmp/tempcrontab
echo ‘59 * * * * /usr/local/bin/ituam_schedule.sh >
/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/log/ituam_schedule.log 2>&1’ >> /tmp/tempcrontab
crontab /tmp/tempcrontab
rm /tmp/tempcrontab
Example 3-23 on page 148 shows an example of the collector installation script
output from one of our systems.
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Example 3-23 The install-tuam.sh output
taddm10:/mnt/tuam ] ls -l
total 42248
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 1921 Mar 19 15:18 install-tuam.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 450 Mar 19 11:43 ituam-schedule.sh
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 21575680 Mar 19 11:45 ituam_uc_aix5.tar
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 393 Mar 19 11:52 tuam10.pub
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 36719 Mar 19 11:45 tuam_unpack_uc_collector
taddm10:/mnt/tuam ] ./install-tuam.sh
chmod: /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/tuam_unpack_collector: No such file or directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Begin ITUAM UNIX/Linux Data Collector Installation
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: ITUAM UNIX/Linux Data Collector will be installed in
/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix
Nodename : taddm10
Platform Type : AIX
Distribution tar file : ituam_uc_aix5.tar
ITUAM UNIX/Linux Collector Home : /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix
ITUAM UNIX/Linux Collector User : tuam
ITUAM UNIX/Linux cs_method : HOLD
ITUAM UNIX/Linux server :
ITUAM UNIX/Linux cs_user :
Config AACCT : TRUE
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Unpacking ituam_uc_aix5.tar in /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix
x accounting
x accounting/README.txt, 0 bytes, 0 tape blocks
...
x scripts/oracle/ituam_stop_odb, 10526 bytes, 21 tape blocks
x scripts/oracle/ituam_view.sql, 3001 bytes, 6 tape blocks
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/accounting
directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/bin directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/etc directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/scripts directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/data directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initializing ITUAM Configuration File.
Setting - ITUAM_ACCDAT
Setting - ITUAM_BIN
Setting - ITUAM_DATA
Setting - ITUAM_DESCR
Setting - ITUAM_ETC
Setting - ITUAM_EXAMPLES
Setting - ITUAM_HELP
Setting - ITUAM_HISTORY
Setting - ITUAM_HOME
Setting - ITUAM_LOG
Setting - ITUAM_SCRIPTS
Setting - ITUAM_SUPER
Setting - ITUAM_USER
Setting - ITUAM_SERVER
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Setting - ITUAM_DEST
Setting - ITUAM_ACCOUNT
Setting - ITUAM_GROUP
Setting - AACCT_ONLY
Setting - ITUAM_SAMPLE
Setting - CS_PLATFORM
Setting - CS_USER
Setting - CS_KEY
Setting - CS_UPATH
Setting - CS_METHOD
Setting - CS_PROC_PATH
********************************************************************************
Starting ITUAM/UNIX create_A_storage.par Script at Thu Mar 19 15:37:26 CDT 2009
********************************************************************************
ITUAM/UNIX create_A_storage.par: Moving /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/data/A_storage.par
to /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/data/A_storage.par.bck
ITUAM/UNIX create_A_storage.par: Creating new
/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/data/A_storage.par
********************************************************************************
Ending ITUAM/UNIX create_A_storage.par Script at Thu Mar 19 15:37:34 CDT 2009
********************************************************************************
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/description
directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/examples directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Initialize /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/help directory
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: Updating root crontab
previous ituam_uc_nightly entry replaced in crontab
./tuam_unpack_uc_collector: ITUAM UNIX/Linux Data Collector installation complete
Virtual I/O Server data collector set up
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtualization Edition also supports usage
reporting for Virtual I/O Servers. Because the Virtual I/O Server is a closed
architecture, the data collectors come installed with Virtual I/O Server Version
1.4. We recommend fix pack 8.1.0 or later to run Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager agents. Example 3-23 on page 148 shows the steps to turning on data
collection on Virtual I/O Server. The commands are run by the Virtual I/O Server
user padmin. The high-level steps are:
1. List all the available IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager agents using
the lssvc command.
2. Using the cfgsvc command, list the attributes that are associated with the
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager agent that you want to configure.
3. Configure the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager agent with its
associated attributes using the cfgsvc command.
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4. Start the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager agent using the startsvc
command.
Example 3-24 Configuration and start of data collector on Virtual I/O Server
$ lssvc
ITM_base
ITM_premium
TSM_base
ITUAM_base
TPC
DIRECTOR_agent
$ cfgsvc -ls ITUAM_base
ACCT_DATA0
ACCT_DATA1
ISYSTEM
IPROCESS
$ cfgsvc ITUAM_base -attr ACCT_DATA0=10 ACCT_DATA1=10 ISYSTEM=5
IPROCESS=5
$ startsvc ITUAM_base
3.6 Installing and configuring WPAR manager
In this section, we briefly describe the concept of workload partitions (WPARs)
and the functions of WPAR Manager.
3.6.1 WPAR concept
In AIX 6, workload partitions add an additional operating system software-based
layer for the virtualization of operating environments. Each workload partition can
host applications and isolate them from applications executing within other
WPARs. This capability can be leveraged on any server platform capable of
running AIX Version 6, including IBM pSeries POWER4 technology-based
servers and later. Figure 3-94 on page 151 shows three application-specific or
service-specific WPARs being hosted within a single LPAR.
Note: For installing and configuring a WPAR Manager, refer to the following
publication that describes WPAR and WPAR Manager in-depth: Workload
Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1, SG24-7656.
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Figure 3-94 WPARs reduce LPARs but still provide workload isolation
Workload partitions can be created within an AIX V6 LPAR. Each workload
partition provides an isolated environment for the application that it hosts. From
the application or service point of view, the WPAR provides a replica of a
standard AIX operating system environment. Furthermore, the WPAR runtime
environment can be dedicated to only hosting that application (the workload) and
can be tuned to optimize performance based on the specific workload
characteristics of that application. Logically, WPARs can be considered as an
operating system-level boundary around a specific set of AIX processes. Inside
the WPAR, the applications have the following benefits:
Private execution environments
Isolation from other processes outside the WPAR
Dedicated network addresses and file systems
Interprocess communication that is restricted to processes executing only in
the same workload partition
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IBM Workload Partition Manager for AIX (WPAR Manager) is a tool for
monitoring and managing WPARs. It will also gather information about CPU,
memory, and other useful statistics.
There are new concepts introduced in WPAR:
Global environment
This term refers to the part of the AIX operating system that hosts workload
partitions. This environment is the classical AIX environment. Typically, only
the AIX V6 system’s root superuser has access to to this environment,
because it must be set up to host WPARs exclusively, not native applications.
System WPAR
This term refers to a more flexible WPAR-based instance of AIX. It contains
dedicated writable file systems and system service daemons.
Application WPAR
This term refers to a WPAR that is set up to host only a single application or
process. It provides an AIX runtime environment that is suitable for execution
of one or more processes that can be started from a single command.
3.6.2 WPAR Manager components and functions
WPAR Manager is a Web-based Java application that uses Common Agent
Services (CAS) and a database. CAS is installed automatically when you install
WPAR Manager.
WPAR Manager can use either Apache Derby or DB2 as a database. During
WPAR Manager installation, you select which database to use. If DB2 is
selected, you also have to install and configure DB2, which is a separate
installation process.
After the basic installation, CAS, WPAR Manager, and the database must be
configured. When these configurations are complete, WPAR Manager is ready to
orchestrate mobility events among servers.
Common Agent Service
To help you understand how WPAR Manager components work, we provide a
brief overview of the Common Agent Services (CAS) framework. Figure 3-95 on
page 153 shows WPAR Manager components, including the management server
and two managed servers.
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In this scenario:
WPAR Manager is the application and user interface. It is in charge of
communicating with the user and updating the database.
CAS Agent Manager is in charge of the communication between the WPAR
agent and the WPAR Manager in the LPAR.
The database is the repository for all WPAR definition data.
There are WPARs running on the managed servers. B and G are set up as
system WPARs, and W is set up as an application WPAR.
In this setup, the WPAR Manager must be able to move WPARs W and G
between the two nodes.
Figure 3-95 Components of WPAR Manager
Deploying WPAR Management software usually requires a server that hosts the
management software and an agent that has to be installed on each server to be
managed, as shown in Figure 3-95.
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The effort required to install, configure, maintain, and monitor various agent
implementations can become an extremely time-consuming management task.
In addition, the number of redundant functions that is provided by each agent
implementation (for example, listening to ports, the runtime daemon, and
memory consumption) leads to ineffective usage of the system resources.
The goal of Common Agent Services is to minimize the complexity of the
software management deployment by reducing the effort that is needed for
deployment and utilizing system resources more effectively.
CAS accomplishes this goal by providing a common framework that can be
reused by various management applications that are deployed across the
enterprise.
This Common Agent Services framework consists of the following components:
Agent Manager
Resource Manager
Common Agent
Agent Manager
The Agent Manager is the server component of the Common Agent Services. It
provides authentication and authorization services, enables secure connections
between managed systems in your deployment, and maintains the registry about
the managed systems and the software running on those systems. It also
handles queries from the Resource Managers against the database.
The Agent Manager has the following components:
The Agent Manager service
The Agent Manager service serves as a certificate and registration authority
to provide authentication and authorization using X.590 digital certificates and
the Secure Sockets Layer (SSL) protocol. It also handles requests for registry
information from Common Agents and Resource Managers.
Resource Managers and Common Agents must register with the Agent
Manager service before they can use its services to communicate with each
other. This registration is password-protected, and there are separate
passwords for the Common Agents and Resource Managers.
Note: The Agent Manager component implements the CAS in the WPAR
Manager application. This agent talks to the Common Agent on the managed
systems.
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The registry
The registry is the database that contains the current configuration of all
known Common Agents and Resource Managers.
Information contained in the registry includes:
– The identity, digital certificates, and communication information for each
Resource Manager
– The identity, digital certificates, and communication information for each
Common Agent
– Basic configuration information for each Common Agent (for example,
hardware type and operating system version)
– The status of each Common Agent
– The last error or, optionally, a considerable number of errors, reported by
each Common Agent
The registry information is updated by events, such as the registration of
Common Agents and Resource Managers, and by periodic updates from the
Common Agents.
The agent recovery service
The agent recovery service provides error logging for Common Agents that
cannot communicate with other Agent Manager services.
WPAR Manager does not make use of this feature.
Note: For WPAR Manager, you only need to specify the registration
password for the Common Agents. The password for the Resource
Manager is automatically generated during the configuration of WPAR
Manager.
Note: For WPAR Manager, the Agent Manager uses an Apache Derby
database to implement the registry. This Derby database is included within
the lightweight runtime fileset that is delivered with WPAR Manager.
Note: The Agent Manager functionality for WPAR Manager is in the fileset
wparmgt.cas.agentmgr.
CAS Agent Manager listens to communication from WPAR Agent and
WPAR Manager on ports 9511, 9512, and 9513. These ports are default
ports that can be overridden by the user during the configuration of WPAR
Manager.
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Resource Manager
A Resource Manager is management software that uses the services of the
Agent Manager to communicate securely with, and obtain information about, the
managed systems running the Common Agent software. The Resource Manager
uses the services of the Common Agent to deploy and run its software on the
managed systems.
Note that in our case, the WPAR Manager component of WPAR Manager is the
Resource Manager of the CAS framework.
Common Agent
Each managed system in your deployment runs a Common Agent, which
provides a single implementation of common services that can be used by all
management products.
The Common Agent consists of:
Common Agent services
Product-specific subagent (for example, for WPAR Manager, this code is the
code for WPAR Agent)
For instance, if two management products (A and B) manage the same system,
the Common Agent is installed only one time on that system, and it runs two
product-specific subagents: one for product A and one for product B.
The Common Agent provides the following functions:
A single set of security credentials and a common security infrastructure for
all management applications
Automated management of security credentials
The Common Agent certificate is automatically renewed when it is near the
expiration date.
Note: The Resource Manager functionality for WPAR Manager is in the fileset
wparmgt.mgr.rte. This fileset also includes the functionality of the WPAR
Management console.
WPAR Manager listens to ports 14080 and 14443 and communicates to port
9510 on the WPAR Agent. WPAR Manager listens to ports 9511, 9512, and
9513 on the CAS Agent Manager. These ports are default ports that can be
overridden by the user during the configuration of WPAR Manager.
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Common Agent health monitoring and configuration monitoring services
The Common Agent has a “heartbeat” function that sends periodic status and
configuration reports to the Agent Manager. It also allows any subagent to
participate and to provide application-specific status.
The frequency of this update can be set, or it can be turned off. Management
applications can register to the Agent Manager to receive these updates.
The registry contains only the most recent configuration update. By default, only
the most recent status information is saved for each Common Agent. The
retention period is configurable.
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Chapter 4. Operations
This chapter describes and discusses several of the more common optimization
and utilization features of the components in day to day operations within a
Power System environment:
4.1, “Live Application Mobility” on page 160
4.2, “Operating TM” on page 161
4.3, “Operating TADDM” on page 185
4.4, “Operating IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager” on page 237
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4.1 Live Application Mobility
The ability to relocate a system’s or an application’s workload partitions
(WPARs) from one AIX host or global environment to another AIX host or global
environment means that we can optimize our virtualized System p hosts by
deploying and redeploying WPARs using application mobility manually or
automatically based on policies.
Policy-based Live Application Mobility assists in the overall utilization of WPARs
within an environment by balancing the workloads across a range of Power
Systems within the environment without administrator intervention.
There are two modes of operation available for relocation: a classic mode that
stops execution within the WPAR during the migration and an asynchronous
mode that allows execution to continue during the migration. During the mobility
operations, the application undergoes active relocation (
hot migration) without
stopping or disrupting the application.
Application mobility provides us with not only another optimization tool to better
utilize our physical resources, it also allows for better management of planned
migrations of workloads from one system to another system during planned
outages, for instance, such as hardware maintenance, firmware installation, or
energy conservation. The workload does not need to be aware of the migration,
but we always recommend that you perform proper planning and testing before
moving anything into or around a production environment.
For further information, refer to:
http://www.redbooks.ibm.com/abstracts/sg247656.html?Open
Note: Live Application Mobility currently relies on common Network FIle
System (NFS)-mounted file systems between the two global environments or
AIX images. Future support for SAN and GPFS file systems is expected.
Note: Live Application Mobility is not designed to, in any way, be a
replacement for a High Availability (HA) solution. However, live application
mobility can complement the IBM PowerHA offering.
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4.2 Operating TM
The following sections outline the basic operations involved with IBM Tivoli
Monitoring:
4.2.1, “Workspaces” on page 161
4.2.3, “Managing Tivoli Monitoring Services” on page 168
4.2.4, “Historical data collection” on page 169
4.2.5, “Understanding situation events” on page 172
4.2.6, “IBM Tivoli Monitoring command line” on page 175
4.2.9, “Best practices” on page 184
4.2.1 Workspaces
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring tool that is packaged as part of AIX Enterprise Edition
comes bundled with a range of queries and views to assist you with getting the
tool operational in a short amount of time. You can then create your own views
and queries, based on the predefined offerings for AIX, Virtual I/O Server,
Hardware Management Console (HMC), and common event console (CEC).
4.2.2 Views
A range of predefined workspaces are built into your IBM Tivoli Monitoring
product that consists primarily of chart views and table views. You can save them
as new workspaces and customize them with a range of views.
Data views
The table and chart views are the first steps to getting something meaningful
from the data that is being collected. When you understand what values and
states cause problems, you can refine your views to show what is important.
The table view and the chart view provide current and historical information
about monitoring data from Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring agents, such as system
performance and configuration:
Pie charts show portions of a whole (such as a percentage).
Bar and plot charts, as well as gauges, show the values of each attribute.
The following sections provide an explanation of each of the views and provide
an example of the same system metrics from our Network Installation
Management (NIM) server represented in the various views. Each view can be
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initiated by clicking the corresponding icon from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
Toolbar and dragging the icon onto the panel that you want displayed in that
particular view.
Table views
Table views show current data that is retrieved from a monitoring agent and
show one column for every attribute. The table reports a single row of data or
multiple rows, depending on the nature of the attribute group.
The table view also has features for refining the display to suit your needs. These
features include adjusting column width, locking columns, and using drag and
drop to change the order of columns. You can also sort column data differently in
ascending or descending sequence by clicking the column heading. Figure 4-1
shows a table view.
Figure 4-1 Table view
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Chart views
You can view the predefined workspaces in one of five ways as shown in
Table 4-1 on page 168:
A
pie chart shows a slice for every data point in a single data series (row). Pie
charts are well suited for showing the proportional value of related attributes
to a whole, such as the percentage attributes that show how memory is being
used (Figure 4-2).
Figure 4-2 Pie chart
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A bar chart displays a bar for each data point. Bar charts are best suited for
comparing values among related attributes. The stacking bar chart is well
suited for showing multiple values for the same attribute (Figure 4-3).
Figure 4-3 Bar chart
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A
plot chart shows changes over a period of time by drawing a continuous
line from one data point to the next data point with one data point for each
data sampling and one line for each selected attribute. The plot chart can be
used for plotting multiple-row attribute groups (or historical data from a
single-row attribute group) and multiple managed systems. You can also
control the refresh rate of the plot chart so that it is independent of the refresh
rate of the workspace as a whole. The plot chart is well suited for showing
trends over time and among related attributes (Figure 4-4).
Figure 4-4 Plot chart
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A circular gauge shows the proportional amount of a data series with one
gauge for each chosen attribute. This type of chart is well suited for showing
individual elements that change frequently, such as a percentage of user time
(Figure 4-5).
Figure 4-5 Circular gauge
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A
linear gauge shows the collective value of every item in a single data series
with one gauge for each chosen attribute. This type of chart is well suited for
showing cumulative values (Figure 4-6).
Figure 4-6 Linear gauge
In Table 4-1 on page 168, we look at the best rendering of the individual views
based on the data to be displayed. This view changes from query to query and
largely depends on how you configure the workspace.
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Table 4-1 Chart types and their best uses
4.2.3 Managing Tivoli Monitoring Services
Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services, which is seen in Figure 4-7 on
page 169, is often the component of the IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 product suite
that is overlooked. The Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services tools
functionality includes:
Install product support (TEMS)
Add application support (TEMS)
Start and stop the server or agents
Make configuration changes
Manage log files
Chart type Best for Multiple
attributes
Multiple rows Multiple
managed
systems
Time span
Pie chart Displays
proportional
value to the
whole
One slice per
attribute
One pie for
each row
One pie for
each managed
system
Ye s
Bar chart Compares
values among
related
attributes
One bar per
attribute;
stacking bars
show one
segment per
attribute
No No Yes
Plot chart Displays
trends over a
period of time
for related
attributes
One line per
attribute; one
data point for
each data
sampling
Ye s Ye s Ye s
Circular gauge Shows
frequently
changing
elements
One gauge per
attribute
No No No
Linear gauge Displays
cumulative
values
One gauge per
attribute
No No No
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You can launch the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services application by
exporting your display, ensuring that you have an X Windows Server, such as
Hummingbird’s Exceed, running, and entering the command
/opt/IBM/ITM/bin/CandleManage or $CANDLEHOME/bin/CandleManage on any of
the machines that have agents or server components installed. Refer to
Figure 4-7.
Figure 4-7 Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services
4.2.4 Historical data collection
The ability to collect and store historical data allows us to examine the
performance of the monitored components over a period of time and to provide a
sound basis for forecasting growth and capacity planning, as well as allowing us
to manage our virtualized components within the environment to maximize
efficiencies.
How it works
If historical data has been configured, it is collected by either the monitoring
agent or the TEMS in the short term. The data is stored in tables, with one table
per attribute that is collected. If the Tivoli data warehousing facility has been set
up, the collection goes into either an Open Database Connectivity (ODBC) or
Java Database Connectivity (JDBC) database for long-term storage.
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If historical data has been enabled for the attributes for a view, there is a time
span icon on the toolbar. To view the historical data instead of the real-time feed
in the workspace view, you use the tool to specify the period and duration for the
data that you want to display. When the query is run, data less than 24 hours old
is extracted from the sourced binary files, while the data older than 24 hours is
taken from the data warehouse.
The History Collection Configuration window in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal
enables you turn the collection on or off and to configure how often and where
the historical data is stored.
Configuring data collection and warehousing
Take the following steps to configure historical data collection:
1. Click the History Configuration icon from the Edit menu in the TEPS to
open the History Collection Configuration window that is shown in Figure 4-8.
Figure 4-8 History Collection Configuration window
Note: Data collection cannot be started unless you have configured it.
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2. Select the agent type for which you want to collect data from the Select a
product drop-down list.
The attribute groups for which you can collect historical data are displayed in
the Select Attribute Groups list box. Note that when you select a product
type, you are configuring collection for all monitoring agents of that type that
report to the selected monitoring server. If your monitored environment is
large scale with many hundreds of agents of a type, there might be a delay
when you select the product.
3. Select one or more attribute groups. You can also click Show Default
Groups to automatically select the attribute groups that have predefined
historical workspaces.
If you have configurations that you want to populate to several attribute
groups, click the attribute group that has the configurations that you want to
see reflected in the Configuration Controls area, then highlight the other
attribute groups (Ctrl+click to select multiples, or Shift+click to select all
groups from the first one selected up to this point) to configure and click
Configure Group. All the selected attribute groups will reflect the same
configurations. If collection has been started for any of the attribute groups
that you have selected, stop the collection before attempting to change the
configurations.
4. Specify the following collection options:
– Collection Interval
Specify the frequency of data sample transmission to the history file. The
options are: every 1, 5, 15, or 30 minutes, every hour, or every day. The
default interval is 15 minutes. The shorter the interval, the faster and larger
the history file grows at the collection location. This history file can
overload the database, Warehouse Proxy agent, and Summarization and
Pruning agent. For example, if you set a 1 minute collection interval for
process data, expect the summarization and pruning for that attribute
group to take a long time. Only enable such a short interval for an attribute
group that is critical in your work and then preferably only for a short
period of time.
Note that selecting too short of an interval can quickly fill file systems. We
recommend that you monitor your data collection rates following any
changes to the collection settings.
– Collection Location
Specify where the historical data files will reside: at the Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Agent (TEMA) or the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
(TEMS). The default location is the monitoring agent, which minimizes the
performance impact on the monitoring server from the management of
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historical data; however, the TEMS might be a better choice for certain
environments.
– Warehouse Interval
Specify whether the collected data is warehoused and how often. The
options are 15 minutes, 30 minutes, 1 hour, 12 hours, 1 day, or Off. If you
choose to warehouse historical data, the scheduling options for
Summarization and Pruning are enabled. A more frequent warehousing
interval enables quicker availability of warehoused data for retrieval.
Shorter intervals cause additional processing to check for and transmit the
newly collected data. And there are more frequent elevated levels of
transmission activity, but for shorter durations.
The collection options for an attribute group apply on all monitoring
servers on which collection for those attributes is currently enabled. For
certain sets of attribute groups, the configuration is hard-coded by the
product. These attribute groups will display a (fixed) in the Collection and
Warehouse Interval cells of the Select Attribute Groups table.
5. If warehousing is enabled, specify the time periods for which data in the
warehouse is summarized.
6. If summarization is scheduled, specify the duration to keep the summarized
data for each time period.
7. If pruning is scheduled, specify how long to keep the pruned data for each
time period.
8. Click Configure Groups to apply the configuration selections to the attribute
group or groups. If you have currently configured controls for this group (and
the controls are running), click Stop Collection first. Apply your new settings,
and click Start Collection.
4.2.5 Understanding situation events
Situations notify you when an event occurs on a monitored system. The IBM
Tivoli Monitoring product provides a set of predefined situations for your
immediate use to expedite the time frame in which you can have your
environment monitored. You can view and edit these situations and create other
customized situations in the Situation Editor to suit your specific environment.
Note: Your user ID must have permissions sufficient to edit workspaces in the
Tivoli Enterprise Portal in order for you to be able to configure, start, or stop
the historical data collection.
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The Situation Editor window is divided into two frames. The left frame contains
the Situation tree, which shows the situations associated with the Navigator item
from which the Situation Editor was opened as shown in Figure 4-9, or the
situations for all installed monitoring products if you opened the editor from the
toolbar (the situations show in the left frame of Figure 4-9).
Figure 4-9 Situation Editor
Situation formula
Situation formulas are one or more expressions of which options are given when
you click the Formula button in the Situation Editor window. For example, when a
situation checks for free disk space below 10%, it uses the group and item
attributes that we see in Figure 4-10 on page 174.
You can also create more elaborate situations that are based on multiple
conditions being met before an event is triggered.
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Figure 4-10 Attributes of a situation formula
Situation event indicators
When a situation triggers an event on a managed system, it also has a state
setting, which determines the light and color displayed in the
Navigator window
on the item for which the situation threshold has been reached. The list of states
running from highest to lowest severity can be seen in Figure 4-11.
Figure 4-11 Situation event indicators (states)
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4.2.6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring command line
There are a few major commands in IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2 that you can use
to modify, stop, start, and reconfigure the server or agents. The major commands
are:
tacmd Tivoli Agent Command
itmcmd IBM Tivoli Monitoring command
cinfo This command returns a menu to query information, such
as installed and running agents
For further information about these commands, refer to IBM Tivoli Monitoring
User’s Guide, Version 6.2.0, SC32-9409, and IBM Tivoli Monitoring
Administrator’s Guide, Version 6.2.0, SC32-9408. This section focuses on
providing the essential information about these commands.
Common commands
Basic tacmd options are:
help
Prints the full help text for the specified command or summary help text for all
commands if no command is specified.
login
Authenticates a user with a server and creates a security token that is used by
subsequent tacmd commands.
logout
Invalidates the security token created by the tacmd login command.
refreshTECinfo
Triggers the Event Forwarder to reprocess any updated event destinations,
Event Integration Base (EIF) configurations, and custom event mapping files
without recycling the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.
Installation commands
The tacmd installation commands are:
createNode
Creates a node by installing an OS agent into a new directory on the local
machine and starting that OS agent.
viewNode
Displays the details of a node, including the components that are installed on
it.
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Depot commands
The depot tacmd commands are:
viewDepot
Displays the types of agents that can be installed from the (currently logged
in) server’s agent depot or from the named remote server’s depot.
listBundles
Displays the details of one or more deployment bundles that are available for
installation from the specified directory into the local deployment depot.
addBundles
Installs one or more deployment bundles from the specified directory into the
local deployment depot. This command must be executed locally on a Tivoli
Enterprise Monitoring Server containing a depot.
removeBundles
Removes one or more deployment bundles from the local deployment depot.
This command must be executed locally on a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server containing a depot.
Agent commands
The agent tacmd commands are:
startAgent
The startAgent command:
– Starts the specific agents or the agents for the specific managed systems
if they are not already running.
– OS agents (nodes) can be started on the local system only.
– The agent is marked online in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client.
stopAgent
The stopAgent command:
– Stops the specific agents or the agents for the specific managed systems
if they are running.
– OS agents (nodes) can be stopped on the local system only.
– The agent is marked offline in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal client within the
next heartbeat interval.
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restartAgent
The restartAgent command:
– Starts or restarts the specific agents or the agents for the specific
managed systems.
– OS agents (nodes) can be restarted on the local system only.
– If the agent is already started, it is stopped before being restarted.
viewAgent
The viewAgent command:
– Displays the details of the specific agent or the agent for a specific
managed system.
– Details include the agent version, agent status (running or not), and all of
the configuration data for the agent.
updateAgent
Enables an agent update to a specified node.
System commands
The tacmd system commands are:
describeSystemType
Displays the configuration options that are required for a specific managed
system type.
addSystem
The addSystem command:
– Enables a user to add managed systems to the monitoring system.
– Deploys an agent and other needed components if they are not already
installed on the node.
configureSystem
The configureSystem command:
– Enables the user to change the configuration options of an existing
managed system.
– The user also has the option to restart the managed system’s monitoring
agent in order for the new configuration parameters to take effect.
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listSystems
The listSystems command:
– Displays a list of known managed systems.
– The results can optionally be filtered to display only those results on a
specific node, only those results for given product types, or both.
Server command
The server tacmd command is configurePortalServer. The
configurePortalServer command:
Adds, configures, or removes a portal server data source from the portal
server configuration.
This command must be executed locally to the portal server.
This command uses NAME=VALUE options.
Situation commands
The situation tacmd commands are:
createSit
Creates a new situation, based on an existing situation.
editSit
The editSit command:
– Edits an on-server or exported situation definition.
–If a –force parameter is specified, it disables the message that asks if
you are sure that you want to edit the situation.
deleteSit
The deleteSit command:
– Deletes a situation from the server.
–If a –force parameter is specified, it disables the message that asks if
you are sure that you want to delete the situation.
listSit
Lists the defined situations, optionally filtering for a specific managed system
or for a specific managed system type.
viewSit
Allows the configuration of a situation to be displayed or saved in an export
file.
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Event destination definition commands
The event destination definition tacmd commands are:
createEventDest
Creates a new event destination definition on the server.
deleteEventDest
Deletes an event destination server definition from the server.
editEventDest
Modifies an existing event destination server definition on the server.
listEventDest
Displays the server ID, name, and type for every event destination definition
on the server.
viewEventDest
Displays all properties for the specified event destination definition on the
server.
Import and export commands
The import and export tacmd commands are:
bulkExportPcy
Exports all the available policies from the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.
bulkExportSit
Exports all the available situations from the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server.
bulkImportPcy
Imports all the available policy objects to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server from BULK_OBJECT_PATH.
bulkImportSit
Imports all the available objects to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server
from BULK_OBJECT_PATH.
Managed systems list commands
The managed system list tacmd commands are:
createsystemlist
Creates a new managed system list.
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deletesystemlist
Deletes a managed system list.
editsystemlist
Adds or deletes managed systems to or from an existing managed system list
on the server.
listsystemlist
Lists the available managed system lists.
viewsystemlist
Lists the configuration of a managed system list to be displayed or saved in
an export file.
Workspace commands
The workspace tacmd commands are:
exportworkspaces
Exports one or more portal server workspaces to a file.
importworkspaces
Imports the workspaces contained in a file into the portal server.
listworkspaces
Lists all of the portal workspaces on the server.
The itmcmd command
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring command or itmcmd has the following format:
itmcmd command [option [operand ...]] ...
The itmcmd commands are:
itmcmd agent
The itmcmd agent command:
– Starts and stops most agents.
– You can start or stop one agent, all agents, or multiple agents.
– You can also start the portal server and portal desktop client using this
command.
– You must run the itmcmd agent command on the architecture for which
the agent is installed.
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itmcmd audit
Manages log files from the command line. The default logs are in
/opt/IBM/ITM/logs.
itmcmd config
The itmcmd config command:
– Configures or reconfigures the following components:
• The IP port that the hub monitoring server uses to listen for requests
• The hosts that can run a product
• The location of the hub monitoring server in the network
• The monitoring server to which an agent connects
• Whether a monitoring server is a hub or a remote server
– You can only configure one product at a time. If you reconfigure a
monitoring server, you must stop and restart that monitoring server before
the changes take effect.
itmcmd dbagent
Starts the IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Sybase and IBM Tivoli Monitoring for
Oracle monitoring agents.
itmcmd dbconfig
Configures the execution environment for a distributed database agent.
itmcmd execute
The itmcmd execute command:
– Runs a script or command when its execution requires the same
environment settings as a particular IBM Tivoli product. The itmcmd
execute command runs this script or command by building the necessary
environment settings for the intended script or command and then
combining them into a temporary shell script before running it.
– You must run the itmcmd execute command. Make sure that you are in the
correct directory: cd $CANDLEHOME/bin, where $CANDLEHOME is the location
where you installed your IBM Tivoli software, generally /opt/IBM/ITM.
itmcmd history
Manages the roll-off of history data into delimited text files.
itmcmd manage
Starts Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services on a UNIX or Linux
computer. You can start, stop, and configure monitoring components in
Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services.
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itmcmd server
Starts and stops monitoring servers that are defined in directories under the
install_dir/tables subdirectory. You must run the itmcmd server
command from the host computer.
itmcmd support
The itmcmd support command:
– Adds agent-specific information to the monitoring server.
– Whenever you add a new monitoring agent type to your monitoring
environment, run the itmcmd support command again on the monitoring
server to add the new agent information to the monitoring server.
4.2.7 The cinfo command
An administrator can utilize the cinfo commands to complete any of the
following tasks:
An inventory of installed IBM Tivoli products
The configuration settings for products
The installed CD versions in the current $candlehome directory
The configuration settings for products in the context of the actual variables
that are used by the installation program
A list of running IBM Tivoli processes (such as agents or monitoring server)
A validated list of running IBM Tivoli processes, after first performing an
update on the tracking database to remove stale PIDs (processes logged as
ps but not found when attempting to verify using the ps command)
This command can be menu-driven (run with no flags) or controlled by passing
arguments as shown in Example 4-1 on page 183.
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Example 4-1 The cinfo command
cinfo [-h candle_directory] [-c product] [-i] [-r] [-s product] [-R]
[-v]
-c <product> Displays configuration prompts and values
-i Displays an inventory of installed products
-r Shows running processes
-s <product> Displays configuration parameters and settings
-R Shows running processes, after updating a tracking database
-v Shows the installed CD versions in this CandleHome
-p <product> Shows associated platform codes for the specified
product
-d Dumps an inventory of installed products
For example, if you run cinfo -p ms, you get information about the Tivoli
Enterprise Monitoring Server (TEMS) as shown in Example 4-2.
Example 4-2 The cinfo product details for the TEMS
root@nimserver:/opt/IBM/ITM/bin# cinfo -p ms
*********** Wed Mar 18 16:49:41 CDT 2009 ******************
User: root Groups: system bin sys security cron audit lp
Host name : nimserver Installer Lvl:06.20.01.00
CandleHome: /opt/IBM/ITM
***********************************************************
Platform codes:
aix536 : Current machine
aix523 : Product (ms)
tmaitm6/aix523 : CT Framework (ax)
You can view the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring processes that are running by
using cinfo -r as shown in Example 4-3 on page 184.
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Example 4-3 Running Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring processes
root@nimserver:/opt/IBM/ITM/bin# cinfo -r
*********** Wed Mar 18 16:57:58 CDT 2009 ******************
User: root Groups: system bin sys security cron audit lp
Host name : nimserver Installer Lvl:06.20.01.00
CandleHome: /opt/IBM/ITM
***********************************************************
Host Prod PID Owner Start ID ..Status
aix ph 512006 itm1 Mar None ...running
aix pk 430296 None
aix px 237714 None
4.2.8 The SetPerm command
You can make use the SetPerm command to set file permissions to ensure that
the permissions are set to those permissions that appropriate for an applications
user. This command can only be run as the root user.
The correct method and usage of the SetPerm command was covered in
“Changing the file permissions” on page 92.
4.2.9 Best practices
The best practices for monitoring are:
Planning
Have the monitoring requirement for the entire environment mapped out from
what agents will be deployed where and at what level the alert threshold
needs to be set, although this setting might require tuning over time, to the
basics of application file system creation. Plan the creation of applications
users and groups and the file permissions and ownership of the application
files.
What sort of diagnostic data do you collect in the environment, or do you
simply monitor systems, applications, the health, and the operations of
components within the environment? How is any ongoing maintenance to be
performed? Does the environment have a centralized point for the
management of systems and maintenance?
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Installation and Configuration
The AIX Enterprise Edition Launchpad has simplified the installation of IBM
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring in a System p environment as discussed in 3.3,
“Installing and configuring IBM Tivoli Monitoring V6.2” on page 50. Following
this method helps to greatly reduce the amount of time and complexity around
actually getting the tool operational.
After the environment is being actively monitored, further customization of
thresholds for alerts and event integration might be required.
4.3 Operating TADDM
This section describes how to operate a TADDM server. With a simple
configuration of the scope and the access list, TADDM discovers a lot of
components from target servers. It can provide the physical topology of the target
servers as well as the software topology. However, customization is necessary if
you want to extend the functionality, such as creating Business Applications and
Business Services. There are additional features in TADDM, including
versioning, showing change history, and reporting. We describe:
4.3.1, “Starting and stopping the TADDM server” on page 185
4.3.2, “Discover components” on page 186
4.3.3, “Customizing TADDM” on page 212
4.3.4, “Analytics and reporting” on page 228
4.3.5, “Performance considerations” on page 236
4.3.1 Starting and stopping the TADDM server
When you need to stop and start the TADDM server manually for any reason, go
to the $TADDM_installed_directory/dist/bin directory and run ./control stop
and ./control start as a TADDM admin user as shown in Example 4-4 on
page 186.
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Example 4-4 Start or stop TADDM server as a TADDM admin user
$ id
uid=205(cmdbadm) gid=3(sys) groups=1(staff)
$ cd /opt/IBM/cmdb/dist/bin
$ ./control stop
$ ./control start
4.3.2 Discover components
TADDM discovers and collects configuration information for the entire application
infrastructure, identifying deployed software components, physical servers,
network devices, virtual LAN, and host data used in a runtime environment.
Discovery is performed using sensors that are currently built and deployed as
part of the TADDM product:
1. To get into the product console, bring up your browser and enter a URL with
the host name of the TADDM server and port number 9430 as shown in
Figure 4-12 on page 187, for example, http://taddm10:9430.
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3. Select Open unless you want to save the file. If you save the file, it will be
saved on your workstation for future use. If you click Open or click the
previously saved file, it will show you the login panel as shown in Figure 4-14.
Figure 4-14 Login panel
The default user is administrator and the password is collation.
4. Enter the Username and Password (Figure 4-14). Click Login and the Tivoli
Application Dependency Discovery Manager panel appears.
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Scope
A discovery scope identifies the devices, computer systems, and other
components in your infrastructure that you want the server to access. You
specify scopes using IP addresses, ranges of IP addresses, or subnets to define
the boundary of the networks that can be accessed during discovery. A scope
can be as small as a single IP address or as large as a range of IP addresses or
a Class C network. You can also exclude specific devices from the scope.
Before running discovery, you need to configure a discovery scope:
1. On the left pane, click the Discovery tab Scope. The Scope pane is
displayed.
2. To define a new discovery scope set, click Add Set. The Scope Set Name
window is displayed as shown in Figure 4-15.
Figure 4-15 Scope Set Name
3. In the Name field, type the name for the new scope set.
4. Click OK. The new scope set appears in the Scope Sets list.
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5. To add contents to the scope set, select the scope set that you have just
created and click Add. The Add Scope window is displayed as shown in
Figure 4-16.
Figure 4-16 Adding scope
To add the settings for the scope, complete one of the following steps:
– Select Subnet from the IP Type list and type the IP address of the subnet
in the IP Address field.
– Select Range from the IP Type list and type the starting IP address and
the ending IP address in the IP Addresses field.
– Select Host from the IP Type list and type the IP address of the host in the
IP Address field or type the host name in the Hostname field.
To exclude devices from your scope, click Add Exclusion and complete one of
the following steps:
– From the IP Type list, select Subnet and type the IP address of the subnet
in the IP Address field.
– From the IP Type list, select Range and type the starting IP address and
the ending IP address in the IP Address field.
To save the scope, click OK. The new scope appears in the list.
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Access List
The Access List is a collection of all user names, passwords, and Simple Network
Management Protocol (SNMP) community strings that the server uses when
accessing entities, which are stored as configuration items in the database, in
your infrastructure. You have to set up this list for the configuration items that you
want to discover.
To add a new Access List entry, complete the following steps from the product
console:
1. On the left, click the Discovery tab Access List. The Access List pane is
displayed.
2. To add a new computer system into the Access List, click Add. The Access
Details panel is displayed as shown in Figure 4-17.
Figure 4-17 Adding a computer system
3. From the Component Type list, select the component type that you want to
discover.
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4. For all component types other than Network Element (SNMP), complete the
following steps:
– In the Name field, type the name of the Access List entry.
– In the User name field, type the user name to log in to the component that
you want to discover. Notice that we already added cmdbadm user in all the
target servers for discovery before adding computer systems here.
– In the Password field, type the password to log in to the component that
you want to discover.
– In the Confirm Password field, retype the password for confirmation.
Additional steps might be required based on the component type that you
have selected. We selected password as an authentication type for computer
systems type.
Note: TADDM attempts to use the credentials in the order that they appear in
the access list. To speed up discovery, make sure that you have the
credentials in the order that makes the most sense for your environment.
Order the credentials from the most general to the most specific. Use the list
order in combination with limiting scope. If a credential only applies to a
particular scope set, be sure to limit its use to that scope set.
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6. We took the same steps to add two HMCs and four more servers. Figure 4-19
shows the list of computer systems and the database that we have created.
Figure 4-19 The list of computer systems and the database
Discovery profile
A discovery profile is a set of rules that controls how discoveries run. Using
discovery profiles, you can control what TADDM discovers. For example, you
can configure individual discovery sensors, manage various configurations for
the same sensor, select the appropriate sensor based on a set of criteria, and
control sets of different sensor configurations to be applied on a single discovery
run.
By default, there are three levels of discovery profiles, which are described in
Table 4-2 on page 195.
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Table 4-2 Discovery profiles by default in TADDM
In order to run discovery:
1. Click the Discovery tab Overview, and click Run Discovery.
2. Check ITSO scope under Scopes, and select Level 3 Discovery from the
Profile list box. Click OK as shown in Figure 4-20 on page 196.
Level Type of
discovery
What is discovered
Level 1 Credential-less Basic information about active computer systems: host
name, fully qualified domain name (FQDN), OS release
level, IP address, and open ports. Network operating
systems are also discovered.
Level 2 OS credentials
only
Detailed information about all of the operating systems.
Level 3 Full credential Entire application infrastructure: deployed software
components, physical servers, network devices, virtual
LANs, and hosts.
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Figure 4-20 Running discovery
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3. While running discovery, click Discovery Log to see Discovery Log Details
as shown in Figure 4-21.
Figure 4-21 Discovery Log Details
When the discovery finishes, a line of information appears in red on the
bottom of the window (Figure 4-22 on page 198): “Changes have occurred.
Reload the view.”
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Now, you are ready to see the components that TADDM has just discovered
or the
topology of the components. In order to search the components, click
Discovered Components in the left pane as shown in Figure 4-23.
Figure 4-23 List search
5. Click List/Search and move down to select component.
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7. We have five logical partitions on AIX as shown in Figure 4-25. Note that if
you have a logical partition and you do not see the LPAR symbol to the left of
the component name, verify with the HMC that the LPAR is connected and
has been added properly.
Figure 4-25 Show Details
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8. Right-click one of the servers, and then click Show Details.
You see the details of the server as shown in Figure 4-26. The details include
general information about the hardware, OS, storage, file systems, IP,
installed filesets, patch level, and the contents of major configuration files.
Figure 4-26 Details of a computer system
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You can zoom in or out on the Topology window Application Infrastructure by
sliding the zoom indicator (see the cursor in Figure 4-30). Or, just click the
zoom slider and use the arrow keys for sizing the window.
Figure 4-30 Zooming in on topology
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Another view provided in the Topology tab is the Physical Infrastructure. Click
Physical Infrastructure to see how the components are physically
associated.
12.Choose a network and right-click Show Details as shown in Figure 4-31.
Even though the IP addresses of our servers are in the network of 9.12.5.x,
they are shown in the network of 9.12.4.0, because our subnet mask is
255.255.252.0.
Figure 4-31 Physical Infrastructure
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13.The servers and HMCs in the network are displayed. Right-click one of the
servers to show details as shown in Figure 4-32.
Figure 4-32 Showing the details of a server
Schedule discovery
You can initiate TADDM discoveries on demand based on a schedule.
Scheduling is a methodical way to keep the TADDM database up-to-date. You
can schedule discoveries to start during periods of low activity, such as on
weekends, during times when batch jobs are likely to run, such as late at night, or
during periods of high activity, such as mid-morning or mid-afternoon. You can
schedule discoveries before and after normal maintenance windows, enabling
you to quickly check what changes were made during that interval.
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To create a new discovery schedule, complete the following steps:
1. On the Discovery tab, click Schedule.
2. Select Add to define a new discovery schedule. The Discovery Schedule
window opens as shown in Figure 4-33. The date and time that are shown in
the window reflect the date and time on the TADDM server.
Figure 4-33 Schedule discovery
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History of discovery
If you want to see the previous discoveries, click History in the Discovery tab
shown in Figure 4-35.
Figure 4-35 History of discovery
Versions
Versions are snapshots of the current infrastructure. Versions are read-only
views of the entire topology. Analytic reports support comparisons between
versions.
To create a new version, click Versions in the Discovery tab, and select Create.
Enter a version name, and click OK as shown in Figure 4-36 on page 212.
Note: We suggest that you have naming rules for version names to avoid
possible confusion later. For example, you can use the date as part of the
version name. A version ID is generated in TADDM whenever a new version is
created. The current version has an ID value of 0.
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Figure 4-36 Creating a version
4.3.3 Customizing TADDM
In this section, we describe how to add a custom server and a Business
Application.
Custom server
You can create custom servers to discover and categorize servers that are not,
by default, supported by TADDM. Your infrastructure might contain software
applications and server types, such as custom Java servers, that are not
automatically categorized by TADDM. Any server process with a TCP listening
port that is not recognized is categorized into an Unknown Server category.
Unknown servers are not displayed in the Topology tab and cannot take
advantage of most of the functions. You do, however, receive basic information,
such as the name and the runtime data of the unknown server.
You can define a custom server to create a template that sets up the
membership rules for the custom server. During a discovery, any unknown
server is automatically categorized as a custom server of this type if the runtime
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information matches the criteria that you have defined in the template. Custom
servers are displayed in the topology, and you can view details about them.
Although these details are not as complete as the details that are provided for
supported servers, defining custom servers allows all of the components in your
infrastructure to participate in the topology view and comparisons. You can
manage custom servers by selecting the Discovery tab Custom Servers:
1. Before adding a server, run a basic discovery to check for unknown servers.
You can run a report on unknown servers to help you identify patterns to use
in the custom server template.
2. To identify patterns in unknown servers, click the Analytics tab Inventory,
and the Inventory pane is displayed in the workspace. Then, select Unknown
Servers, and click Run Report as shown in Figure 4-37.
Figure 4-37 Collecting unknown servers
You can identify a pattern in the configuration of the unknown server, such as
the program name, arguments, environment, and port. Use this pattern to
create the identifying criteria for the custom server template.
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The Custom Server Details panel General Info & Criteria tab is displayed
(Figure 4-39). In the Name field, type the name of the custom server. In this
example, we used Sendmail - email server.
4. To enable the custom server definition, select Enabled. And then, we
changed the icon for sendmail. Define the criteria for the custom server. If you
are creating a custom server from an unknown server, you will see at least
one criterion that is set up. Figure 4-39 shows our example.
Figure 4-39 Creating a custom server
5. To add configuration files, click the Config Files tab. The Config Files page is
displayed. On the Config Files page, click Add. The Search Path for Capture
File window (Figure 4-40 on page 216) is displayed. From the Search Path
list, provide a directory path for the configuration file.
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To capture the contents of the configuration file, click Capture file contents,
and optionally, specify the maximum number of bytes of the captured
configuration file. To recursively explore through the directory structure to
search for the specified file, click Recurse Directory Content.
To save the settings for your custom server, click OK. Refer to Figure 4-40.
Figure 4-40 Selecting config files
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6. To reposition entries in the Custom Servers pane, select sendmail and move
it up to your desired position as shown in Figure 4-41. Note that you can also
choose to enable or disable discovery for specific applications in the Custom
Server pane. Click Save to save the changes to be applied.
Figure 4-41 Repositioning a custom server
Now, we can run a new discovery and check our new custom
server that we have just created. Run discovery and check the
results by clicking the Topology tab Application
Infrastructure as shown in Figure 4-42 on page 218. The
applications with port number 25 are sendmails. The sendmail
applications are marked with the graphic that is shown here to
the left.
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Figure 4-42 Sendmail custom server discovered
If you want to see more details, right-click the discovered component and click
Show Details. You can see all of the information related to the component,
including the configuration file.
Business Applications and Business Services
A Business Application is the way to group the various kinds of IT resources into
a logical group, and this logical group acts together as one unit to provide a type
of service. You can treat Business Applications as units for discovery and
analytics.
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The top level in the component hierarchy of TADDM is the
Business Service.
Business Services can contain any number of the lower level resources, from
Business Applications to modules in a WebSphere server or specific
configuration files on systems. The purpose of the Business Service is to
consolidate multiple lower level objects and their relationships in order to perform
reporting and analysis, considering all related resources.
1. To create Business Applications, click Edit Create Business Application.
Enter a name (we entered ITM agent) and description (we entered IBM
Tivoli Monitoring) as shown in Figure 4-43.
Figure 4-43 Creating a Business Application
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2. Click Next to select the components. We selected a DB2 instance and one
Java server to show you an example of a Business Application as shown in
Figure 4-44. You can choose applications that are appropriate for your
environment.
When you manually add a component to a Business Application, you need to
choose a functional group. The
functional group defines what components
are compared when a comparison is performed between two Business
Applications. We selected the default functional group in this example.
Figure 4-44 Assigning components for the Business Application
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In the next window, which is shown in Figure 4-45, you can provide
administrative information. We skipped this page, because it is optional.
Figure 4-45 Administrative information
3. In the same manner, we created the second Business Application, which is
named TADDM, as shown in Figure 4-46.
Figure 4-46 Creating a second Business Application
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7. Enter a Business Service Name and Description as shown in Figure 4-50.
Click Next.
Figure 4-50 Creating Business Service Wizard
8. In the next window, you can add Business Applications into the Business
Service. We selected ITM agent and TADDM as shown in Figure 4-51. Click
Next.
Figure 4-51 Assigning Business Applications to the Business Service
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9. Notice that the name of Tivoli Service is added in the Topology tab as a
Business Service. Click Tivoli Service, and you will see the Business
Applications that comprise this service in the right pane as shown in
Figure 4-52.
Figure 4-52 Showing the Business Service
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11.In the next window, the physical topology appears as shown in Figure 4-54.
Figure 4-54 Showing the physical topology
4.3.4 Analytics and reporting
You can generate reports and perform analytics to monitor and troubleshoot
configuration changes in your environment. You can produce a consolidated
summary of changes for a specific Business Application or throughout your
entire environment. You can also use the product console to generate an
inventory of components that are in your organization.
Change history
If you want to check whether any changes have been made on your applications
or servers in a certain period of time, there is a Change History menu under the
Analytics tab menu as shown in Figure 4-55 on page 229.
We intentionally add a host, 100.100.100.1 test1 (see the last line), into the
/etc/hosts file, so that the change can be discovered in TADDM.
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Example 4-5 Editing /etc/hosts
taddm10:/ ] vi /etc/hosts
9.12.5.38 vio1_l10
9.12.5.32 nimserver nimserver.itso.ibm.com
9.12.5.118 wpar01 wpar01.itso.ibm.com
9.12.5.119 wpar02 wpar02.itso.ibm.com
9.12.5.36 hmc1 hmc1.itso.ibm.com
9.12.5.33 hmc2 hmc2.itso.ibm.com
100.100.100.1 test1
1. Go to the Discovery tab menu and click Run Discover. When the discovery
finishes, come back to the Change History menu and click Run Report. We
set Date Range to 1 hour as shown in Figure 4-55.
Figure 4-55 Change History
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The report shows all the changes that have been made on the server for the
past one hour, and you can see the /etc/hosts file in the list as shown in
Figure 4-56.
Figure 4-56 Results of Change History
However, note that TADDM does not collect all the files in a server for
Change History by default. You might need to check the list in a component
and add additional files to be collected.
The next two windows show how to add those files into a computer system.
2. Go to the Discovery tab, and then click Computer Systems.
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4. In the next window as shown in Figure 4-58, click the Config Files tab and
add your desired files into the list.
Figure 4-58 Adding Config Files
Inventory reporting
The Inventory report lists components of a specific type with important attributes,
for example, it lists all of the AIX Computer systems and their installed OSs and
all of the database servers and their versions. It is a comprehensive
infrastructure asset report. After you run the inventory report, you can save the
data to various formats. If you select multiple types of IT components, after you
select the target and file name, multiple files are created.
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In order to create a inventory report:
1. Click the Analytics tab Inventory, and then select the component type for
which you want to create a report as shown in Figure 4-59. We selected DB2
and AIX in this example. Click Run Report to create reports.
Figure 4-59 Selecting component type for Inventory report
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4. Figure 4-62 shows the sample output of our inventory reports.
Figure 4-62 Sample output of inventory report
If you want to produce reports with Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools
(BIRT), refer to Chapter 7, “Reporting Scenarios,” in Deployment Guide Series:
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1, SG24-7616, for
more details.
4.3.5 Performance considerations
Deploying TADDM in a production environment is an iterative process that
involves initial discovery, the refinement of access lists, the refinement of
scopes, the refinement of custom servers, the deployment of application
descriptors, and rediscovery.
During this process, it might be necessary to review and refine the various
settings that impact performance. Although the default settings generally provide
adequate performance immediately, you can substantially increase TADDM
performance by tailoring the configuration of TADDM to the environment that it
manages.
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There are several aspects regarding performance with TADDM, including:
Discovery tuning
Storage tuning
Java Virtual Machine tuning
Database tuning
Operating system tuning
If you need further information for performance tuning, refer to Workload Partition
Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1, SG24-7656.
4.4 Operating IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager
This section describes the basics of operating Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager:
“IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager collectors” on page 237
“Collecting AIX and VIOS accounting data” on page 241
“Loading AIX accounting data into the database” on page 242
“Installing Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)” on page 250
“Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager” on page 266
4.4.1 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager collectors
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager ships with three major processing
scripts as shown in Table 4-3.
Table 4-3 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager processing scripts
Script name Function
/opt/ibm/tivoli/ituam/collectors/Unix/script
s/aacct/ituam_format_aacct
Generates usage logs from data files in
the history directory
/opt/ibm/tivoli/ituam/collectors/Unix/script
s/aacct/ituam_get_aacct
Retrieves the
Active data file and copies
it to the history directory; you can run this
script multiple times a day if needed
/opt/ibm/tivoli/ituam/collectors/Unix/script
s/aacct/ituam_send_aacct
Sends data files from collector client
system to IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager server
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Each of these scripts uses common variables that are set in the A_config.par
file, which is located in the /opt/ibm/tivoli/ituam/collectors/Unix/data
directory. The ituam_format_aacct and ituam_get_aacct scripts do not require
special variables to be set up, but in order to use the ituam_send_aacct to push
the data to the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager server, you must set
the following variables in the A_config.par file:
CS_METHOD
Method for transferring the data to the IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager server. This method can be FTP, secure copy protocol (scp), or
Secure File Transfer Protocol (SFTP).
CS_PLATFORM
Name of IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager server.
CS_USER
Name of user on IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager server for
transfer. We recommend that you set up a specific user for the transfer and
that you do
not use the root user.
CS_KEY
Password for the user to perform the transfer. If you use scp, you can set up
keys so that you are not required to have the password in the file in clear text.
CS_COLL_PATH
Path on the server for the files to be transferred.
CS_PROC_PATH
Path for processing the data files.
The two processing scripts for gathering the accounting data and formatting the
accounting data can be combined into one process. We have included a sample
script that runs both of these jobs and that can be used in crontab as a timed
process. Example 4-6 shows this script.
Example 4-6 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager processing script:
tuam-getdata.sh
#!/usr/bin/ksh
ITUAMHOME=/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/scripts/aacct
ITUAMGET=${ITUAMHOME}/ituam_get_aacct
ITUAMFORMAT=${ITUAMHOME}/ituam_format_aacct
#get current date
START=$(date +%Y%m%d)
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#call ITUAMGET
${ITUAMGET}
#wait for 2 minutes
sleep 120
#check if date has changed
if [ ${START} -eq $(date +%Y%m%d) ]; then
echo same date - no processing needed
else
#date changed, run format script for the previous day
${ITUAMFORMAT} ${START}
fi
There are several cronjobs that you add that have been predefined to run the
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager processing jobs on the IBM Tivoli
Usage and Accounting Manager server. Example 4-7 lists these jobs.
Example 4-7 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager cron jobs
# TUAM UNIX/Linux Data Collector scripts
#
5 1 * * * (/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/Unix/etc/ituam_uc_nightly 1>
/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/Unix/log/ituam_uc_nightly.log 2>&1)
3,13,23,33,43,53 * * * * /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/Unix/etc/check_pacct
5 3 * * *
(/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/Unix/scripts/enterprise/CS_nightly_consolidat
ion 1> /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/Unix/log/CS_nightly_consolidation.log
2>&1)
#45 3 * * * (/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/Unix/scripts/enterprise/CS_send
1> /opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/Unix/log/CS_send.log 2>&1)
Table 4-4 on page 240 describes each of these jobs.
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Table 4-4 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager cron job descriptions
The scheduled job produce log files that contain information about the execution
of each task. The scripts also produce data files that contain accounting and file
system information.
Table 4-5 shows the name of the output log and the data file for each of the
scheduled cron jobs. The output log directory is
/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/log.
Table 4-5 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager cron job log files
Script name Default execution Description
ituam_uc_nightly 01:05 a.m. Collects raw AIX
accounting data and file
system usage.
check_pacct Every 10 minutes Manages pacct file.
CS_nightly_consolidation 03:05 a.m. Consolidates the nightly
accounting and storage
files into the common
source format (CSR) file.
CS_send (optional) 03:45 a.m. Transfers the consolidated
CSR file to the IBM Tivoli
Usage and Accounting
Manager server.
Script name Output log file Output data directory
ituam_uc_nightly ituam_uc_nightly.log ../collectors/unix/accountin
g/<host name>
check_pacct - -
CS_nightly_consolidation CS_nightly_consolidation.l
og
../collectors/unix/CS_input
_source
CS_send(optional) CS_send.log -
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4.4.2 Collecting AIX and VIOS accounting data
After the collectors have been installed on all the systems, you need to set up a
method to gather the data back to the Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
server. The two methods of transferring the accounting data to the IBM Tivoli
Usage and Accounting Manager server are:
Push mode, where the client systems are responsible for copying the data to
the Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager server
Pull mode, where the Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager server is
responsible for copying the data from all the clients
For security reasons, we chose the pull mode for our example. We also chose to
implement the pull method using the scp command.
We have written a sample script for collecting the AIX accounting data from the
nodes, which is shown in Example 4-8.
Example 4-8 Data collection: tuam-getdata.sh
#!/bin/ksh
#This script is supposed to be started just before midnight on the TUAM
server
DATETOGET=$(date +%Y%m%d)
TUAMHOSTS=/usr/local/bin/ituam_hosts
TUAMJOBS=/opt/ibm/tuam/jobfiles
JOBRUNNER=/opt/ibm/tuam/bin/startJobRunner.sh
CLIENTUSER=tuam
CLIENTPATH=/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/CS_input_source
SERVERPATH=/opt/ibm/tuam/logs/collectors
RECORDTYPES=”1 4 6 7 8 11 36 38 39”
# Wait for the clock to roll over and the daily collection scripts
# on the clients to finish
sleep 600
# Get data from all the clients
cat ${TUAMHOSTS}|while read CLIENT
do
echo Getting data from ${CLIENT}
for TYPE in ${RECORDTYPES}
do
if [ ! -d ${SERVERPATH}/AACCT_${TYPE}/${CLIENT} ]
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then
mkdir -p ${SERVERPATH}/AACCT_${TYPE}/${CLIENT}
fi
scp
${CLIENTUSER}@${CLIENT}:${CLIENTPATH}/aacct${TYPE}_${DATETOGET}.t
xt ${SERVERPATH}/AACCT_${TYPE}/${CLIENT}/
done
done
# Load data from all the clients
cat $TUAMHOSTS|while read CLIENT
do
echo Loading data from ${CLIENT}
cat ${TUAMHOSTS}/AIXAA.xml|sed "s/sample/${CLIENT}/g" | sed
"s/\"AIXAA\"/\"AIXAA -${CLIENT}\"/g" > ${TUAMJOBS}/AIXAA-${CLIENT}.xml
chmod 755 ${TUAMJOBS}/AIXAA-${CLIENT}.xml
${JOBRUNNER} ${TUAMJOBS}/AIXAA-${CLIENT}.xml
done
4.4.3 Loading AIX accounting data into the database
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager jobs process the AIX accounting data
after it has been collected and load it into the Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager database.
Note: You will need to modify the AIXAA-${CLIENT}.xml job files that are
created by the script in Example 4-8 to contain the directories for processing
your data that is being transferred. The files can be edited by using the
Integrated Solutions Console (ISC) under Chargeback Maintenance Job
Runner Job Files.
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You can copy the sample job for processing the AIX data and then edit it for your
environment:
1. First, create a new job in the ISC. To create a new job, click Usage and
Accounting Manager Chargeback Maintenance Job Runner Job
Files New. Enter the name of your new job file and click OK. We want to
create a job named AIXAA.xml. Refer to Figure 4-63. After the job is created,
you will see a message stating, “Successfully copied file.” This message
indicates that the file is created and contains a skeleton job file template.
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager provides a sample job to load AIX data
named SampleAIXAA.xml. We will use the contents of the SampleAIXAA.xml to
overwrite the contents of the new AIXAA.xml file that we have created.
Figure 4-63 Creating a new job by using the ISC
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2. From the ISC, click Sample Job Files SampleAIXAA.xml. Highlight the
contents of SampleAIXAA.xml, then right-click to select the contents of the xml
file and click Copy. Figure 4-64 on page 244 shows the SampleAIXAA.xml file.
3. From the ISC, click Usage and Accounting Manager Chargeback
Maintenance Job Runner Job Files. Select AIXAA.xml from the
menu. Replace AIXAA.xml with the contents that you copied from
SampleAIXAA.xml.
Figure 4-64 SampleAIXAA.xml
The AIXAA.xml file is listed in Example 4-9. After moving over the content of the
SampleAIXAA.xml file to the AIXAA.xml file, you need to edit the file to customize
it for your environment.
Example 4-9 AIXAA.xml
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!--
***************************************************************
{COPYRIGHT-TOP}
* Licensed Materials - Property of IBM
* IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
* 5724-O33, 5765-UAV, 5765-UA7, 44E7863
* (c) Copyright IBM Corp. 2004, 2007
*
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* The source code for this program is not published or otherwise
* divested of its trade secrets, irrespective of what has been
* deposited with the U.S. Copyright Office.
****************************************************************
{COPYRIGHT-END}
-->
<Jobs xmlns="http://www.ibm.com/TUAMJobs.xsd">
<Job id="AIXAA"
description="Daily collection"
active="true"
joblogWriteToDB="false"
joblogWriteToTextFile="true"
joblogWriteToXMLFile="true"
joblogShowStepOutput="true"
joblogShowStepParameters="true"
processPriorityClass="Low"
smtpServer="mail.ITUAMCustomerCompany.com"
smtpFrom="ITUAM@ITUAMCustomerCompany.com"
smtpTo="John.ITUAMUser@ITUAMCustomerCompany.com"
stopOnProcessFailure="false">
<Process id="AIXAA"
description="Process for AIXAA data collection"
joblogShowStepOutput="true"
joblogShowStepParameters="true"
active="true">
<Steps stopOnStepFailure="true">
<Step id="Integrator"
type="ConvertToCSR"
programName="integrator"
programType="java"
active="true">
<Integrator>
<Input name="AIXAAInput" active="true">
<Files>
<File
name="/usr/ituam/CS_input_source/aacct1_%LogDate_End%.txt" />
<File
name="/usr/ituam/CS_input_source/aacct4_%LogDate_End%.txt" />
<File
name="/usr/ituam/CS_input_source/aacct6_%LogDate_End%.txt" />
<File
name="/usr/ituam/CS_input_source/aacct7_%LogDate_End%.txt" />
<File
name="/usr/ituam/CS_input_source/aacct8_%LogDate_End%.txt" />
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<File
name="/opt/ibm/tuam/samples/processes/exception.txt" type="exception"
/>
</Files>
</Input>
<Stage name="CreateIdentifierFromIdentifiers" active="true"
trace="false" stopOnStageFailure="true" >
<Identifiers>
<Identifier name="Account_Code">
<FromIdentifiers>
<FromIdentifier name="SYSTEM_ID"
offset="1" length="12"/>
<FromIdentifier name="UserName" offset="1"
length="12"/>
</FromIdentifiers>
</Identifier>
</Identifiers>
<Parameters>
<Parameter keepLength="true"/>
<Parameter modifyIfExists="true"/>
</Parameters>
</Stage>
<Stage name="DropFields" active="true">
<Fields>
<Field name="AAID0101"/>
<Field name="AAID0102"/>
<Field name="AAID0103"/>
<Field name="AAID0403"/>
</Fields>
</Stage>
<Stage name="CSRPlusOutput" active="true">
<Files>
<File
name="/opt/ibm/tuam/samples/processes/AIXAA/server1/%LogDate_End%.txt"
/>
</Files>
</Stage>
</Integrator>
</Step>
<Step id="Scan"
description="Scan AIXAA"
type="Process"
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programName="Scan"
programType="java"
active="true">
<Parameters>
<Parameter retainFileDate="false"/>
<Parameter allowMissingFiles="false"/>
<Parameter allowEmptyFiles="false"/>
<Parameter useStepFiles="false"/>
</Parameters>
</Step>
<Step id="Process"
description="Standard Processing for AIXAA"
type="Process"
programName="Bill"
programType="java"
active="true">
<Bill>
<Parameters>
<Parameter inputFile="CurrentCSR.txt"/>
</Parameters>
</Bill>
</Step>
<Step id="DatabaseLoad"
description="Database Load for AIXAA"
type="Process"
programName="DBLoad"
programType="java"
active="true">
<DBLoad>
<Parameters>
</Parameters>
</DBLoad>
</Step>
<Step id="Cleanup"
description="Cleanup AIXAA"
type="Process"
programName="Cleanup"
programType="java"
active="false">
<Parameters>
<Parameter DaysToRetainFiles="45"/>
<Parameter cleanSubfolders="true"/>
</Parameters>
</Step>
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</Steps>
</Process>
</Job>
</Jobs>
4. Run the AIXAA.xml job by using the Job Runner in either the ISC or from the
command line. In the ISC, click Usage and Accounting Manager
Chargeback Maintenance Job Runner Job Files. Click AIXAA.xml
from the list of jobs and select Run Job from the pull-down menu, which is
shown in Figure 4-65.
Figure 4-65 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Job Runner
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5. When the Job Runner completes, you will be presented with an informational
window similar to Figure 4-66. Job Runner can take a few minutes to
complete, so wait until this message or a completion message appears.
Figure 4-66 IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Job Runner complete
message
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6. Verify that the database has loaded successfully by checking the log files. In
the ISC, click Usage and Accounting Manager Chargeback
Maintenance Log Files. Figure 4-67 shows an example of the log files
from the AIXAA.xml file. Any errors that occur during the processing will
appear in these log files and will be separated into the processing steps. The
error messages all begin with AUC. You can search for and read the messages
on the following Web site:
http://www-01.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/IBMTivoliUsa
geandAccountingManager.html
Figure 4-67 Log files
4.4.4 Installing Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools (BIRT)
BIRT is an open source reporting tool that runs in the Eclipse environment. You
can choose to download and install BIRT on the Windows, AIX, or Linux
platform. BIRT must be run from a graphical user interface (GUI). In our
example, we install BIRT on a Windows workstation. Prior to installing and
configuring BIRT on a Windows workstation, you must copy the files from the
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager server that you need to use with BIRT.
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These files are located in multiple directories on your IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager server. The required files are:
/opt/IBM/db2/V9.1/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar
/opt/IBM/db2/V9.1/java/db2jcc.jar
/opt/ibm/tuam/server/reportsbirt/db2/standard/*.rptdesign
/opt/ibm/tuam/server/reportsbirt/resources/*
You must copy these files and place them into a temporary folder for use later. In
our example, these files were placed in the temp folder:
1. Go to the BIRT Web site at:
http://www.eclipse.org/birt/phoenix/
2. Click Download BIRT 2.3.2 to go to the BIRT download page.
3. On the BIRT 2.3.2 download page, click All-in-One for the BIRT Report
Engine. Install Eclipse by unzipping the file.
Note: If you already have Eclipse installed on your system, you can
download the Runtime and Remote Copy (RCP) Designer portions only.
These parts are also installed by unzipping the files.
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4. Move to the folder that contains the files that you unzipped and look for a
folder named
eclipse. The eclipse.exe executable is in the eclipse folder as
shown in Figure 4-68. Double-click eclipse.exe to start the eclipse
environment.
Figure 4-68 Eclipse folder
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5. The first time that you execute eclipse.exe, you will see a warning message
as shown in Figure 4-69. Click Run to continue, and also clear the check
mark from “Always ask before opening this file.”
Figure 4-69 Eclipse security warning
6. The Eclipse Workspace Launcher will start and prompt you to enter the path
to use for projects as shown in Figure 4-70. Select the path that you will use to
save your BIRT projects and select OK to continue.
Figure 4-70 BIRT Workspace Launcher
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7. BIRT will open up to the main workspace window as shown in Figure
Figure 4-71. You need to create a new project by selecting File New
Project. A pop-up window appears as in Figure 4-71. Expand Business
Intelligence and Reporting Tools, select Report Project, and click Next.
Figure 4-71 New project window
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9. You will be presented with a blank Report Design workspace similar to the
one in Figure 4-73.
Figure 4-73 BIRT main window
Configuring BIRT
In order for BIRT to connect to the DB2 server on the Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager server, we need to configure Java Database Connectivity
(JDBC) drivers and ensure that the data sets are defined with the correct user
name and password. To configure BIRT:
1. From the BIRT main window, click the Data Explorer tab Data Sources.
Right-click DB2, and select Edit from the pull-down menu. The menu in
Figure 4-74 on page 257 appears.
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Figure 4-74 Edit data Source
2. Change the Driver URL to jdbc:db2://yourserver:50000/yourdbname,
change the user name to db2inst1, and change the password to the
password that you set for db2inst1 on your system. Click Manage Drivers.
The Manage JDBC Drivers window appears as in Figure 4-75.
Figure 4-75 Manage JDBC Drivers
3. From this window, you need to add the JDBC drivers to connect to the
database.Click Add and navigate to the Temp folder where you stored the
driver files earlier. Select the db2jcc.jar file and click Open, and repeat for
the db2jcc_license_cu.jar file. When both files appear as in Figure 4-76 on
page 258, click OK to continue.
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Edit SQL statements
The SQL statements that are included in the BIRT reporting methods are written
using dbadmin as a user ID. We need to edit the statements and put in the correct
user ID of db2inst1 for the statements to work correctly with the DB2
environment. We also need to ensure that the Data Source type for all the data
sets is set to DB2. To edit the data sets in BIRT:
1. From the main window in the Data Explorer Tab, click Data Sets. Right-click
the name of the Data Set (for example, DB2_GET_CLIENT), and select EDIT
from the drop-down menu.
2. The window in Figure 4-78 appears.
3. Change the Data Set type to DB2.
Figure 4-78 Edit Data Set
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4. Next, click the Query line to edit the Data Set query. Change the user name
that is in the query to db2inst1. The line that contains the user name is {call
DBADMIN.GET_CLIENT(?,?)}. Change DBADMIN to DB2INST1 as shown in
Figure 4-79. Click OK to continue. Complete the same process for all the data
sets, including the SQL data sets, and change the user name in the SQL data
sets from DBO to DB2INST1.
Figure 4-79 Edit SQL Query
Included BIRT reports
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager includes five templates for BIRT reporting.
The templates are in the /opt/ibm/tuam/server/reportsbirt/db2/standard
directory. The templates are:
RCFGX001.rptdesign Configuration Report
RCLTX001.rptdesign Client Report
RINVC007.rptdesign Invoice
RIVTC001.rptdesign Run Total Invoice
RRATX001.rptdesign Rate Report
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Sample reports
You can use the BIRT templates to generate reports for date ranges from your
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager database:
1. To run a report in the eclipse project Navigator window, right-click the report
type that you want from the list. Select Report Run Report. Figure 4-80
shows the parameters that you enter for a Run Total Invoice report.
Figure 4-80 Setting report parameters
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3. BIRT reports can be exported into several formats, including Microsoft®
Excel®, postscript, Microsoft Word, Microsoft PowerPoint®, and PDF.
Figure 4-82 on page 264 shows the PDF of the Run Total Invoice report. You
can use these formats to present reports to customers about system usage
and relate the system usage back to actual accounting charges.
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Figure 4-82 BIRT Run Total Invoice report PDF
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Figure 4-84 shows the BIRT Rate Report that is available in the templates.
Figure 4-84 BIRT Rate Report
For additional information about producing reports with BIRT, refer to Chapter 7,
“Reporting Scenarios” in the Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Application
Dependency Discovery Manager V7.1, SG24-7616.
4.4.5 Troubleshooting IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager
This section describes basic problems that have been encountered running IBM
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager.
DB2 transaction logs full
You might get the error message “AUCPE0202E The DBLoad process completed
unsuccessfully with the following exception:” when the DB2 transaction
logs are full. The solution is shown in Example 4-10 on page 267.
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Example 4-10 Increasing UDB Transaction Logs
tuam10:]su - db2inst1
$db2 connect to ituamdb
Database Connection Information
Database server = DB2/AIX64 9.1.4
SQL authorization ID = DB2INST1
Local database alias = ITUAMDB
$db2 get db cfg | grep -i LOGSECOND
Number of secondary log files (LOGSECOND) = 4
$db2 update db cfg using logsecond 150 immediate
DB20000I The UPDATE DATABASE CONFIGURATION command completed
successfully.
$db2 get db cfg show detail | grep -i LOGSECOND
Number of secondary log files (LOGSECOND) = 150 150
$db2 get snapshot for db on ITUAMDB | grep -i SEC
Secondary connects total = 3
Total buffer pool read time (milliseconds) = Not Collected
Total buffer pool write time (milliseconds)= Not Collected
Maximum secondary log space used (Bytes) = 208181636
Secondary logs allocated currently = 50
Log read time (sec.ns) = 0.000000004
Log write time (sec.ns) = 142.000000004
Application section lookups = 3429
Application section inserts = 843
Total shared section inserts = 0
Total shared section lookups = 0
Total private section inserts = 843
Total private section lookups = 903
Secondary ID = 2
Secondary ID = 1
Secondary ID = System 32k buffer pool
Secondary ID = System 16k buffer pool
Secondary ID = System 8k buffer pool
Secondary ID = System 4k buffer pool
File system filling up
Watch the file system sizes for a full condition as shown in Example 4-11 on
page 268. Increase the file system size or clean out the old accounting
transaction logs. The sample jobs that are set up in this book are set to delete the
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accounting files after 45 days. Be aware that the data is stored in multiple
locations.
The first location where the data is stored is on the client server in
/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/CS_input_source, which holds the daily
accounting data that is collected on the client. The data is transferred to the
server, but a copy is preserved on the client also. Setting up jobs to remove the
accounting files periodically is a good practice to prevent “File system full”
conditions (Example 4-11) from occurring in your environment.
The second location that contains the accounting data is on the server. The
accounting data from all the Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager clients is
gathered and stored in both the /usr/ituam/CS_input_source directory and then
loaded into the database also. Both the database and the file system that
contains the raw data for processing will need to be monitored for size.
Example 4-11 File system sizes in AIX and file system full condition
$ df -k
Filesystem 1024-blocks Free %Used Iused %Iused Mounted on
/dev/hd4 49152 2636 95% 1942 69% /
/dev/hd2 2342912 76116 97% 42773 63% /usr
/dev/hd9var 262144 122884 54% 2419 9% /var
/dev/hd3 507904 479236 6% 310 1% /tmp
/dev/hd1 16384 10740 35% 77 4% /home
/dev/hd11admin 131072 130708 1% 5 1% /admin
/proc - - - - - /proc
/dev/hd10opt 147456 11324 93% 2544 48% /opt
/dev/livedump 262144 261776 1% 4 1%
/var/adm/ras/livedump
/dev/fslv00 2097152 1854484 12% 44 1% /logs
/dev/fslv01 2097152 1253384 41% 448 1%
/home/db2inst1
/dev/fslv02 524288 33484 94% 3756 25% /opt/IBM/db2
/dev/fslv03 1114112 7316 100% 11994 73% /opt/ibm/tuam
/dev/itm_lv 4194304 3753964 11% 3288 1% /opt/IBM/ITM
Note: The /usr/ituam/CS_input_source directory is a link to
/opt/ibm/tuam/collectors/unix/CS_input_source. It is good practice to
create this path as a file system when you are collecting data from a large
number of clients.
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Installation problem with JDBC driver
In the process of configuring IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager 7.1, you
might see the following message:
The following information was provided:
[ibm][db2][jcc][10333][11649] No license was found. An appropriate
license file db2jcc_license_*.jar must be provided in the CLASSPATH
setting. Review the trace log to get detailed information.
To resolve this problem, you need to add the full path pointing to the location for
the DB2 JDBC driver license file and then restart the IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager server.
To avoid the problem, follow the steps listed in the next section.
Adding a JDBC driver
The appropriate JDBC driver must be available to enable the Usage and
Accounting Manager Processing Engine to access the DB2
database. If a client
needs to connect to the database, you are required to install the driver for that
client.
To enable the Usage and Accounting Manager Processing Engine to access the
database, the appropriate JDBC driver must be available on the server running
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager. The DB2 db2jcc.jar and
db2jcc_license_cu.jar (license JAR file) drivers are used by Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager. If you select JDBC support during the installation steps for
DB2, the driver and the license file are included in the installation.
To locate the drivers:
1. In the ISC, click Usage and Accounting Manager System
Maintenance Configuration Drivers.
2. On the Configuration - Drivers page, click New. The Browse button and text
box become available.
3. Type the path to the driver in the text box or click Browse to locate the path to
the driver. For DB2 for UNIX, enter the paths to both db2jcc_license_cu.jar
and db2jcc.jar.
4. Click OK to add the driver. The driver is added to the list of drivers.
Debugger trace and log information
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager has several log files that it uses for the
administration server, processing server, reporting server, and database server,
as shown in Table 4-6 on page 270.
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Table 4-6 Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager trace and log file information
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager additional resources
Additional resources that are useful for continued reading:
IBM Tivoli Usage Accounting Manager V7.1 Handbook, SG24-7404
Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager V7.1,
SG24-7569
Path or filename function
/opt/ibm/tuam/logs/jobrunner/<JobId> Job runner log files separated per JobID
<time stamp>.txt Job log output
<time stamp>.xml Job log for use with ISC
/opt/ibm/tuam/logs/server/ Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager trace
and log files
message0.log
message<g>.log<#>
Messages from tuam processing, where
<g> = generation and <#> = instance
trace0.log
trace<g>.log<#>
Trace details for tuam processing, where
<g> = generation and <#> = instance
*.lck Lock files for trace and log coordination
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01SystemOut.log/logs/server1
WebSphere and ISC files
SystemOut.log WebSphere messages
SystemErr.log WebSphere error log
/opt/ibm/tuam/config Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager config files
logging.properties Settings for trace and message files
jdk_logging.properties Not used with version 7.1
/opt/ibm/tivoli/common/AUC/logs/install Installation and uninstallation log files
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AACCT AIX Advanced Accounting
ABI Application Binary Interface
ACL Access Control List
AFPA Adaptive Fast Path
Architecture
AIO Asynchronous I/O
AIX Advanced Interactive
Executive
APAR Authorized Program Analysis
Report
API Application Programming
Interface
ARP Address Resolution Protocol
ASMI Advanced System
Management Interface
BFF Backup File Format
BIND Berkeley Internet Name
Domain
BIRT Business Intelligence
Reporting Tools
BIST Built-In Self-Test
BLV Boot Logical Volume
BOOTP Boot Protocol
BOS Base Operating System
BSD Berkeley Software Distribution
CA Certificate Authority
CATE Certified Advanced Technical
Expert
CD Compact Disk
CDE Common Desktop
Environment
CEC Common Event Console
CHRP Common Hardware
Reference Platform
Abbreviations and acronyms
CI Configuration items
CID Configuration ID
CLDR Common Locale Data
Repository
CLI Command-Line Interface
CLVM Concurrent LVM
CCMDB Change and Configuration
Management Database
CPU Central Processing Unit
CSM Cluster Systems
Management
CSR Common source format
CT Component Trace
DAS Database Administrator
Server
DB Database
DCEM Distributed Command
Execution Manager
DCM Dual Chip Module
DES Data Encryption Standard
DGD Dead Gateway Detection
DHCP Dynamic Host Configuration
Protocol
DLPAR Dynamic LPAR
DMA Direct Memory Access
DNS Domain Name Server
DR Dynamic Reconfiguration
DRM Dynamic Reconfiguration
Manager
DST Daylight Saving Time
eCMDB Enterprise Configuration
Management Database
EC EtherChannel
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ECC Error Checking and
Correcting
EGID Effective Group ID
EJB™ Enterprise Java Bean
EIF Event Integration Base
EPOW Environmental and Power
Warning
EPS Effective Privilege Set
ERRM Event Response Resource
Manager
ESE Enterprise Server Edition
ESS Enterprise Storage Server®
EUID Effective User ID
F/C Feature Code
FC Fibre Channel
FCAL Fibre Channel Arbitrated Loop
FDX Full Duplex
FFDC First Failure Data Capture
FLOP Floating Point Operation
FRU Field Replaceable Unit
FTP File Transfer Protocol
GB Gigabyte
GID Group ID
GPFS General Parallel File System
GSS General Security Services
GUI Graphical User Interface
HACMP/PowerHA High Availability Cluster
Multiprocessing
HBA Host Bus Adapters
HMC Hardware Management
Console
HPC High Performance Computing
HPM Hardware Performance
Monitor
HTML Hypertext Markup Language
HTTP Hypertext Transfer Protocol
Hz Hertz
I/O Input/Output
IBM International Business
Machines
ICU International Components for
Unicode
ID Identification
IDE Integrated Device Electronics
IEEE Institute of Electrical and
Electronics Engineers
IETF Internet Engineering Task
Force
IP Internetwork Protocol
IPAT IP Address Takeover
IPL Initial Program Load
IPMP IP Multipathing
IQN iSCSI Qualified Name
ISC Integrated Solutions Console
ISM IBM Support Management
ISSO Information System Security
Officer
ISV Independent Software Vendor
IT information technology
ITM IBM Tivoli Monitoring
ITSO International Technical
Support Organization
ITUAM IBM Tivoli Usage and
Accounting Manager
IVM Integrated Virtualization
Manager
JDBC Java Database Connectivity
JFS Journaled File System
JFS2 Journaled File System2
KAT Kernel Authorization Table
KB Kilobytes
KCT Kernel Command Table
KDT Kernel Device Table
KRT Kernel Role Table
KST Kernel Security Table
Abbreviations and acronyms 273
LA Link Aggregation
LACP Link Aggregation Control
Protocol
LAN Local Area Network
LDAP Light Weight Directory Access
Protocol
LFS Logical File System
LFT Low Function Terminal
LMB Logical Memory Block
LOB Line of Business
LPAR Logical Partition
LPP Licensed Program Product
LPS Limiting Privilege Set
LUN Logical Unit Number
LUNs Logical Unit Numbers
LV Logical Volume
LVCB Logical Volume Control Block
LVM Logical Volume Manager
LWI Lightweight Infrastructure
MAC Media Access Control
Mbps Megabits Per Second
MBps Megabytes Per Second
MCM Multichip Module
ME Management Edition
MIBs Management Information
Bases
ML Maintenance Level
MLS Multi Level Security
MP Multiprocessor
MPIO Multipath I/O
MPS Maximum Privilege Set
MTU Maximum Transmission Unit
NDAF Network Data Administration
Facility
NFS Network File System
NIB Network Interface Backup
NIM Network Installation
Management
NIMOL NIM on Linux
NIS Network Information Server
NVRAM Non-Volatile Random Access
Memory
ODBC Open Database Connectivity
ODM Object Data Manager
OSGi Open Services Gateway
Initiative
OSPF Open Shortest Path First
PCI Peripheral Component
Interconnect
PID Process ID
PIT Point-in-time
PKI Public Key Infrastructure
PLM Partition Load Manager
PM Performance Monitor
POSIX
Portable Operating System
Interface
POST Power-On Self-test
POWER® Performance Optimization
with Enhanced RISC
(Architecture)
PP Physical Partition
PPC Physical Processor
Consumption
PTF Program Temporary Fix
PTX Performance Toolbox
PV Physical Volume
PVID Physical Volume Identifier
QoS Quality of Service
PAC Proactive Analysis
Component
RAID Redundant Array of
Independent Disks
RAM Random Access Memory
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RAS Reliability, Availability, and
Serviceability
RBAC Role Based Access Control
RCP Remote Copy
RDAC Redundant Disk Array
Controller
RIP Routing Information Protocol
RISC Reduced Instruction-Set
Computer
RMC Resource Monitoring and
Control
ROI Return On Investment
RPC Remote Procedure Call
RPL Remote Program Loader
RPM Red Hat Package Manager
RSA Rivet, Shamir, Adelman
RSCT Reliable Scalable Cluster
Technology
RSH Remote Shell
RTE Runtime Error
RUID Real User ID
S System Scope
SA System Administrator
SAN Storage Area Network
SCP secure copy protocol
SCSI Small Computer System
Interface
SDD Subsystem Device Driver
SED Stack Execution Disable
SLs Sensitivity Labels
SMI Structure of Management
Information
SMIT Systems Management
Interface Tool
SMP Symmetric Multiprocessor
SMS System Management
Services
SMT Simultaneous multi-threading
SMTP Simple Mail Transfer Protocol
SNMP Simple Network Management
Protocol
SO System Operator
SP Service Processor
SPOT Shared Product Object Tree
SQL Structured Query Language
SRC System Resource Controller
SRN Service Request Number
SSA Serial Storage Architecture
SSH Secure Shell
SSL Secure Sockets Layer
SUID Set User ID
SVC SAN Virtualization Controller
TADDM Tivoli
TCB Trusted Computing Base
TCP/IP Transmission Control
Protocol/Internet Protocol
TE Trusted Execution
TEM Tivoli Enterprise Monitor
TEMA Tivoli Enterprise Monitor
Agent
TEMS Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring
Server
TEP Trusted Execution Path
TEPS Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server
TERMS Tivoli Enterprise Remote
Monitor Server
TPM Tivoli Productivity Manager
TSA Tivoli System Automation
TSD Trusted Signature Database
TTL Time-to-live
TUAM Tivoli Usage and Accounting
Manager
UCS Universal-Coded Character
Set
UDB Universal Database
Abbreviations and acronyms 275
UID User ID
VE Virtualization Edition
VG Volume Group
VIO Virtual I/O
VIPA Virtual IP Address
VLAN Virtual Local Area Network
VMM Virtual Memory Manager
VP Virtual Processor
VPA Visual Performance Analyzer
VPD Vital Product Data
VPN Virtual Private Network
VPSS Variable Page Size Support
VRRP Virtual Router Redundancy
Protocol
VSD Virtual Shared Disk
WAS WebSphere Application
Server
WED WebSphere Everyplace®
Deployment V6.0
WLM Workload Manager
WPAR Workload Partitions
WPS Workload Partition Privilege
Set
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Related publications
The publications listed in this section are considered particularly suitable for a
more detailed discussion of the topics covered in this book.
IBM Redbooks publications
For information about ordering these publications, see “How to get IBM
Redbooks publications” on page 278. Note that several of the documents
referenced here might be available in softcopy only:
PowerVM Virtualization on IBM system p: Introduction and Configuration
Fourth Edition, SG24-7940
PowerVM Virtualization on IBM System p: Managing and Monitoring,
SG24-7590
IBM System p Advanced POWER Virtualization (PowerVM) Best Practices,
REDP-4194
IBM PowerVM Live Partition Mobility, SG24-7460
Hardware Management Console V7 Handbook, SG24-7491
IBM AIX Version 6.1 Differences Guide, SG24-7559
Introduction to workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1,
SG24-7431
Workload Partition Management in IBM AIX Version 6.1, SG24-7656
AIX V6 Advanced Security Features Introduction and Configuration,
SG24-7430
Implementing IBM Systems Director 6.1, SG24-7694
Going Green with IBM Systems Director Active Energy Manager, REDP-4361
Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager V7.1,
SG24-7569
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager V7.1 Handbook, SG24-7404
Deployment Guide Series: IBM Tivoli Provisioning Manager Version 5.1,
SG24-7261
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Manager Capabilities and Best
Practices, SG24-7519
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Other publications
These publications are also relevant as further information sources:
Documentation available on the support and services Web site includes:
– User guides
– System management guides
– Application programmer guides
– All commands reference volumes
– Files reference
– Technical reference volumes that are used by application programmers
The support and services Web site is:
http://www.ibm.com/systems/p/support/index.html
Virtual I/O Server and support for Power Systems (including Advanced
PowerVM feature)
http://www14.software.ibm.com/webapp/set2/sas/f/vios/documentation/
Online resources
These Web sites are also relevant as further information sources:
IBM AIX
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/index.html
AIX Enterprise Edition
http://www.ibm.com/systems/power/software/aix/sysmgmt/enterprise/index.html
Tivoli Provisioning Manager (TPM)
http://www.ibm.com/software/tivoli/products/prov-mgr/features.htm
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Index
Symbols
$CANDLEHOME/bin/CandleManage 169
$CANDLEHOME/configph_dd.properties 83
$INSTALLDIR/registry/proddsc.tbl 76
$TADDM_installed_directory/dist/etc/collation.prop-
erties 117
$TADDM_MEDIA/TADDM/support/bin 100
/etc/hosts 229
/home/db2inst1 13
/home/db2inst1 DB2 file system 35
/opt/IBM/cmdb 117
/opt/IBM/cmdb/dist/bin 186
/opt/IBM/db2 13
/opt/IBM/db2 DB2 file system 34
/opt/IBM/db2/V9.1/instance 49
/opt/IBM/db2/V9.1/java/db2jcc.jar 251
/opt/IBM/db2/V9.1/java/db2jcc_license_cu.jar 251
/opt/IBM/ITM 56
/opt/ibm/tivoli/common/AUC/logs/install 127
/opt/ibm/tivoli/ituam/collectors/Unix/data 238
/opt/ibm/tuam/bin/RunSamples.sh 141
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/bin/startServer.sh server1 135
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/bin/stopServer.sh server1 135
/opt/ibm/tuam/ewas/profiles/AppSrv01/bin 127
/opt/ibm/tuam/server/reportsbirt/resources 251
/usr/sbin/updtvpkg 31
A
A_config.par file 238
access list 191
addBundles, tacmd command 176
advantages of EE 7
advantages of vritualization 10
agent manager 154
agents
TEMS 64
AIX advanced accounting 144
AIX Enterprise Edition 3–4
AIX Standard Edition 3
AIX Toolbox for Linux 99
AIX Version 6.1 4
analytics 213
application infrastructure 205
application mobility 160
application server verification 127
application tier, TADDM discovery 21
application WPAR 152
archuser, DB2 user 48
ARM 145
automation 7
ax, ITM product code 77
B
Bar Chart, ITM 164
base agents 64
BIRT 26, 119, 141, 250
bulkExportPcy, tacmd command 179
bulkExportSit, tacmd command 179
bulkImportPcy, tacmd command 179
bulkImportSit, tacmd command 179
business application, TADDM 218
Business Intelligence and Reporting Tools 250
business service 219
C
CandleManage command 169
CAS 152
CEC 77, 82, 161
cfgsvc command 94, 150
cg, ITM product code 77
Change and Configuration Management Database
112
change history, TADDM 228
chargeback 143
chart view, ITM 163
check_pacct script 240
chgroup command 92
CI 23
CIMSDATAIL 28
CIMSDETAILIDENT 28
CIMSRESOURCE UTILIZATION 28
CIMSSUMMARY 28
cinfo command 64–65, 93, 175, 182
Circular Gauge, ITM 166
CIs 19
cj, ITM product code 77
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CMDB 108
cmdb, DB2 user 48
collection interval, data warehouse 171
collection location data warehouse 171
commands
CandleManage 169
cfgsvc 94, 150
chgroup 92
cinfo 64–65, 93, 175, 182
control start 185
control stop 185
db2icrt 49
itmcmd 65, 72, 75, 93, 175, 180
launchpad.sh 32, 35, 100
lsof 22, 99
lssvc 94, 150
make_db2_db.sh 100
mkauthkeys 95
mkgroup 14, 92
mkuser 14, 92
scp 145
SetPerm 184
setupAix.bin 101
startServer.sh 128
startsvc 94, 150
stopServer.sh 128
sudo 22
tacmd 175
unzip 22
updtvpkg 31
viosvrcmd 95
visudo 98
Common Agent Services 152
common event console 73
Comparing the different AIX Offerings 2
components 4
computer System 200
configuration control 171
configuration item 23
configuration items 19
configure
base agents 81
BIRT 256
data source 134
JDBC driver 132
sudo 98
System p agent 85
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server 59
Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server 72
VIOS agent 94
WPAR manager 150
configure group 171
configurePortalServer, tacmd command 178
configureSystem, tacmd command 177
connector 73
control start command 185
control stop command 185
cq, ITM product code 77
createEventDest, tacmd command 179
createNode, tacmd command 175
createSit, tacmd command 178
createsystemlist, tacmd command 179
CS_COLL_PATH 238
CS_KEY 238
CS_METHOD 238
CS_nightly_consolidation script 240
CS_PLATFORM 238
CS_PROC_PATH 238
CS_send script 240
CS_USER 238
custom server, TADDM 212
cw, ITM product code 77
D
DAS user 44
dasadm1, DB2 user 14
dasusr1 user, DB2 14
data collector 143
data source 134
data sources configuration 134
data view, ITM 161
database estimation, ITM 16
database size estimation, TUAM 26
Database tuning 237
DB2 13, 29, 73, 120, 129
installing 34
DB2 Enterprise Server Edition 5
DB2 file systems 13
DB2 instance 44
DB2 planning 12
DB2 users and groups 13
db2fenc1, DB2 user 14
db2fgrp1, DB2 user 14
db2grp, DB2 user 14
db2icrt command 49
db2inst1, DB2 user 14, 48
db2jcc.jar 26
Index 283
db2jcc_license_cu.jar 26
deleteEventDest, tacmd command 179
deleteSit, tacmd command 178
deletesystemlist, tacmd command 180
describeSystemType, tacmd command 177
different AIX offerings 2
DIRECTOR_agent 94
disaster recovery, through virtualization 11
discovery 189
discovery profile 194
discovery scope 189
Discovery tuning 237
disk sizing requirements, ITM 15
DNSLookup 117
domain manager 108
E
Eclipse 250
Eclipse Help Server 66, 76
eCMDB 19
editEventDest, tacmd command 179
editSit, tacmd command 178
editsystemlist, tacmd command 180
EmbeddedExpress_aix_ppc32.tar 26
enabled access through shared infastructure,
through virtualization 10
Enterprise Configuration Management Database
eCMDB 19
Expansion Pack 99, 146
exportworkspaces, tacmd command 180
F
file systems
db2 13
Firefox 30, 52
FQDN 195
fully qualified domain name 195
G
global environment 152
GPFS 160
H
hardware consolidation, through virtualization 10
hardware platform 7
Hardware Prerequisites 7
hardware sizing, TADDM 22
hd, ITM product code 77
help, tacmd command 175
history configuration 170
history of discovery, TADDM 211
HMC 8, 161
HMC Base Agent 83
hub monitoring server 14
Hub Monitoring Server, requirements 16
I
IBM operational management 4
IBM Process Management 4
IBM service management 3–4
IBM service management platform 4
IBM Systems Director 3, 6
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Discovery Man-
ager 4–5
IBM Tivoli Application Dependency Manager 2
IBM Tivoli Monitoring 2, 4–5
IBM Tivoli Usage Accounting Manager 4
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager 2, 6
IBM Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager Virtual-
ization Edition 6
IBM TotalStorage 8
importworkspaces, tacmd command 180
improved hardware utilization, , through virtualiza-
tion 10
increased flexibility, through virtualization 10
Infrastructure service components, TADDM discov-
ery 21
initialize database 137
installing
base agents 77
DB2 34–35, 99
Eclipse Help Server 66
ITM 50
Summarization and Pruning Agent 91
System p agent 84
TADDM 97, 100
TEMS 56
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server 53
Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server 66
TUAM 119
Warehouse Proxy Agent 87
warehouse proxy agent 87
WPAR manager 150
install-tuam.sh script 146
Integrated Solutions Console 26
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Introduction and Overview 1
inventory 213
inventory reporting, TADDM 232
IP.PIPE protocol 18, 51, 73
IP.SPIPE protocol 18, 73
IP.UDP protocol 18, 73
ISC 26
ISCA71_4_EWASv61.tar 26
it, ITM product code 77
ITM
chart view 163
dataview 161
insalling 50
table view 162
ITM product codes 77
ITM protocol 18
ITM protocols 18
IP.PIPE 51, 73
IP.SPIPE 73
IP.UDP 73
SNA 18, 73
ITM_base 94
ITM_premium 94
itmcmd
agent 180
audit 181
config 181
dbagent 181
dbconfig 181
execute 181
history 181
manage 181
server 182
support 182
itmcmd command 65, 72, 75, 93, 175, 180
ITSO 8
ITUAM_base 94
ituam_format_aacct script 237
ituam_get_aacct script 237
ituam_schedule.sh script 146
ituam_send_aacct script 237
ituam_uc_nightly script 240
iw, ITM product code 77
J
Java Virtual Machine Tuning 237
JDBC 257, 269
JDBC driver configuration 132
job files 139, 243
job runner 243
K
KDC_PORTS 51
kf, ITM product code 77
L
Launchpad 30
launchpad.sh command 32, 35, 100
LDAP 20
lightweight directory access protocol 20
Linear Gauge, ITM 167
listBundles, tacmd command 176
listEventDest, tacmd command 179
listSit, tacmd command 178
listsystemlist, tacmd command 180
listSystems, tacmd command 178
listworkspaces, tacmd command 180
live application mobility 160
LOB 19
logical paritions
planning 11
login, tacmd command 175
logout, tacmd command 175
LPARs 11
lsof
command 22
lsof command 99
lssvc command 94, 150
M
make_db2_db.sh command 100
Management Edition (ME) for AIX 3
ME for AIX 30
MIB2 21
mkauthkeys command 95
mkgroup command 14, 92
mkuser command 14, 92
mobility 12
ms, ITM product code 77
N
Network tier, TADDM discovery 21
NFS 160
NFS server 35
Index 285
NIM 161
NIM server 8
O
OMNIbus 73
Operating system tuning 237
P
p5, ITM product code 77
pacct 143
ph, ITM product code 77
physical infrastructure 207
physical resources, virtualization 10
Pie Chart, ITM 163
pk, ITM product code 77
planning
DB2 12
ITM 14
TADDM 18
TUAM 23
workload partition manager 11
planning and sizing 9
planning,
LPARs 11
Plot Chart, ITM 165
portal client 14
Portal Client, requirements 16
portal server 14, 51
Portal Server, requirements 16
PowerHA 160
PowerVM 5
live application mobility 3, 5
Workload Partitions Manager 3–5
WPAR manager 3
primary network name 74
processing server 24
processor considerations, ITM 15
pull mode 241
push mode 241
pv, ITM product code 77
px, ITM product code 77
R
rapid provisioning, through virtualization 10
RCP Designer 251
Redbooks Web site 278
Contact us xxi
reduced power and cooling requirements, through
virtualization 11
refreshTECinfo, tacmd command 175
Relationship structure, TADDM discovery 22
reload 198
remote monitoring server 14
Remote Monitoring Server, requirements 16
removeBundles, tacmd command 176
report design 256
reporting server 24
resource manager 156
response file 42
restartAgent, tacmd command 177
RMI server 110
S
schedule discovery 208
scp command 145
scripts
check_pacct 240
CS_nightly_consolidation 240
CS_send 240
getdata.sh 238
install-tuam.sh 146
ituam_format_aacct 237
ituam_get_aacct 237
ituam_schedule.sh 146
ituam_send_aacct 237
ituam_uc_nightly 240
secure sockets layer 74
sensors 20
service management 2
service-oriented architecture 10
SetPerm command 184
setPerm command 184
setupAix.bin command 101
Simple Network Management Protocol 191
situation event indicator 174
situation formula 173
SNA protocol 18, 73
SNMP 191
SOA 10
software requirements, TUAM 25
SQL 259
ssh 99
command 22
startAgent, tacmd command 176
startServer.sh command 128
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startsvc command 94, 150
stopAgent, tacmd command 176
stopServer.sh command 128
Storage tuning 237
sudo 98
command 22
Summarization and Pruning agent 14
Summarization and Pruning Agent, requirements
16
System p agents 64
System tier, TADDM discovery 21
system WPAR 152
T
table view, ITM 162
tacmd commands 175
addBundles 176
bulkExportPcy 179
bulkExportSit 179
bulkImportPcy 179
bulkImportSit 179
configurePortalServer 178
configureSystem 177
createEventDest 179
createNode 175
createSit 178
createsystemlist 179
deleteEventDest 179
deleteSit 178
deletesystemlist 180
describeSystemType 177
editEventDest 179
editSit 178
editsystemlist 180
exportworkspaces 180
help 175
importworkspaces 180
listBundles 176
listEventDest 179
listSit 178
listsystemlist 180
listSystems 178
listworkspaces 180
login 175
logout 175
refreshTECinfo 175
removeBundles 176
restartAgent 177
startAgent 176
stopAgent 176
updateAgent 177
viewAgent 177
viewDepot 176
viewEventDest 179
viewNode 175
viewSit 178
viewsystemlist 180
TADDM 2, 5
installing 97
TADDM domain 19
TADDM Domain Manager 19
taddm10, DB2 user 48
TEMS
configuring 59
TEMS installing 56
TEPS
monitoring agents 70
Tivoli Application Dependency Manager 2
Tivoli Application Development Discovery Manager
97
Tivoli Data Warehouse 14, 74
Tivoli Data Warehouse, requirements 16
Tivoli Enterprise Console 96
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Agent 171
Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server 51, 55, 77
installing 53
Tivoli Enterprise Portal 5
Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server 77
Tivoli Monitoring product codes 77
Tivoli Monitoring Shared Libraries 77
Tivoli Netcool 73
Tivoli Usage and Accounting Manager 2, 117
topology 205
TPC 94
transaction log 266
troubleshooting 266
TSM_base 94
TUAM architecture 25
TUAM collectors 237
TUAM components 24
tuam-getdata.sh script 238
U
unzip 98
unzip command 22
updateAgent, tacmd command 177
Index 287
updtvpkg command 31
V
va, ITM product code 77
versions 211
viewAgent, tacmd command 177
viewDepot, tacmd command 176
viewEventDest, tacmd command 179
viewNode, tacmd command 175
viewSit, tacmd command 178
viewsystemlist, tacmd command 180
VIO 143, 149, 241
VIOS agent 94
viosvrcmd command 95
virtualization 10
physical resources 10
visudo command 98
W
warehouse interval 172
warehouse interval data warehouse 172
Warehouse Proxy agent 14
warehouse proxy agent
installing 87
Warehouse Proxy Agent, requirements 16
WebSphere Federation Server 113
workload partition 150
workload partition manager planning 11
WPAR 11, 82, 144, 160
WPAR Manager 2, 5, 7
WPAR manager 5
X
X filesets, required by TADDM 22
XML 139
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