Front cover -- Contents -- Figures -- Tables -- Examples -- Notices -- Trademarks -- Preface -- The team that wrote this redbook -- Become a published author -- Comments welcome -- Part 1 The outlet environment -- Chapter 1. The challenges of managing an outlet environment -- 1.1 Complex application infrastructures -- 1.2 Managing outlet application systems -- 1.2.1 Service Delivery -- 1.2.2 Service Support -- 1.3 The outlet application infrastructure -- 1.3.1 Basic products used to facilitate outlet applications -- 1.3.2 Managing outlet applications using Tivoli -- 1.4 Tivoli product structure -- 1.5 Managing outlet applications -- 1.6 Meeting future challenges today -- Chapter 2. The Outlet Solution overview -- 2.1 Introducing Outlet Inc. -- 2.1.1 The Outlet Inc. environment -- 2.1.2 Outlet Solution features -- 2.1.3 Current IT infrastructure -- 2.1.4 Constraints -- 2.2 The Outlet Systems Management Solution -- 2.2.1 Outlet Systems Management Solution requirements -- 2.2.2 Outlet Systems Management Solution capabilities -- Chapter 3. The Outlet Systems Management Solution Architecture -- 3.1 Outlet Inc. requirements -- 3.2 Physical architecture for Outlet Inc. -- 3.2.1 Tivoli Command Center -- 3.2.2 TMR connections within Outlet Inc. -- 3.2.3 Tivoli gateway architecture -- 3.3 Logical Tivoli architecture for Outlet Inc. -- 3.3.1 Administering the Tivoli Management Environment -- 3.3.2 Tivoli naming conventions for Outlet Inc. -- 3.4 Setup and configuration planning -- 3.4.1 Suggested Tivoli hardware requirements -- 3.4.2 Tivoli repeater architecture -- 3.4.3 Optimizing slow links connections -- 3.4.4 Managing endpoint behavior -- 3.4.5 Managing the TME Infrastructure -- 3.4.6 Tivoli and RDBMS Integration -- 3.5 Network communications and considerations -- 3.5.1 TCP/IP -- 3.6 Configuration management.

3.6.1 Tivoli Configuration Manager: Inventory -- 3.7 Release management -- 3.7.1 Software Distribution in Outlet Inc. -- 3.7.2 Integrating Tivoli Software Distribution with the TEC -- 3.7.3 Integrating Tivoli Software Distribution with Inventory -- 3.8 Availability and Capacity Management -- 3.8.1 IBM Tivoli Monitoring architecture -- 3.8.2 ITM for Databases: DB2 -- 3.8.3 ITM for Web Infrastructure: WebSphere Application Server -- 3.8.4 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance -- 3.9 Event management -- Part 2 Management solution implementation -- Chapter 4. Installing the Tivoli Infrastructure -- 4.1 The Outlet Systems Management Solution -- 4.1.1 Management environments -- 4.1.2 Functional component locations -- 4.2 Installation planning and preparation -- 4.2.1 Create naming standards for all Tivoli related objects -- 4.2.2 Operating platform preparation -- 4.2.3 Enabling SMB server on the srchost server -- 4.2.4 Establishing a code library -- 4.3 Installation and configuration -- 4.3.1 Establishing an installation roadmap -- 4.3.2 Installing a working database environment -- 4.3.3 Establishing the TME infrastructure -- 4.3.4 Tivoli Enterprise Console v3.9 -- 4.3.5 Installing Tivoli Configuration Manager -- 4.3.6 IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation -- 4.3.7 IBM Tivoli Manager Web Health Console -- 4.3.8 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure -- 4.3.9 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for databases -- 4.3.10 TMTP Management Server -- 4.4 Postinstallation configuration -- 4.4.1 Framework customization -- 4.4.2 Enabling MDIST2 -- 4.4.3 Enabling Tivoli End-User Web Interfaces -- 4.4.4 Configuring the Tivoli Enterprise Console -- 4.4.5 Customizing the Inventory -- 4.4.6 Configuring Software Distribution -- 4.4.7 Enabling the Activity Planner -- 4.4.8 Enabling Change Manager -- 4.4.9 IBM Tivoli Monitoring configuration.

4.4.10 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure -- 4.4.11 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases -- 4.4.12 IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance -- Chapter 5. Creating profiles, packages, and tasks -- 5.1 Defining the logical structure of the environment -- 5.2 Deploying management endpoints -- 5.3 Creating monitoring profiles -- 5.3.1 Inventory scanning -- 5.3.2 Hardware scanning -- 5.3.3 System software scan -- 5.3.4 Custom scan -- 5.3.5 Defining OS and HW Monitoring Profiles -- 5.3.6 Defining TEC profiles -- 5.3.7 Building the software package for deploying DB2 Server -- 5.3.8 Creating a DB2 instance for the Outlet Solution -- 5.3.9 Defining DB2 monitoring objects -- 5.3.10 Creating the db2ecc user ID -- 5.3.11 Creating profiles for Tivoli Monitoring for Databases -- 5.3.12 Deploying WebSphere Application Server -- 5.3.13 Enabling WebSphere Application Server monitoring -- 5.3.14 Creating a software package for TimeCard Store Server -- 5.3.15 Installing the TMTP Management Agent -- 5.3.16 Configuring TMTP to monitor WebSphere -- Part 3 Putting the solution to use -- Chapter 6. Deployment -- 6.1 Automating deployment -- 6.2 Automating tasks -- 6.3 Creating the deployment activity plan -- 6.3.1 Building the reference model -- 6.3.2 Completing the activity plan -- 6.4 Defining the logical structure of the Outlet Inc. environment -- 6.5 Creating endpoint policies -- 6.5.1 Allow_login policy -- 6.5.2 Select_gateway policy -- 6.5.3 Login policy -- 6.5.4 After_login policy -- 6.6 Installing endpoints -- Part 4 Appendixes -- Appendix A. Configuration files and scripts -- A.1 Additional material contents -- A.2 TMR setup and maintenance-related files -- A.2.1 create_logical_structure.sh -- A.2.2 Store lists -- A.2.3 load_tasks.sh -- A.2.4 update_resources.sh -- A.3 Policies and related tasks and scripts -- A.3.1 put.sh -- A.3.2 get.sh.

A.3.3 allow_policy -- A.3.4 select_policy -- A.3.5 gateway.lst -- A.3.6 login_policy -- A.3.7 after_policy -- A.3.8 sub_ep.sh -- A.3.9 ep_login_notif.sh -- A.3.10 run_ep_customization_task.sh -- A.4 DB2 monitoring deployment-related scripts -- A.4.1 create_db2_instance_objects.sh -- A.4.2 create_db2_database_objects.sh -- A.4.3 itm_db2_instance_rm_distrib.sh -- A.4.4 itm_db2_database_rm_distrib.sh -- A.5 WebSphere Application Server monitoring deployment files -- A.5.1 create_app_server.sh -- A.5.2 itm_was_rm_distrib.sh -- A.5.3 was_configure_tec_adapter.sh -- A.5.4 was_start_tec_adapter.sh -- A.5.5 was_stop_tec_adapter.sh -- A.6 TMTP monitoring deployment scripts -- A.6.1 addtoagentgroup.sh -- A.6.2 deployj2ee.sh -- A.7 Software Packages and related files -- A.7.1 Common scripts -- A.7.2 IBM HTTP Server v2.0.47 -- A.7.3 WebSphere Message Queuing Server v5.3 -- A.7.4 WebSphere Message Queuing Server v5.3 Fixpack 8 -- A.7.5 WebSphere Application Server v5.1 -- A.7.6 WebSphere Application Server v5.1 Fixpack 1 -- A.7.7 DB2 Server v8.2 -- A.7.8 TMTP Agent v5.3 -- A.7.9 WebSphere Caching Proxy v5.1 -- A.7.10 WebSphere Caching Proxy v5.1 Fixpack 1 -- A.7.11 TimeCard v5.1 -- A.8 APM related scripts and files -- A.8.1 ep_customization.sh -- A.8.2 Production_Outlet_Plan_v1.0.xml -- Appendix B. Obtaining the installation images -- IBM Business Partners -- Appendix C. Additional material -- Locating the Web material -- Using the Web material -- System requirements for downloading the Web material -- How to use the Web material -- Glossary -- Abbreviations and acronyms -- Related publications -- IBM Redbooks -- Product Manuals -- IBM Tivoli Management Framework v4.1.1 -- IBM Enterprise Console v3.9 -- IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager v4.2.1 -- IBM Tivoli Monitoring v5.1 -- IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Databases v5.1.2.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Web Infrastructure v5.1.2 -- IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Transaction Performance v5.3 -- Online Information Centers -- Online manuals -- Online resources -- How to get IBM Redbooks -- Help from IBM -- Index -- Back cover.