Configuring the installation images
Before you can install agents or the IBM® Performance Management Hybrid Gateway, you must configure the downloaded
installation images for communication with the Performance Management server.
If you already configured your
installation images, but want to change between HTTP and HTTPS protocol, you can configure images to
specify HTTP or HTTPS.
About this task
If you selected the option to configure your agent images (and optionally Hybrid Gateway images) when you installed the server, you can skip this task.
Before you can install agents, you must configure the downloaded agent installation images for communication with the Performance Management server. The agent framework is not included in the downloaded agent installation images. The agent framework is installed in the AgentFrameworks directory during the Performance Management server installation. The agent framework is injected into installation images during configuration.
Configuring the installation images for connecting to the Performance Management server requires that you run two scripts:
- Run make_configuration_packages on the system where the Performance Management server is installed. The script creates a configuration package TAR file and .zip file with information that the installer and agents need for communications with the server.
- Run configure_agent_images on the system where the Performance Management server is installed. The script applies information from the configuration package to the image files that you downloaded for installation.
Procedure
Complete these steps to download and configure the installation images:
Results
What to do next
- If you configured the agent images archive file on the Performance Management server, copy the configured agent images archive file to the system where the applications that you want to monitor are installed, and install the agents.
- If you configured the Hybrid Gateway image archive file on the Performance Management server, copy the configured image archive file to the system in your Tivoli Monitoring network where you want to install the Hybrid Gateway.