Configuring the TEPS 'cq' on a Linux .

( Views are my own - and does not reflect that of my employer)

Some configuration steps I used when I was configuring the TEPS agent.
if the DB2 was configured with the defaults - then the itmuser passwd is itmpswd1.
This was on a RHEL 32 bit.
Important This is for the Embedded Database. and not the DB2 database.




Typically, I'd watch for the last step Installation Presentation part- where it says the status.

ITM Performance Analyzer - (ITPA) DB2 Configuration and it's effects?

Scenarios : Some snapshots of how a Performance Analyzer panel on the TEPS GUI shows up when the user clicks on the Performance Anayzer if the Database is configured ?

Good one :



Bad one :
If DB2 is not configured right :



How do we track and resolve this ?

I will cover this in my next blog ?

Tivoli Performance Analyzer - Domain Support installation and viewing it on the TEPS GUI.

(All views and opinions are mine and does not reflect my employer's point of view. )

IBM Tivoli Performance Analyzer agent is an intelligent tool that predicts the health of a system based on predictive analyses looking at the previous history of various factors like CPU, Disk and Memory amongst other parameters.
User will get an overview of how things will look down the road if the current state  or health continues - thereby giving an opportunity to correct it before server reaches a critical situation.

For more on the product please refer to http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp
and select ' IBM Tivoli Monitoring'

In order the Performance Analyzer is fully effective and utilized, end-user has to install the ITPA support product as well as the Domain Support.

First the user would install the ITM 6.2.3 FP1 and choose the installation of the Performance  Analyzer agent,

After this - install and configure the Performance Analyzer Domain Support. product ( CI62LML )

User has to stop and reconfigure TEPS after this - to get the right task names correctly rendered on the TEPS GUI.

once done - user will run a <CANDLE_HOME>/bin/cinfo -t  (' the letter 't') and view the results and note that it will list the Performance Analyzer ( pa ) and the rest of the domains support ( p0..p6 ) are installed.




 

Provisioning Virtual Images in Smart Cloud Provisioning.

 

IBM recently released the Smart Cloud during the Pulse 2012 and I got a sneak preview of the application under the hood. I wont get into the marketing details  here  -rather into some technical of the product, and how easy it is to create some instances in the product.
Some Snapshots are included here.

First you would login to the SCP user interface and go thru first few steps as indicated here to create the instances.


Click on Virtual Images and you will see the list of available Images that are offered to you.
You have to select an image and click on Launch, indicate the number of instances you need.




Once this is done - you see them in the Deployed VMs tab.



you can attach storage to it -once have created the instance of this image.







Once storage is created - you have to attach it to a deployed VM






Now you have an instance with the storage attached.

the Login procedure is simple.

just download the private key from the SCP portal and download it


Get the IP address of the newly created instance.



Get the IP address of the newly created instance.



ssh -i <private.key > IP address of the newly created instance to login.

This should get you started.

As to how to create an instance from an image - will be covered in upcoming blogs.

Provisioning Virtual Images in Smart Cloud Provisioning.

IBM recently released the Smart Cloud during the Pulse 2012 and I got a sneak preview of the application under the hood. I wont get into the marketing details  here  -rather into some technical of the product, and how easy it is to create some instances in the product.

Instances in this context means servers on a virtual environment.


Some Snapshots are included here.

First you would login to the SCP user interface and go thru first few steps as indicated here to create the instances.


Click on Virtual Images and you will see the list of available Images that are offered to you.
You have to select an image and click on Launch, indicate the number of instances you need.




Once this is done - you see them in the Deployed VMs tab.



You can attach storage to it -once have created the instance of this image.







Once storage is created - you have to attach it to a deployed VM.






Now you have an instance with the storage attached.

The Login procedure is simple.

just download the private key from the SCP portal and download it


Get the IP address of the newly created instance.



Get the IP address of the newly created instance.



ssh -i <private.key > IP address of the newly created instance to login.

This should get you started.

As to how to create an instance from an image - will be covered in upcoming blogs.