This section includes the following topics:
Most of the screens for this installation require you to input details regarding your information systems. Before performing this installation, compile a list of all required user inputs based on the screen names and tables below. Each table (in the sections below) lists the options per screen.
Before installing an Other Tier instance, verify that you have performed the following tasks:
This section describes the procedures that are needed to install an Other Tier instance. You have the option of adding a new instance, as well as adding a new application. For information on editing or removing an existing instance, see Editing or removing tier instances or clusters.
On the AdminPoint Instances screen, you can add a new Tier instance.
Before adding a Tier instance, create a list of all required inputs based on the screen information below. |
To add a Tier instance
Click OK.
To install an instance in an application, you must have |
Click OK to view the next screen.
Always refresh AdminPoint after adding an instance. |
To define Other Tier property settings
From the drop-down menu, select an existing Tier name or type in a new, unique name of the Other Tier where you want to monitor network activity by the Insight Savvy for Network agents.
This name will appear in the Precise user interface. For example, if your application contains an IBM Informix database server, name the Tier informixSrv; or, if you want to monitor this Tier remotely, name it remoteInformix. |
Other
The monitored application can use a Citrix protocol or any other protocol. If you need to find the port for a Citrix Tier you want to monitor, you can use the psinet utility (located in the products\insight\bin folder) and look for the termsrv.exe process. Its output shows you the port number process ID and process name listening on the TCP socket. You will see that the Citrix clients are connected to one listening port (the default is 1494). Use this port when installing a new Citrix instance. |
Remote. This enables Insight Savvy for Network to monitor all TCP traffic to a remote server port. The Insight Network agent is installed on the client side of the connection and monitors the client activity against a remote server port. Remote monitoring is usually used to monitor services that cannot be monitored locally (mainframe or unsupported operating systems running TCP applications). For example, if an application server is connected to a database server on an unsupported platform (for example mainframe), you can monitor the activity generated from the application server to the remote database server.
If you select Remote, you must select Static for the TCP/IP port monitoring. |
From the drop-down menu, select the name of the server where you want to install the instance of the Other Tier. The server name or IP address only appears in the list if you previously defined it as a Precise Server. Click Add to enter the name of a server not on the list. For more information, see see Adding a new server.
If you monitor this server locally, this is also the server where the Insight Savvy for Network is installed. If you monitor this server remotely, the Insight Savvy for Network is installed on a different server(s). If you choose to monitor remotely, instead of selecting the server name from the drop-down menu or by clicking Add, you will need to type the server name in the textbox. |
Select monitoring for either Static or Dynamic TCP/IP ports.
You may want to monitor dynamic ports instead of a range of specific ports (Static). This option is suitable if the port can change during the execution of an application or if the port is unknown at the time of installation. |
If you selected monitoring for Static TCP/IP ports
On the “Other Instance Installation-Ports Settings” screen, add the range of TCP/IP Ports in the specified text boxes.
Click Add to add the range to the list.
Click Next.
If you selected monitoring for Dynamic TCP/IP ports:
On the “Other Instance Installation-Dynamic Settings” screen, add at least one name to the “Include Programs” table with a maximum of nine characters
Click Add to insert them. The table can contain a maximum of three names. A program will be selected if a substring matches a name appearing in the “Include Programs” list but does not match any names in the “Exclude Programs” list.
Click Next.
Click Next.
You can also do the following
If you selected remote monitoring, you need to choose the servers from which you want to monitor the remote Tier. After clicking Next on the “Other Instance Installation-Ports Setting” page, perform the following procedure:
To set remote monitoring options for the Other Tier
The preview screen signifies that the AdminPoint Tier installer has gathered enough information to begin the installation phase.
The preview screen displays the following details before installation begins:
At this screen, you can still change any of the settings displayed. Click Back to change any of the displayed settings. Click Next to continue installation. Click Cancel to stop the installation process.
This screen appears when the AdminPoint Tier installer is actually performing installation. Installation may take several minutes.
The progress screen visually displays the progress of actual installation on selected servers.
This screen appears when the AdminPoint Tier Installer has completed installation of all Tier instances.
If there are no action items, click Finish (it will be the only option available) to complete the instance installation. If there are action items, click Next (it will be the only option available).
After a Tier instance is installed, you must perform post-installation tasks as may be required. Only after completing any post-installation tasks required can you start using the Tier instances you have just installed.
Perform any tasks displayed on this screen. Click Execute for Precise to perform the action items.
On UNIX, you will need to manually perform the action item with root-level permission. |
Click Mark as done if you have performed the action items yourself.
When the Other Tier Collectors have been installed, post-installation tasks are required if any Insight Savvies were running during the installation process.
Perform all post-installation tasks by following the instructions on the Action Items screen and click Finish.
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