Installation overview for Linux
This topic gives an overview of
the installation tasks for IBM TotalStorage Multiple Device Manager (MDM) and the order in
which they are to be performed. It also includes descriptions of the components
that must be installed.
Installation tasks
overview
This section lists the tasks you perform when installing Multiple Device Manager. You must
complete these tasks in the order that they are presented:
- Verify hardware and software prerequisites for the target Multiple Device Manager system.
- (Required) Install DB2 Universal Database Workgroup Edition V8.1 with the DB2 V8.1.2 update (FixPak 2).
- (Required) Install IBM Director 4.12.
 | Note: You will need the DB2
user name and password for the IBM Director installation. |
- (Optional) Install the rpm-build software package if it is
not already installed on your system. The Multiple Device Manager installation program uses
this software to add information to the RPM database. If the rpm-build software
is not present, the Multiple Device Manager installation will report the missing software. However,
the installation program will allow you to choose to continue the installation
even if this software is missing.
If you do not have the rpm-build software
on your system and choose to continue the installation, you can use the following
command to determine the level of Multiple Device Manager on your system:
grep -E "^ibmmdmdm\|" ~root/vpd.properties
- (Required) Install Multiple Device Manager (MDM) Base Code and the WebSphere Application
Server 5.1 including the WebSphere Message Queuing CSD 05. If the WebSphere Application Server 5.1 and its required components are already
installed on your machine, the MDM Installation Wizard will detect this and
it will only install Multiple Device Manager Base Code.
 | Note: You will need the DB2
user name and password for the MDM software installation. |
- (Optional) Install Performance Manager using IBM Performance Manager wizard.
 | Note: You will need the DB2 user name and password for the Performance Manager installation. |
- (Optional) Install Replication Manager using IBM Replication Manager wizard.
 | Note:
See the User names and passwords topic listed below for more detail about the particular user name and
password combinations required during the installation process. |
Components to be installed
This section lists additional detail about the components that
must be installed before you can use Multiple Device Manager.
- DB2 Universal Database
- Multiple Device Manager uses DB2 for persistent storage needs. A copy of DB2 is shipped with
MDM, and must be installed and configured for use with MDM.
- IBM Director
- As part of the Multiple Device Manager infrastructure IBM Director provides device discovery, device
management, and other services to Multiple Device Manager users. These services are provided
through a graphical user interface that gives system administrators easy access
to both local and remote systems. Additional single-device, multiple-device,
and cross-device configuration functions are provided by Device Manager, which
has a dual role as a component of Multiple Device Manager and as part of the infrastructure
of IBM Director.
- Multiple Device Manager
- Multiple Device Manager software is the basic component of the Multiple Device Manager product and is added
to IBM Director. It provides access to single-device, multiple-device, and
cross-device configuration functionality
- WebSphere Application Server
- The WebSphere Application Server is a high-performance, scalable
transaction engine for dynamic e-business applications. WebSphere provides
a single Web services-enabled application server and development environment.
 | Notes:
- This installation of WebSphere Application Server must be reserved
for use with Multiple Device Manager, so Multiple Device Manager and the related installation and removal programs
can start and stop WebSphere Application Server as necessary.
- The MDM uninstallation program uninstalls MDM but it does not uninstall WebSphere Application Server. Separate instructions are provided for
removing Multiple Device Manager and for removing WebSphere Application
Server.
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- Performance Manager
- The Performance Manager component of Multiple Device Manager manages and monitors the
performance of the storage devices that Multiple Device Manager supports. Users can track the
performance of a storage device from the data that Performance Manager collects.
The data can be viewed in user defined graphs. The performance advisor function
shows the user how to set performance requirements for data retrieval and
maintenance and how to allocate data storage to meet these requirements.
- Replication Manager
- Replication Manager provides a user interface for creating, maintaining,
and using volume groups and for scheduling copy tasks. The User Interface
populates lists of volumes using the Device Manager interface. Replication
Manager provides two types of copy services, Continuous Copy and Point-in-Time
Copy. These data-copy services maintain consistent copies of data on source
volumes that are managed by Multiple Device Manager. A Replication Manager copy session ensures
that data on multiple related heterogeneous volumes is kept consistent by
managing the volume pairs in the session as a consistent unit.
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