IBM Tivoli and Cisco manual Remediation subsystem, Software Package Web Server

Remediation subsystem

The remediation subsystem has three components:

￿IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager server

￿Software Package Web Server

￿Remediation handler

IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager server

The Tivoli Configuration Manager supports a wide range of architecture types as well as a range of installation topologies (one-node, two-node, and three-node). The resulting multitude of combinations is well beyond the scope of this book.

While we wrote this book, the current version of the remediation server was

4.2.3.For the list of supported operating systems types consult the IBM Support Web site at:

http://www.ibm.com/software/sysmgmt/products/support/Tivoli_Supported_Platforms

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We assumed that ABBC has the base IBM Tivoli Configuration Manager Version

4.2.3server installed and configured, as it is used by the Operations department for Software Distribution and Inventory.

In 8.2.2, “Tivoli Configuration Manager” on page 359, the installation of the additionally required Web Gateway component is performed. The system used by

ABBC for the remediation server is configured as follows:

￿Windows 2003 Server Enterprise Edition with SP1 installed

￿Pentium IV @ 3.0Ghz CPU

￿1024 MB of system memory

￿4 GB of free disk space

￿The following middleware components are installed as prerequisites:

–WebSphere Application Server 5.1.1.11

–IBM HTTP Server 1.3.28

–DB2 Universal Database™ Enterprise Edition 8.2

Note: We have tested these components also on the RedHat Linux Enterprise Server 4.0 Update 4 running on the same type of server, but for the purpose of the book all of the images and paths were documented from the Windows installation.

Software Package Web Server

This J2EE™ application is the interface element between remediation handler and Tivoli Configuration Manager Web Gateway. It is delivered with IISSCN extension pack2 for Tivoli Configuration Manager in the form of an installable

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