Configuring the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center agents

You can configure and start the IBM® TotalStorage® Productivity Center agents on the Virtual I/O Server.

With Virtual I/O Server 1.5.2, you can configure the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center agents on the Virtual I/O Server. TotalStorage Productivity Center is an integrated, storage infrastructure management suite that is designed to help simplify and automate the management of storage devices, storage networks, and capacity utilization of file systems and databases. When you configure the TotalStorage Productivity Center agents on the Virtual I/O Server, you can use the TotalStorage Productivity Center user interface to collect and view information about the Virtual I/O Server.

Before you start, complete the following tasks:

Use the ioslevel command to verify that the Virtual I/O Server is at version 1.5.2, or later.
Ensure that there are no other operations running on the Virtual I/O Server. Configuring the TotalStorage Productivity Center consumes all of the processing time.
In addition to the memory required by the Virtual I/O Server logical partition, ensure that you have allocated a minimum of 1 GB of memory to the Virtual I/O Server for the TotalStorage Productivity Center agents.

To configure and start the TotalStorage Productivity Center agents, complete the following steps:

List all of the available TotalStorage Productivity Center agents using the lssvc command. For example,
```
$lssvc
TPC
```
The TPC agent includes both the TPC_data and TPC_fabric agents. When you configure the TPC agent, you configure both the TPC_data and TPC_fabric agents.
List all of the attributes that are associated with the TotalStorage Productivity Center agent using the lssvc command. For example:
```
$lssvc TPC
A:
S:
devAuth:
caPass:
caPort:
amRegPort:
amPubPort:
dataPort:
devPort:
newCA:
oldCA:
daScan:
daScript:
daInstall:
faInstall:
U:
```
The A, S, devAuth, and caPass attributes are required. The remainder of the attributes are optional. For more information about the attributes, see Configuration attributes for IBM Tivoli agents and clients.
Configure the TotalStorage Productivity Center agent with its associated attributes using the cfgsvc command:
```
cfgsvc TPC -attr S=tpc_server_hostname A=agent_manager_hostname devAuth=password_1 caPass=password_2
```
Where:
- tpc_server_hostname is the host name or IP address of the TotalStorage Productivity Center server that is associated with the TotalStorage Productivity Center agent.
- agent_manager_hostname is the name or IP address of the Agent Manager.
- password_1 is the password required to authenticate to the TotalStorage Productivity Center device server.
- password_2 is the password required to authenticate to the common agent.
Select the language that you want to use during the installation and configuration.
Accept the license agreement to install the agents according to the attributes specified in step 3.
Start each TotalStorage Productivity Center agent using the startsvc command:
- To start the TPC_data agent, run the following command:
```
startsvc TPC_data
```
- To start the TPC_fabric agent, run the following command:
```
startsvc TPC_fabric
```

After you start the TotalStorage Productivity Center agents, you can perform the following tasks using the TotalStorage Productivity Center user interface:

Run a discovery job for the agents on the Virtual I/O Server.
Run probes, scans, and ping jobs to collect storage information about the Virtual I/O Server.
Generate reports using the Fabric Manager and the Data Manager to view the storage information gathered.
View the storage information gathered using the topology Viewer.

For more information, see the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center support for agents on a Virtual I/O Server PDF. To view or download the PDF, go to the IBM TotalStorage Productivity Center v3.3.1.81 Interim Fix Web site.