Re: [nv-l] IBM Tivoli Netview for Linux Installation

[John M Gatrell <John.Gatrell@uk.ibm.com>]

Just some hints, not to be taken as
gospel (I am more familiar with other flavours of linux).
Chances are a Xeon system has hardware
raid so you will just see 1 disk of 73.4GB
Starting from the standard install scheme,
then

Reduce size of /home to very small (1GB)

In case you ever put other products
on such as IBM java, or Tivoli gateway add a /opt partition.
/opt should be at least 2GB.

Keep the root partition '/' small.
Have a separate /boot partition.

Netview is best in it's own /usr/OV
partition.

Split the rest of the disk into 2 partitions
called
/usr and /usr/OV
say 30% to /usr and 60% to /usr/OV

John Gatrell, BA, AIX Cert Specialist,
Cisco CCNA.


I need to install IBM Tivoli Netview 7.1.4 on a server
IBM xSeries 336:

- 2 x Processor Xeon 3.2 GHz/800MHz 1MB L2 Cache EM64T
- 2 x HD 73.4 GB
- 4GB ECC DDR2 SDRAM RDIMM

with OS SLES 9.

I'ld like to figure out what is the best partition scheme to use for my
platform.

Many Thanks,

rocsca