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

[Mark Sklenarik <marksk@us.ibm.com>]

Some additional ideas
root "/" on SLES needs to
be at least 3-4 GB, 
        The
reason being is if you plan to perform online up dates, Yast2 needs some
place to copy the files to, until they are installed.  I have yet
to determine where online update puts the temp install files, I found this
when an update failed and hung my machine, had to reinstall the OS.

Do not forget to create your swap space,
 with 4Gb of ram, normally test makes a swap space 4 GB also

I would also suggest after creating
/, /boot, and swap space, you use LVM functions of SLES 9, this will allow
you to grow a file system if you originally make it to small. 

/usr/OV - the Tivoli test organization
normal sets this to about 4 GB,  this allows room for the large trace
files we sometime need to get. 

/opt        -
the Tivoli test organization normal sets this to about 4 GB, since we end
up install a number of other products on test systems.

Mark F Sklenarik  IBM SWG Tivoli
Solutions  Quality Assurance   Business Impact Management
and Event Correlation Software Quality Engineer

John M Gatrell <John.Gatrell@uk.ibm.com>
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07/29/2005 08:05 AM

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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