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

2005-07-29 09:32:35
Subject: Re: [nv-l] IBM Tivoli Netview for Linux Installation
From: Mark Sklenarik <marksk AT us.ibm DOT com>
To: nv-l AT lists.us.ibm DOT com
Date: Fri, 29 Jul 2005 09:31:54 -0400

Logical Volume Manage (LVM), its great when you want to increase or add filesystems and in some cases delete filesystems without having to change the partitions on the hard drive.   I normally create the following a /boot,  a / root, a swap space, and then create a LVM on the rest of the harddrive and then create the additional filesystem within the LVM. like /usr/OV, /usr/OV/log, /usr/OV/www/log, /opt, /playarea

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



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Many thanks to you too..

Excuse me but I did not see you answer so I forward  further insight to
John...

At the moment, I never have used LVM. In what situation in suitable?

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From: "Mark Sklenarik" <marksk AT us.ibm DOT com>
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> 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.
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> Do not forget to create your swap space,  with 4Gb of ram, normally test
> makes a swap space 4 GB also
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> 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.
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> /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.
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> /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.
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> Mark F Sklenarik  IBM SWG Tivoli Solutions  Quality Assurance   Business
> Impact Management and Event Correlation Software Quality Engineer
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> John M Gatrell <John.Gatrell AT uk.ibm DOT com>
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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
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> Reduce size of /home to very small (1GB)
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> 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.
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> Keep the root partition '/' small.
> Have a separate /boot partition.
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> Netview is best in it's own /usr/OV partition.
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> Split the rest of the disk into 2 partitions called
> /usr and /usr/OV
> say 30% to /usr and 60% to /usr/OV
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> John Gatrell, BA, AIX Cert Specialist, Cisco CCNA.
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> I need to install IBM Tivoli Netview 7.1.4 on a server IBM xSeries 336:
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> - 2 x Processor Xeon 3.2 GHz/800MHz 1MB L2 Cache EM64T
> - 2 x HD 73.4 GB
> - 4GB ECC DDR2 SDRAM RDIMM
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> with OS SLES 9.
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> I'ld like to figure out what is the best partition scheme to use for my
> platform.
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> Many Thanks,
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> rocsca
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