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On Install Packages, review the International Program License Agreement and click the radio button to accept the terms if you want to continue with the installation. On Install Packages, select a location for Installation Manager, enter an installation directory. On Install Packages, summary information, review the summary information and click the Install button to begin the installation. After the Installation Manager is restarted, continue to the next section in this chapter entitled: Section 3.

Fix Pack 8. For purposes of this procedure, all references are to release 8. Start the IBM Installation Manager, which you must have previously installed as described in the preceding chapter of this guide entitled: Section 3. For example:. You must configure the software repository in the Installation Manager before you can start the product installation. On Preferences, click on the Add Repository Optionally, if needed for your installation, you should enable a proxy server and enter proxy information.

After all repositories are added, click the Install option from the Installation Manager. IBM Installation Manager displays a list of available products, as shown in the following example:.

If the IBM Install Manager displays a list of updates, it is recommended that you click the Select Recommended button to accept and install the updates. On Install Packages, select location for the shared resources directory, enter an appropriate location for IMShared. On Install Packages, package group, click the radio button entitled: Create a new package group. It does not have to be the same location as the shared location.

On Install Packages, the packages are installed, click the Finish button. Continue to the next section of this chapter entitled: Section 3. The section describes how to create a new profile. This profile will be used later in the installation process to create a web server and configure the plugin. Note: This document describes how to create a "standalone" application server.

For information on how to create a cell and managed node, refer to IBM's Infocenter:. You can choose to create your first profile now or after the remaining software packages have been installed.

If you create your profile now, you will need to manually define the web server before configuring the plug-in later in this chapter. As an alternative, you can use the advanced profile creation option to automatically create a web server, but this must be done after all of the other software components described in this guide are installed and updated to the correct level. This procedure assumes you are creating a new profile at this time so that you can verify your installation.

If you followed the last step in the preceding chapter entitled: Section 3. On Profile Creation Options, select the Typical profile creation radio button. Alternatively, you can choose Advanced profile creation to specify your own values for settings such as the location of the profile and names of the profile, node, and host.

On Administrative Security, clear the Enable administrative security checkbox. On Profile Creation Summary, review the information for accuracy and click the Create button. The progress screen is displayed. Optionally, on Profile Creation Complete, you can select the check box for Launch the First steps console. Verify that the installation verification completed successfully. You should get the message entitled: The installation verification is complete.

In order to install the IBM HTTP server, you must have the Supplemental images in the repository, as shown in the second line item in the following screen sample. Review the International Program License Agreement and click the radio button to accept the terms if you want to continue with the installation. Also note that the shared location that you defined when you installed the IBM WebSphere Application Server in the previous section cannot be changed.

The default port is If the default port is already in use, then change to another port that is available. On Install Packages, verify the installation completed successfully. You may want to click the link: View Log File. To install the plug-ins, continue to the next section entitled: Section 3. Verify the SDK level. At this point in the process in this guide, SDK 1.

Starting with WebSphere Application Server 8. The java 1. VDA registration. Use Search in Studio. User profiles. Citrix Insight Services. Citrix Scout. Configuration Logging. Event logs. Advanced configuration. PIV smart card authentication. Network analysis. Delegated Administration and Director. Secure Director deployment. Configure with Citrix Analytics for Performance. Site analytics. Alerts and notifications. Filters data. Historical trends. Troubleshoot deployments. User issues. Feature compatibility matrix.

Data granularity and retention. Troubleshoot Director failure reasons. Third party notices. WCAG 2. Document History. Aviso legal. Known issues in this release. Deprecation and removals. Use the Citrix Licensing Manager. Before you do that, we recommend that you familiarize yourself with the product:.

Ensure your setup meets the system requirements for all components. If Citrix Provisioning is not part of your deployment, you do not need to install or update it. The following components - at the versions given below - are compatible with LTSR environments. They are not eligible for the LTSR benefits extended lifecycle and fix-only cumulative updates. Citrix might ask you to upgrade to a newer version of these components within your LTSR environments.

Windows 10 bit is supported only for 18 months from the initial release of LTSR. XenApp and XenDesktop 7. For more information, see the Citrix Product Matrix. For your convenience, consider subscribing to the Citrix Workspace app RSS feed to receive a notification when a new version of Citrix Workspace app becomes available. The following features, components, and platforms are not eligible for LTSR lifecycle milestones and benefits.

Specifically, cumulative updates and extended lifecycle benefits are excluded. Updates to excluded features and components are available through regular current releases. The XenApp 6. This is helpful in deployments that contain large numbers of applications and Citrix group policies, lowering the risk of inadvertently introducing errors when manually moving applications and Citrix group policies to the new XenApp site. After you install the LTSR core components and create a site, the migration process follows this sequence:.

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This is the question that we posed to IBM and they could not give us any straight or knowledeable answers. Their first suggestion was to upgrade to 5. Perhaps it had some bug fixes we needed. Easy enough, we thought. Just install the update over the existing version and see what happens. The results were horrible. Even more inconsistences came up — even on machines that were reporting as expected. The answer from IBM — unstinall and reinstall everything again.

Eventually, we were able to get most machines to report correctly and started building a knowledge base on how to get things working. Eventually, Update 2 arrived and we tried again. Still no luck on a consistent method for getting all of the hardware status values. When 5. One would assume that VMware would react the same as RedHat 4. That would be true for 3. As administrators know, the latest updates to 3. We could not find an answer to that question, so we continued with our trial-and-error approach.

What we came up with is less than optimal, but it has consistently worked on every ESX 3. First, just install the 5. Remove any physical platforms or other objects for the server that might already exist in the Director console and reboot the server. Once the server is back up and running, run a discovery. Do not attempt to interrogate that server until the level-2 agent and physical platforms have been fully discovered.

This can be determined when the green question mark disappears from the object icon on the console. Right-click the level-2 agent and bring up the Hardware Status window. Now the fun begins!! At this point, we appear to have a consistent, working environment. Will a reboot lose information? When we have an issue arise, will it perform correctly? Will the next version of the software work and if so, will it work with my current platforms or will everything need to be upgraded?

As you can see, we have a lot of questions and I have not even begun to talk about the real features, functions and capabilities within IBM Director. This is the simple baseline stuff upon which to build a real management environment.

But if the foundation is built in quicksand, then it will crumble and fall and at a time when it is most needed. IBM has been asking me to discuss building a house of Tivoli on top of this stuff and I simply cannot take that step given the current situation. I have repeatedly told them that I cannot and will not move forward until I have a base built on bedrock.

However, I am not sure this will ever get me there. Perhaps we need to investigate OpenView or Unicenter. Time will tell, but for now IBM Director is off to a really bad start in our environment. I just came across your article. You have accurately articulated a lot of our frustrations with IBM Director. We started with version 4. Migrations and upgrades have been a disaster but in the end, we normally get a stable, environment that does provide effective monitoring. I was involved extensively with the 6.

We got so frustrated with 6. I had a question for you though…we had been running our Director server on Windows We moved our Director server to CentOS 5. Do you have any idea based on your redhat experience what the issue may be? Rob — seems we share similar experiences with the exception that you normally got a stable environment which I seem unable to do.

Your work on 6. Care to share more on your frustrations with 6. I have a TWiki site and perhaps we could collaborate together and with others? Let me know your interest. I am surprised by the lack of physical platforms you are having with CentOS 5.

However, the physical platform is discovered by communication with the level-2 agent. Stable environment means that IBM Director runs at least a week without the service dying. I found out there is no migration tool available yet.

I sent a bunch of logs off the the development team…nothing. The physical platform issue has me completely baffled. I also see ipmi starting up without issue too. The really odd thing is that there are no physical platforms listed at all. It is just like a problem they had under SUSE which was fixed by running a cimsubscribe routine. There is no such application in 5. I think it is time to get the support contract in place for our Director Server and get someone on the support team to take a look at it.