Use the information in this topic to help make decisions about a new implementation of BMC TrueSight Operations Management, BMC TrueSight App Visibility Manager, or Borland Silk Performer Synthetic Transaction Monitoring. To plan the deployment of BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management, see Planning considerations and worksheets for Infrastructure Management .
If you are upgrading from BMC TrueSight App Visibility Manager (formerly BMC Application Diagnostics), see Upgrading. If you are upgrading from a previous version of BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management (formerly BMC ProactiveNet Performance Manager), see Upgrading BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management .
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Planning activity | Worksheet | References |
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Decide on your type of implementation based on the use cases and size your deployment based on the best practices for achieving a scalable environment. | Deployment sizing worksheets | |
Design your deployment architecture and determine the number of servers and other systems needed to support the deployment. | Deployment architecture worksheet | |
Identify the active applications to monitor or the application for which you want to generate synthetic transactions. | None | |
Identify the integrations that you want to enable. | Integration worksheet | Integrating |
Ensure all systems meet the system requirements | System requirements worksheet | |
Acquire the hardware to support the planned deployment. | Hardware worksheet | |
Review the network ports to determine whether the default ports will conflict with ports already used in your environment. | None | |
Plan who will administer the system and plan the approach to system authentication. Evaluate and plan user roles and permissions. | None | |
Review the performance benchmarks and tuning sections and record plans for tuning the system. | None | Performance benchmarks and tuning |
It is important to estimate the size of your deployment correctly because the steps to follow and the design elements vary depending on the size of the deployment. Review Sizing and scalability considerations to understand the capacity requirements.
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If you are also deploying BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management, read the Sizing and scalability considerations and best practices to understand the scaling and sizing requirements of the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management server, Integration Service, and monitoring solutions.
Characteristic | Value |
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Number of tenants (maximum is five) | |
Number of Infrastructure Management servers to connect | |
Number of App Visibility servers to connect (maximum of one App Visibility portal can be assigned to BmcRealm or a tenant) |
Characteristic | Value |
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App Visibility database size | |
Number of App Visibility agents | |
Number of synthetic TEA Agents | |
Number of App Visibility collectors |
After sizing the deployment, select the appropriate deployment and record the number of servers required to support the deployment. For guidance on selecting a deployment architecture, consult the Deployment use cases and best practices.
To plan the BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management deployment, see Planning considerations and worksheets for Infrastructure Management . To plan the BMC Atrium Single Sign-On deployment, see Planning for BMC Atrium SSO .
Plan your sources of active application data or end user experience monitoring. For information about deploying App Visibility agents, see Operations Management basic deployment with App Visibility Manager.
Application or end user to monitor | Monitoring source | App Visibility agent |
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To plan the BMC PATROL Agent deployment and other monitoring solutions, see Planning considerations and worksheets for Infrastructure Management
Plan your sources of synthetic transaction data. For information about deploying Synthetic TEA agents, see Operations Management basic deployment with App Visibility Manager and the Synthetic TEA Agent.
End user and application to monitor | Monitoring source | Synthetic TEA agent |
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Identify the integrations that you want to enable with the Presentation Server.
Integration and version | System requirements | Other considerations |
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To plan additional integrations with the Infrastructure Management server, see Planning considerations and worksheets for Infrastructure Management .
Consult the system requirements for each BMC TrueSight Operations Management system component to determine the values for your implementation.
Component | Value |
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Presentation Server system requirements | |
TrueSight console browser support | |
App Visibility system requirements | |
TEA Agent system requirements | |
Supported databases | |
Language information |
For information about BMC TrueSight Infrastructure Management system requirements, see System requirements and product compatibility.
Record how each system will be used, such as Atrium SSO, Presentation Server, App Visibility proxy, HA, DR, and so on, and the system requirements based on sizing or other deployment decisions. For BMC TrueSight App Visibility, see Sizing App Visibility and Synthetic TEA Agent components for recommended hardware configurations. For supported OS languages, see Language information.
Server 1 | |
Use | |
Environment sizing (small, medium, large) | |
Platform and language | |
RAM |
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Storage configuration | |
Server 2 | |
Use | |
Environment sizing (small, medium, large) | |
Platform and language | |
RAM | |
Storage configuration |
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Server 3 | |
Use | |
Environment sizing (small, medium, large) | |
Platform and language | |
RAM |
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Storage configuration | |
Server 4 | |
Use | |
Environment sizing (small, medium, large) | |
Platform and language | |
RAM |
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Storage configuration | |
Server 5 | |
Use | |
Environment sizing (small, medium, large) | |
Platform and language | |
RAM |
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Storage configuration | |
Server 6 | |
Use | |
Environment sizing (small, medium, large) | |
Platform and language | |
RAM |
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Storage configuration |
Implementation phases for Operations Management
Component installation worksheets