Installation requirements for BMC AMI Ops Insight

Before you install the product, make sure that your environment meets the following requirements:

Product compatibility matrix

System requirements

Prepare your environment with the following system requirements:

Requirements for accessing the UI

• Chrome running on a Windows operating system
• iOS devices
  • Version: 14.4 or later
  • Size: 9.7" or larger
• Android devices
  
  • Version: 10 or later
  • Size: 10.5" or larger

USS parameter requirements

Prepare your USS environment with the following requirements:

Requirements for WLM 

All components of BMC AMI Ops Insight must run at a higher priority than what they are monitoring. We recommend that you run them in Importance 1.

For the optional detailed analysis to work properly under load, make sure that your BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure and monitor products are defined with the correct WLM Service Class. For more information, see BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure documentation .

Installation requirements

The Installation requirements are as follows:

• The user who runs the SMP/E install and post-install jobs must have an OMVS segment and RACF READ permission to the BPX.FILEATTR.APF and BPX.FILEATTR.PROGCTL resources in the FACILITY class to set USS's APF and PROGCTL extended attributes.
• Make sure the following data sets are APF authorized:
  
  • AMIHLQ.UBMCLINK
  • AMIHLQ.BMCLINK
  • AMIHLQ.BMCLIB  

Requirements for Db2 

BMC AMI Ops Insight requires Db2 SMF 100 records.

Requirements for RMF/CMF 

For BMC AMI Ops Insight to collect the required SMF data for 1.2 SYSPLEX KPIs, BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CMF or IBM’s RMF Monitor I (SMF 70-78) and Monitor III (SMF 74.2 and 74.4) must be active on the LPARs where your Db2 subsystems are running.

• SMF record types 74-2 (XCF Activity) and 74-4 (CF Activity) are optional, but RMF's Monitor III data gathering is highly recommended if you are using RMF to detect problems related to Coupling Facility (CF) and Cross-system Facility (XCF).

• CMF and RMF extractors produce identical type 70 through type 79 records. If you have CMF and RMF active simultaneously, make sure that only CMF or RMF is configured to write to the SMF data set, or SMF logstream, to prevent duplicate records in BMC AMI Ops Insight.

• Make sure that following control statements are enabled in CMF or RMF:

  SMF Record Types	CMF Control Statements	RMF I & III Control Statements	Comments
  SMF type 70-1	CPU	CPU	CPU statistics
  SMF type 71-1	PAGING	PAGING	Paging statistics
  SMF type 72-3	WORKLOAD	WKLD	Workload manager statistics
  SMF type 74-2	XCFDATA	CFDETAIL	XCF detail statistics
  SMF type 74-4	CFDATA	CFDETAIL	CF detail statistics
  SMF type 77	ENQUEUE	ENQ	Enqueue detail statistics
  SMF type 78-2	VSMDATA	VSTOR	Virtual storage statistics

• If you are using CMF, you must specify the following parameters in the REPORT statement of your CMFCPMxx member:

CPM,SMF=YES,SYNC=SMF,INTERVAL=SMF

Requirements for detailed analysis

(Optional) Prepare your environment as follows to enable the optional detailed analysis:

Requirements for graph functionality

(Optional) To install the Docker container for the optional graph functionality, one of the following items is required:

Requirements for Workload graphs functionality

(Optional) To install the Docker container for the optional Workload graphs functionality, the following items are required:

To specify a port for the Docker container

Enter the port number as follows:

To configure Docker properties for the BMC AMI Manager

1. Open the $AMI_INSTALL_PATH/aoidata/aoiinst/conf/amipdt.properties file.
2. Update the fields as follows:

• • postgre_host=<dockerhost>
    Here, <dockerhost> is the domain name of the optional graph component.
  • postgre_port=<PostgreSQL DB port>

  • DOCKER_HOST=<dockerhost>

  • DOCKER_PORT=<dockerport>

For more details, see Collecting data using the BMC AMI Ops Monitor for CMF Extractor  or your z/OS RMF documentation.

Requirements for BMC AMI Ops Insight playback docker container on local PC

(Optional) To install the BMC AMI Ops Insight Playback Docker container for playing back historical data on local PC, one of the following items is required: