Planning

This section provides information related to planning to install or update Strobe.

Steps Involved

Order Strobe and its companion products, including the latest maintenance, via BMC Support. To understand system requirements and prerequisites, see Prerequisites.
Install Strobe according to the instructions provided in the product order email.
Follow the instructions in this guide to configure and deploy Strobe.

Milestones and Roles

Installation, configuration, verification, and deployment are done in six milestones. The rows in the following table identify the role or skill set required to perform each milestone. This makes it easier to know which people need to be involved at each milestone along the way and can allow certain tasks to be performed at the same time.

People Required for Each Milestone

Milestone	Companion Product Installer	Strobe Installer	z/OS System Programmer	z/OS Security Administrator	DBA
Installing-and-configuring-companion-products	ECC ♦
Installing-Strobe-by-using-SMP-E		♦
Configuring-after-installation		♦	♦	♦	Db2 ♦
Upgrading		♦	♦		Db2 ♦
Verifying-product-installation		♦
Deploying-Strobe-to-other-LPARs		♦

Checklist of Milestones and Tasks

Consult the Checklist of Milestones and Tasks involved in the installation. For convenience, you may want to print this page and check off the milestones and tasks to mark your progress through the installation.

Innovation Access Method (IAM)

See BMC Support for more information about the Innovation Access Method (IAM) supported products.

iStrobe

iStrobe software and hardware requirements are located in the BMC AMI Products for Web Installation and Configuration Guide.