Configuration

By default, the iStrobe installation, through BMC Compuware Web Products, sets up much of the application configuration. We recommend reviewing all the configuration parameters after initially installing the application. See the iStrobe online help for detailed configuration instructions.

After installing iStrobe, We recommend configuring the following settings:

• SMF Manager Settings (within General Configuration)
• Profile Email Settings (within General Configuration)

(Optional) You may also configure the following:

• Auto Delete
• SMF Data Management
• Profile History
• General Configuration
  • Profiles
  • Usage Data
  • BMC Mainview Explorer

Starting iStrobe

1. Open the iStrobe application by pointing your web browser to:
   <host address>:<application server port number>/istrobe
   
   • host address is the name of the server where you just installed iStrobe.
   • application server port number is the port on which the application server is listening.
2. Start iStrobe in your browser and click the iStrobe Administration button. The iStrobe Administration page appears.
3. Login to iStrobe by providing any user name. From the iStrobe landing page, click iStrobe Administration and provide the default password isadministration.

Default password

The default password for configuring iStrobe settings is isadministration. Enter the administration password and click OK.

SMF Manager settings configuration

SMF Manager Settings enables SMF data collection. For this functionality to work, you must perform the following steps:

• Configure associated fields in the Strobe Parameter data set, and set the SMF Port number to match that specified in iStrobe.
  • GM_MONITOR: Specifies whether to enable Global Monitoring. Must = YES for SMF processing.
  • GM_SMFDATA: Specifies that SMF Data is to be collected and sent to iStrobe. Must = YES for SMF processing.
  • GM_SMFHOST or GM_SMFIP: GM_SMFHOST indicates the iStrobe SMF server name. GM_SMFIP indicates the iStrobe SMF server IP address. Specify either GM_SMFHOST or GM_SMFIP. If both are specified, GM_SMFHOST is used.
  • GM_SMFPORT: Specifies the iStrobe SMF server port number. Must equal the SMF port number applied in iStrobe.
  • GM_TCPNAME: Specifies the TCP/IP job name of the IP Stack on the LPAR that Global Monitoring SMF is to use.
  • MNASPROCNAME: Specifies the Global Monitoring Address Space (MNAS) startup procedure name. This job comes up with Strobe and must be executing.

1. Start iStrobe in your browser and click the Administration button. The Administration page appears.
2. Click General Configuration. The General Configuration page appears.
3. In the SMF Manager Settings section, enable SMF data collection in iStrobe by placing a check mark in the Enable SMF data collection box. Enter an SMF port number, or use the default port number as provided. Click Apply to save and apply these settings.

Profile Email configuration

The Profile Email Settings option allows you to customize the email notifications received when either a measurement completes and a profile is created or when sending profile links by email. These settings are populated by default but can be customized.

Additional details for customizing email notifications are provided in the online help for iStrobe.