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Planning

This section provides information related to planning to install Session Monitor.

Steps involved

  1. Order Session Monitor and its companion products, including the latest maintenance, from BMC Support.

  2. Complete each of the tasks to:
    1. Make sure that companion products are installed and configured with the latest maintenance and that the license for Session Monitor is imported.
    2. Perform the SMP/E installation of Session Monitor according to BMC Installer Mainframe Products SMP/E Installation.
    3. Implement the PARMLIB.
    4. Configure Session Monitor for new installation.
    5. Perform additional configuration for Workbench for Eclipse and other features.
    6. Verify product installation.
    7. Deploy Session Monitor to additional LPARs.
    8. Troubleshoot any problems with the installation.

Related topics

Checklist-of-tasks

Troubleshooting

Tasks and roles

Installation, configuration, verification, and deployment are done in a series of tasks. The rows in the following table identify the role or skill set required to perform each task. This makes it easier to know the personnel's need to be involved at each task along the way. With the proper planning, you might be able to have certain tasks performed at the same time.

Personnel required for each task

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Companion Product Installer

Session Monitor Installer

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Checklist of tasks

To keep track of your progress, you might want to print the Checklist-of-tasks, then check off each task as it gets completed.

 

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