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Note: The following recommendations should be considered when you are planning
TCP/IP ports for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication:
򐂰 If you changed ports 9558 or 9559 during the installation or changed other port
settings, make a note of the values to which these settings were changed.
򐂰 If you changed the port configuration of your storage controller, the ports are different.
򐂰 Your network configuration must allow for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for
Replication to send outgoing TCP/IP packets to the storage controllers. It is possible to
set a specific port number for your storage controller when you are adding the storage
controllers to Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication.
򐂰 Because there often are multiple applications that are running on a server, it is possible
that port conflicts might arise if other applications attempt to use the same ports that
Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication is using. You can find the port
numbers that are used on your system by running the netstat -an command.
򐂰 If firewalls are used in your configuration, make sure that none of these ports are
blocked. Ensure that not only is the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
server granted access to reach the other components, but that the other components
are granted access to reach the Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication
server.
򐂰 If you are running Windows Server 2008, you must configure the inbound and outbound
rules for Tivoli Storage Productivity Center for Replication. To create an outbound rule,
start the New Outbound Rule wizard from the Windows Firewall with Advanced Security
menu.
High availability configuration planning
If you are running in a high availability configuration in which you have Tivoli Storage
Productivity Center for Replication installed on two servers with one server running in active
mode and the second server running in standby mode, ensure that both servers can
communicate with each other and that they are authenticated through all firewalls. If the
firewall times out on either server, it requires reauthentication to open the communication
between the servers. The port that is used for high availability communication is specified in
Table 2-1 on page 42.
If you have a two- or three-site environment, your active management server can be placed in
primary or disaster recovery site. Where you place the active management server depends
on the type of sessions you are managing and the type of LAN/SAN infrastructure you have,
but we recommend placing the active server in primary site. For more information about the
high availability configuration, see Chapter 3, “General administration and high availability” on
page 61.
2.1.5 User accounts
The user name that you use to install Tivoli Storage Productivity Center must belong to the
operating system groups that are mapped to administrator role. The user that you specify as
the common user (which can be the same user that is used for installation) during the Tivoli
Storage Productivity Center installation must also belong to these groups. If you specify a
user that is not in an administrator role, your installation fails with the error that is shown in
Figure 2-1 on page 44.
Chapter 2. Planning and installation
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