In some cases the TEPS navigator will hang on the “more” nodes, I haven’t bothered trying to run down the how and why, I just want to see all child-nodes when I select a parent-node. Here’s how you do it… Add the following lines to the teps.jnlpt, then rebuild the teps.jnlp <property name=”cnp.http.url.host” value=”$HOST$”/> <property [...]
ITM Situation Rename — BEWARE
As of ITM 6.2.1, there is a perceived capability to now rename situations within the editor. However, the rename is actually a new attribute called ‘Full Name’ and only changes the TEPS display name for the situation; the EIF will still send the original situation name. IBM responds this is “working as designed” — a [...]
ITM6 : Take Action : Remount Stale remote filesystems
Situation An ITM6 Unix (UX) or Linux (LZ) agent detects that its remote filesystems are unavailable, a “stale” connection. Automate an action to remount it if possible Methodology Two (2) ITM situations are created where detects the mount point has become stale the other is triggered by the “correlated situation” condition of #1 being [...]
ITM Logs Timestamp Conversion
ITM v6 log files use a hexadecimal timestamp (to save space? who the hell knows), which adds unnecessary effort when the reason you’re looking at the logs is to determine an issue in the first place. In any case… Here’s the script I wrote when I first encountered the nonsense in ITM v6 logs a [...]
ITMv6 Process string length limitation
My PMR to IBM Tivoli support I’d be surprised if there wasn’t already an ER for this, but if you don’t mind, please submit one. Do you know if anybody else has asked or criticized this major limitation. Its hard to believe that there isn’t something that emulate what a simple one line script would [...]
IBM Tivoli Monitoring Product Codes
Obtaining Product Codes for IBM Tivoli Monitoring (ITM v6) Local method: Parse the proddsc.tbl file on a UNIX/Linux system to get the list by doing this: UNIX awk -F\| ‘/^[^*#]/ {print $1,$2}’ ${CANDLEHOME}/registry/proddsc.tbl | sort | uniq Or, IBM’s site http://www-01.ibm.com/support/docview.wss?rs=2366&context=SSZ8F3&dc=DB520&dc=DB560&uid=swg21265222&loc=en_US&cs=UTF-8&lang=en&rss=ct2366tivoli
