I was experimenting with WAMP on my laptop, not a big deal in itself, but when I rebooted the Apache server failed to start.

Event logs showed something else had already been binded to port 80.

Quick Fix was to determine which PID had it by running the following:
netstat -ano
From there you can use task manager, determine the conflicting process, kill the PID.

(If you had CYGWIN installed)
netstat -ano | grep :80
ps -Wef | grep <pid> # To determine the process
kill -9 <pid>

Not that there is a lot to the TDW layout, but knowing the schema assists in the documentation process and developing queries and procedures of the TDW (Tivoli Data Warehouse).

Make short work of this by using the opensource tools of SchemaSpy and Graphviz

SchemaSpy is a jar file that supports over 21 DBs, including the 3 supported by ITM TDW (Oracle, Sybase, MSSQL) and is run from the command line to generate a html directory of content about the interrogated schema.

Par for the course with IBM Tivoli’s porting of aqcuired products and their attempt at integrating them together, the ITM Agent for the a Netcool’s Omnibus  does not install in the expected $CANDLEHOME.

IBM has opened an enhancement request based on the PMR I opened. My workaround below.

Problem title
TEMA for Omnibus does support optional $CANDLEHOME paths
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The ‘um_cleanup’ script that comes with ITM6 Universal Agent I’m convinced was written by an intern or co-op who just learned the basics of scripting.

I “rewrote” the whole darn thing with the following comments and syntax:

um_cleanup_jds.ksh -h
USAGE: um_cleanup_jds.ksh [UA|CMS|CNPS|ALL]


ITM 6.2 FP1 contains several new and changed T/EC class changes, ranging from new classes, new slots, and only ONE new slot (omnux_value replacing kux_value).

**I have not seen an ITM event containing kux_value nor omnux_value, but to be safe, I added the old ‘kux_value’ slot to the kux.baroc file.

TOTAL: 22 baroc files

Reference: http://help.mosso.com/article.php?id=180

Your script is calling for the “REMOTE_ADDR” and receives the IP of a server in front of one of our back-end servers. The web facing server is then passing the scripts output without giving the expected REMOTE_ADDR of the visitor. In order for your scripts to recognize that they are on a cluster and log the correct IP of your visitors, you will need to replace and add the code below.

For PHP:
Locate any lines of code that are similar to this snippet of code,
$_SERVER['REMOTE_ADDR'];
And replace it with this snippet of code,
$_SERVER['HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP'];

For ASP:
Locate any lines of code that are similar to this snipper of code,
Request.ServerVariables(“REMOTE_ADDR”)
And replace it with this snipper of code,
Request.ServerVariables(“HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP”)

My fix for this required a unix shell (if you’re on a Windows look at installing cygwin on your system.

# Ftp your web content down to your local system

$ for file in `find <path_to_files> -exec grep -l REMOTE_ADDR {} \;`; do base=`basename $file`; sed ’s/REMOTE_ADDR/HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP/g’ $file > /tmp/$base; grep HTTP_X_CLUSTER_CLIENT_IP /tmp/$base >/dev/null 2>&1 && grep REMOTE_ADDR $file && echo “Updated $base” && mv
/tmp/$base $file; done

# Then simply upload the changed files to your system.

Not all of them mind you, but some important ones none-the-less:

• KFW_STARTJVM=N
• KFW_USE_EMBEDDED=Y
• KFW_EWAS_SERVER_PID_FILE=C:\IBM\ITM\CNPSJ\profiles\ITMProfile\logs\ITMServer\ITMServer.pid
• KFW_EWAS_STARTSERVER_SCRIPT=C:\IBM\ITM\CNPSJ\profiles\ITMProfile\bin\startServer.bat
• KFW_EWAS_STOPSERVER_SCRIPT=C:\IBM\ITM\CNPSJ\profiles\ITMProfile\bin\stopServer.bat

I verified the following by modifying all the variables in my %CANDLEHOME%\CNB\kfwenv file where numerical values like ports and max where incremented by one, and the string vlaues had _XXX_ inserted

The modified kfwenv was backed up, then I reconfigured the TEPS and ran a diff on both files, and the above variables are the resulting default values.

This is a brain-dead situation, but I’ve been bit by the “ITM Connector” dialog box hiding behind the MTEMS configuration window.

Anytime you reconfigure the TEPS (Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server) via MTEMS (Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring), sometimes that little box just hangs back there until you move the MTEMS window.

Very innocuous problem that isn’t really a problem, just an annoyance.

Tivoli MTEMS not responding or hangs

Regular expression predicates were introduced as of T/EC 3.7 that make the task of string pattern matching and manipulation a clean and intuitive procedure.

In a nutshell, there are basically 7 predicates, where

• one is used to define a regular expression pattern
• two are to perform a substring subsitition
• the remaining four are for pattern matching.

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Based on http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v24r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itm.doc/itm_admin_6284.htm

The following table describes the meaning of the situation event statuses and the setting of the common slots in the generated Tivoli Enterprise Console event.
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