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
ITM Agent(aka:TEMA) for Omnibus fails to install in $CANDLEHOME
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 [...]
ITM6.2 : TEPS reconfigure overwrites kfwenv variable
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 [...]
ITM6 – MTEMS Hangs
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 [...]
Scripts
Over the past 10 years of consulting, I’ve come up with various scripts that others would find useful: perl, shell and otherwise, including vbscripts for windows WMI and ITM5.x Resource Model visitTrees. As I get around to organizing this blog, I’ll make them available in some kind of structure. Go to the Scripts Tag
