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VMWare/Linux Add New Disk CHEATSHEET

Add the disk via vSphere/VirtualCenter Reboot (if you have scsitools you can also run ‘rescan-scsi-bus.sh’ instead of rebooting Commands fdisk -l # Display new disks w/o partition tables fdisk /dev/<newdisk> n (for new partition) p (for primary partition) 1 (partition number) (keep the other values default) w (write changes) fdisk /dev/<newdisk> (change partition type) 8e [...]

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 [...]

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 Host Availability (ping attribute)

Synopsis A nice feature which isn’t publicized too much in ITM for Linux and Unix agents is the ping capability. They’re refrerred to as “Host Availability” for Linux and “Ping Attributes” for Unix Both will accept an input file containing a list of servers to “ping”, and both will return status and response time. Enabling [...]