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 accomplish.

In the ER, I would expect support for perl regex pattern, where patterns
can be indexed to return the matching index as a displayable value.

match process string against /opt/IBM*\s+(\S+java*\)s+server1 pattern and return pattern matching (\S+java*\)

IBM’s Response

Yes, we already have an ER opened for this case, please note down the
request number: MR0108092213

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ITM 6 has limitations when monitoring processes.

Customer needs to monitor processes with very long names, in this case
the WebSphere NodeAgent process with 4999 characters. The unique string
“nodeagent” is at the very end of the process name and the Unix OS agent
cannot find this process: The attribute command_name is limited to 100
characters and for command_name_U to 768 Bytes.
Cust needs a possibility to monitor such long process names using the
standard ITM 6 OS agent.

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It is already a recognized request. You can follow up on the progress of
the request with your IBM Rep. Please let me know if you have any other
questions.