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 TDW Schema
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 [...]
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 – 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 [...]
ITM6 Situations as TEC Events
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.
Linux Filesystem Usage “Trick”
Command: du (mneumonic: disk usage) How can one get the disk usage of a directory, but didn’t want the directories which are mountpoints of other filesystems… The disk usage calculation can be limited to the actual mounted partition with the -x flag. tivoli@tivdzl01:~> df -m Filesystem 1M-blocks Used Available Use% Mounted on /dev/dg_system/lv_root 20564 11362 8158 59% / [...]
