A question was asked at today's NetView webcast by Tivoli Support, for
more information on the definition of an "ITM Server" with regard to the
new NetView itmquery command. As the questionner said, ITM does not
have this concept as such - there is a TMR Server, there are Endpoint
Gateways that have ITM installed which act as ITM Managed Node Gateways,
and there are Endpoints that run ITM Resource Models (RMs).
When you configure NetView for ITM integration, you specify an "ITM
Server", a login name, a password and a port number. The port number I
can cope with - that I believe is the port that oserv runs on -
generally 94. I have done very limited testing on the other parameters,
but I believe that these are my findings:
The "ITM Server" can be /any/ Tivoli Managed Node that has ITM
installed. Even if it is not the Endpoint Gateway for a particular
Endpoint, an itmquery --dump-endpoints seems to get all Endpoints for a
TMR, not just those attached to a gateway specified in
itm_servers.conf. This means you never need to specify anything other
than the TMR Server in itm_servers.conf. I am struggling to believe
this and have only tested in a very limited environment - anyone else
with any more evidence??
The User Id and password I believe have to satisy 2 criteria. The
userid and password must be able to be authenticated by the Operating
System of the hostname you supply. That user also has to be setup as a
Tivoli Administrator - not worked out all the Tivoli role implications
yet - only tried it with userids that correspond to the Root Tivoli
Administrator.
I also have to say I have seen lots of quirks around itmquery - command
hanging, dumping the usage part way through, not reporting services.....
For anyone who is interested, I have put a paper on the website behind
the NetView Tivoli User Group. You can get at it from the TUG site,
http://www.tivoli-ug.org/groups.php?groupid=151. Select the URL link
Follow the links to HintsAndTips -> ConfigMgmt. The paper discusses
servmon and itmquery. It includes a sample script that offers an
alternative to itmquery and it shows how to get service icons in a Unix
NetView (for those again who were at the webcast this afternoon....).
Please understand that this is a very new, best-efforts site. No
guarantees on anything - service, content, etc - however it does give an
opportunity to swap more detailed ideas than we can convey here. I
suggest questions and comments in general on this topic come back here
to nv-l; detailed discussions and updates on the paper and scripts
offered belong with the NV TUG. Feedback on the NV TUG site operation
to me personally.
Oh yes - the NV TUG site is only as good as it's contributions - from
everyone!
Cheers,
Jane
PS. For this afternoon's questionner who asked about Planet Tivoli and
Tivoli events, I have put links at the NV TUG site to those I know
about. Anyone who knows more - feel free to update.
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