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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

Dynamically updating the self-describing installation options

You can specify what self-describing enabled products and versions are allowed to be installed on your monitoring server and portal server by the automatic self-describing agent process while your hub monitoring server is running.


The hub monitoring server must be started. The following configuration commands can be issued regardless of whether your self-describing capability is enabled or disabled (KMS_SDA=Y|N). The configuration settings you specify are stored and then implemented once self-describing is turned on with variable KMS_SDA=Y. See "Dynamically controlling the hub monitoring server self-describing agent capability" in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide.


Procedure

  1. Suspend the self-describing capability (without recycling the hub monitoring server) using the tacmd suspendSda command. This command ensures that no self-describing installations take place while you are updating the options.

  2. Run one of the following commands:

    tacmd addSdaInstallOptions

    Specify the products and versions that can be installed by the self-describing agent facility.

    tacmd editSdaInstallOptions

    Modify an existing product version configuration, or change the default self-describing agent installation behavior.

    tacmd deleteSdaInstallOptions

    Remove a specific version configuration, or remove all versions for a product.

    tacmd listSdaInstallOptions

    Display the existing self-describing agent installation configurations from the hub monitoring server.
    See the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Command Reference for syntax and examples.

  3. Resume the self-describing capability (without recycling the hub monitoring server) using the tacmd resumeSda command.


Results

Your installations take place only on the new products of versions you specified once self-description is enabled by setting the variable KMS_SDA=Y.


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