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Define hubs
The procedure below describes how you can use the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services to activate the SOAP server and define the hubs with which the SOAP server communicates.
Use the following steps to define SOAP hubs:
Procedure
- On the computer where the hub monitoring server is installed, start Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services:
- Click Start → Programs → IBM Tivoli Monitoring → Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services.
- or Change directory to install_dir/bin and enter: ./itmcmd manage
To use the command-line interface, see Define hubs on Linux and UNIX using the CLI.
- Right-click Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and click Reconfigure.
- Select or clear the Security: Validate User field.
- Open Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services.
- Right-click Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server.
- Click Advanced → Configure SOAP server Hubs.
- Click Add Hub. The Hub Specification window is displayed.
- Select the communications protocol to be used with the from the Protocol menu.
- Specify an alias name in the Alias field (for example: HUB2). Alias names can be a minimum of 3 characters and a maximum of 8 characters.
- Perform one of the following steps:
- If you are using TCP/IP or TCP/IP Pipe communications, complete the following fields:
TCP/IP Fields in Hub Specification Dialog
Field Description Hostname or IP Address The host name or TCP/IP address of the host computer. Port The TCP/IP listening port for the host computer.
- If you are using SNA communications, complete the following fields:
SNA Fields in Hub Specification Dialog
Field Description Network Name Your site SNA network identifier. LU Name LU name for the monitoring server. This LU name corresponds to the Local LU Alias in your SNA communications software. LU6.2 LOGMODE Name of the LU6.2 logmode. Default: CANCTDCS. TP Name The Transaction Program name for the monitoring server.
If you are connecting to a remote monitoring server, the protocol information must be identical to that used for the hub monitoring server.
- Click OK. The server tree is displayed.
- Define hubs on Linux and UNIX using the CLI
Define the SOAP server hubs on a Linux/UNIX system using the CLI procedure.
Parent topic:
Configure Tivoli Monitoring Web Services (SOAP server)