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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2

Automatically creating agent response files on Linux or UNIX

You can have Tivoli Monitoring create the response files for you after configuring an agent.


This feature vastly simplifies and speeds up the creation and customization of response files for agent installation and deployment. It also reduces the likelihood of user error when specifying their contents. The resulting response files can be used to either install or deploy similar agents across your environment.

The automatic generation of response files does not apply to multi-instance agents or to server components.

The agent must be successfully installed and configured prior to generating the response file. To have Tivoli Monitoring generate a response file, invoke the itmcmd CLI command with the resp option:

where:

directory

is the name of the directory where you want the generated files stored. The default directory is itm_installdir/response.

pc

is the product code for the agent whose configuration parameters you want saved.
Possible errors are that either the directory path or the product code, pc, is invalid. In either case, an error message is displayed, and the response files are not generated.

When it completes, the itmcmd resp command creates these installation and remote-deployment response files:

When response files are available, you can use them to either install or remotely deploy, and then configure, identical agents across the IBM Tivoli Monitoring network:

  1. Edit the response files, and supply missing security parameters such as passwords and encryption keys.

    For security reasons, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring encryption key entered during installation is not saved in the generated response file, and password parameters are blanked out. You must supply these values yourself.

  2. Install the agent.

    • If you install it locally on the target computer, perform a silent installation using the generated response file for installation: silent_install_pc.txt.

    • If instead you remotely deploy the new agent, use the generated response file for remote deployment: silent_deploy_pc.txt.

  3. Use the configuration response file (silent_config_pc.txt), configure the newly installed agent.


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Perform a silent installation on a Linux or UNIX computer

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