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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
tacmd Command Line Interface
The Tivoli administrative commands (tacmd) command line interface (CLI) is used to perform administrative tasks such as creating and managing a situation or starting and stopping an agent. It can be installed on Windows and UNIX based operating systems with other IBM Tivoli Monitoring components or on an administrator's computer system.
Some of the tacmd commands send requests to the Hub monitoring server and other commands send requests to the portal server. Therefore, the tacmd CLI needs network access to the Hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server using the protocols and ports shown in Figure 1.
The tacmd CLI users also must specify a user ID and password that the Hub monitoring server or the portal server can authenticate depending on which command is issued.
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Determine where to place the Tivoli Monitoring components