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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Postinstallation steps for nonroot installations
If you used a non-root user to install a monitoring agent on a UNIX computer, complete the following procedure.
- Log in to the computer as the root user.
- Create a new group (such as itmusers) to own all of the files in the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation directory. For an AIX computer, use the mkgroup command. For Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX computers, use the groupadd command. See the documentation for your operating system for the complete syntax information.
- Add both the root and the nonroot user to the new group itmusers. For an AIX computer, use the chgrpmem command. For Linux, Solaris, and HP-UX computers, use the usermod command. See the documentation for your operating system for the complete syntax information.
- Run the following commands and verify that both the root and the nonroot user are in the itmusers group:
groups root
groups nonroot
- Run the following command to set the permissions and group ownership of CANDLEHOME:
CANDLEHOME/bin/secureMain -g itmusers lock
- Run the following command to update the system boot scripts:
CANDLEHOME/bin/UpdateAutoRun.sh
- Start the agent as described in Start the monitoring agents.
What to do next
- Whenever you update the agent, you must log in to the system as the root user and run the secureMain step again. If the agent is running:
- Stop the agent.
- Run secureMain as described in Step 5.
- Restart the agent.
- If you installed IBM Tivoli Monitoring using a nonroot user and did not run secureMain as described in Step 5, you must run secureMain before using the tacmd updateagent command to update the agent. If you do not run secureMain first, the update process will not complete.
- On AIX systems you should invoke the AIX slibclean command:
su -c "/usr/sbin/slibclean"
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Linux or UNIX: Installing a monitoring agent