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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Use the tacmd createNode command
To deploy an OS agent from the command-line interface, use the tacmd createNode command.
For example, the following command deploys the UNIX OS monitoring agent on the server1.ibm.com computer in the /opt/IBM/ITM directory. The installation is done as the root user. The option property EXECPREREQCHECK=Y performs a prerequisite check on the agent.
tacmd createNode -h server1.ibm.com -d /opt/IBM/ITM -u root -o EXECPREREQCHECK=Y
The agent deployed using this command assumes the monitoring server to which it connects during normal operations is the monitoring server from which you run the command. The agent also uses the default settings for the communications protocol...
- IP.PIPE for protocol type
- 1918 for the port
To change these default values specify the -p parameter...
SERVER=[PROTOCOL://][HOST|IP][:PORT]
For example...
SERVER=IP.PIPE://server1.ibm.com:1918
The tacmd createNode command contains the optional –k group parameter. Passing the -k parameter when you remotely deploy an OS agent will execute the secureMain utility at the end of the deployment process to secure the IBM Tivoli Monitoring environment.
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