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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2


Sharing an agent depot across your environment

If your monitoring environment includes multiple monitoring servers (a hub monitoring server and remote monitoring servers), you can put the agent depot in a central location, such as a shared file system, and access the depot from all of the monitoring servers.

After populating the agent depot with either of the methods described in Populate the agent depot, use the following steps to share the agent depot:

  1. Open the KBBENV monitoring server configuration file located in the itm_installdir\CMS directory on Windows and the itm_installdir/tables/tems_name directory on Linux and UNIX.

  2. Locate the DEPOTHOME variable. By default, the agent depot is located in directory...

      itm_installdir/CMS/depot

    ...on Windows and itm_installdir/tables/tems_name/depot directory on UNIX.

  3. Type the path to the shared agent depot for the DEPOTHOME variable.

  4. Save and close the file.

  5. On UNIX or Linux only, add the same variable and location to the kbbenv.ini file located in itm_installdir/config/kbbenv.ini.

    If you do not add the variable to the kbbenv.ini file, it will be deleted from the KBBENV file the next time the monitoring server is reconfigured.

If you are using a Windows monitoring server connecting to a depot on another Windows computer, set the service ID for the Windows monitoring server to "Administrator." Also, instead of specifying a mapped drive letter for the path to the depot directory, use the UNC path (such as \\server\share).

Use the following steps to change the service ID:

  1. From the Control Panel, double-click Administrative Tools.

  2. Double-click Services.

  3. Right-click Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Svcs and click Properties.

  4. On the Log On tab, select This Account.

  5. Type Administrator in the This Account field.

  6. Type the password for the administrator in the Password field. Confirm the password by typing it again in the Confirm password field.

  7. Click Enable.

    If the Administrator user does not have Logon as a service right, you are prompted to add it.


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