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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
tacmd Command Line Interface
You can use the command line interface (CLI) in IBM Tivoli Monitoring to perform administrative tasks such as creating and managing a situation or starting and stopping an agent.
Tivoli administrative commands (tacmd) serve both UNIX-based and Windows operating systems. You do not need to launch or set up the shell environment. For example, you can enter the command tacmd help from any directory on the computer that hosts the monitoring server. The tacmd commands provide the following capabilities, among others:
- Obtain details about installed IBM Tivoli Monitoring components.
- Stop, start, restart, and configure monitoring agents.
- Create a node for deployment of monitoring agents.
For the complete list of tacmd commands, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Command Reference.
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Components of the monitoring architecture