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Add application support to the hub monitoring server
All monitoring agents require that application support files be installed on the monitoring servers (hub and remote), portal server, and portal desktop clients in your environment. Application support files contain the information required for agent-specific workspaces, helps, predefined situations, and other data.
When you installed the monitoring server on Linux or UNIX, following the instructions in Install the monitoring server, the application support files for all base monitoring agents and other supported agents were automatically installed on the monitoring server.This is different to installing the monitoring server on Windows, in that the Linux or UNIX installation always automatically installs the application support files for monitoring agents. This might affect self-describing agents. Check the monitoring server and portal server to ensure that self-describing agent products are installed as expected.
The base monitoring agents are the monitoring agents included on the IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation media. Enable the application support for those agents. The process of enabling application support is also referred to as activating or adding application support, and in the case of the monitoring server, as seeding the monitoring server.
See Install and enable application support and Configure application support for nonbase monitoring agents.
If you are running in a Hot Standby environment, shut down your standby hub monitoring server before completing this procedure. You may restart the standby hub monitoring server only after you have seeded the acting hub server.
Use one of the following procedures to add application support for Base monitoring agents to a monitoring server:
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Install the hub Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server