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IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3 Fix Pack 2
Automatically creating agent response files on Windows
You can have Tivoli Monitoring create the response files for you after configuring an agent.
This new feature vastly simplifies and speeds up the creation and customization of response files for agent installation and deployment. It also reduces the likelihood of user error when specifying their contents. The resulting response files can be used to either install or deploy similar agents across your environment.
The automatic generation of response files does not apply to multi-instance agents or to server components.
The agent must be successfully installed and configured prior to generating the response file. To have Tivoli Monitoring generate a response file, follow these steps:
- From the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services screen, right-click the agent whose configuration information you want saved, and select the Advanced → Utilities → Generate Response Files option from the pop-up menu. See Figure 1.
Figure 1. The Generate Response Files option
This option does not appear if the agent has not yet been configured.
- A window opens where you can specify the path into which you want the generated response files written; the default directory is ITM_Install_Home\response.
The newly generated response files are named silent_install_pc.txt and silent_deploy_pc.txt, where pc is the product code for the agent whose configuration parameters you want saved. See IBM Tivoli product, platform, and component codes for the list of product codes. If the directory you specify already contains files with these names, you are prompted to either replace them or specify new names.
Results
The installation and remote-deployment response files are created.
What to do next
When the installation and remote-deployment response files are available, you can use them to either install or remotely deploy identical agents across the IBM Tivoli Monitoring network:
- Edit the response file, and supply missing security parameters such as passwords and encryption keys.
For security reasons, the IBM Tivoli Monitoring encryption key entered during installation is not saved in the generated response file, and password parameters are blanked out. You must supply these values yourself.
- Install the agent.
- If you install it locally on the target computer, perform a silent installation using the generated response file for installation: silent_install_pc.txt.
- If instead you remotely deploy the new agent, use the generated response file for remote deployment: silent_deploy_pc.txt.
When the silent installation completes successfully, the new agent is installed and configured with identical settings as the first one.
Menu option Generate Response Files creates silent response files for the selected agent; such files contain all the installation parameters required to install the same agent with identical settings on other machines. However, the generated response files apply only to the Common Installer. They do not work with Solution Installer-based agent images.
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