Re: ITM TSM Agent

Fort McCoy is where I go.

Loren Cain

On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 11:01 AM, Jay Slay <[email protected]> wrote:

> Sounds very close to where I grew up during the summers….I know the St.
> Johns River between Lake George and Woodruff like the back of my
> hand…namely, Astor Florida….smack in the middle of the Ocala National
> Forest.  My favorite place on earth.
>
> Jay
>
>
>
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> On Nov 14, 2012, at 9:45 AM, Loren Cain <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Actually, I'll be in the middle, roughly between Ocala and Gainesville.
> Not much there except trees, trailers, and horse ranches. John Travolta
> does have a place a few miles down the road, and sometimes you can see his
> 707 parked there.
>
> Loren Cain
>
> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 9:34 AM, Gregory Mendes <
> [email protected]> wrote:
>
>>  Hey Loren,
>>
>> You must be in Melbourne or as I say it Melboring where I am.  LMAO
>>
>> Gregory R. Mendes
>> 770-317-8593
>>
>>
>> ------------------------------
>> Date: Wed, 14 Nov 2012 09:19:24 -0500
>>
>> Subject: Re: [TME10] ITM TSM Agent
>> From: [email protected]
>> To: [email protected]
>>
>>
>> Will do. I'll be finishing up all my VMware upgrades during the next
>> month or so, and will then start on the Tivoli rebuild. You've got me
>> curious now, though, so I may try to look at the TSM stuff next week while
>> I'm on vacation. I'll be in the Middle of Nowhere, Florida, where there is
>> literally nothing to do except sit in a rocking chair staring out the
>> window, so I might as well work on Tivoli stuff :)
>>
>> Loren Cain
>>
>> On Wed, Nov 14, 2012 at 8:33 AM, Jay Slay <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Loren,
>>
>> When you do your rebuild, let me know if you find an sk agent package
>> that will allow you to install only support files and the agent.  The
>> latest build out there that I (or IBM) could find contains an all-inclusive
>> ITM install bundled by the horendous monstrocity of fail that is the
>> "Deployment Engine".  You can't install support on an existing TEMS or
>> TEPS, and you can not remote deploy or upgrade agent bundles.  Your only
>> option is to install the agents locally, and install a fresh TEMS and or
>> TEPS from the Monitoring for TSM media.
>>
>> If you find a normal ITM style package for TSM, I would love to tell IBM
>> where it is.
>>
>>
>> Thanks
>>
>>
>>
>> On Nov 14, 2012, at 8:18 AM, Loren Cain <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> Back in 2010, I installed the 6.2 version of the 'sk' agent on a number
>> of Linux RHEL 5.2 32-bit systems. I performed the installation as a
>> non-root user, and had no problems that I can recall (there are no problems
>> mentioned in my build notes). The agent installation was performed using
>> the silent method, as were the TEMS and TEPS support installations.
>>
>> In my case, all my TSM servers live in HA clusters, so I install the sk
>> agents on the hub TEMS servers and point them at the TSM service IP
>> addresses.
>>
>> In the past, I have gone down more or less the same road Jay did, writing
>> custom UA's, and before that, custom ITM5 resource models, for TSM
>> monitoring. For me at least, the sk agent worked well enough that I didn't
>> need to do that this time.
>>
>> I will be rebuilding all my Tivoli infrastructure from scratch after the
>> first of the year, so I'm sure I will be revisiting the issue then...
>>
>> Loren Cain
>>
>>
>> On Tue, Nov 13, 2012 at 3:44 PM, Loren Cain <[email protected]> wrote:
>>
>> I have done it a number of times, but not in the last couple of years. I
>> do not recall it being very difficult, once you locate the agent
>> installation directories within the larger package. I am out of the office
>> at the moment, but can lok into it more when I get home tonight.
>> Loren Cain
>> On Nov 13, 2012 3:13 PM, "Gregory Mendes" <[email protected]>
>> wrote:
>>
>>  Hello All,
>>
>> Is there a hack out there for someone trying to install the TSM Reporting
>> and Monitoring Agent into an already existing ITM infrastructure?  From
>> what I've read and what I've tried, the only way seems to be creating a TSM
>> Reporting and Monitoring server.  I'm just trying to take that TSM
>> Reporting and Monitoring Agent and add application support to my existing
>> ITM infrastructure.
>>
>> I've installed that agent on a TSM server and it starts and runs fine and
>> even connects to the existing ITM infrastructure.  However, when I try to
>> add support, nothing happens.
>>
>> Regards,
>>
>> Gregory R. Mendes
>> Tivoli Architect/Tools Specialist
>> Mendes, Inc.
>> Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.3 Certified
>> 770-317-8593
>>
>>
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