CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG V1.0.0 Release Notes


Introduction

CommandPointTM for Unicenter TNG® V1.0.0 is an integration module (add-on) that provides Computer Associates® (CA) Unicenter TNG V2.1 access to basic NUMA-Q®-specific administrative capabilities and data.

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG provides the following features:

These Release Notes contain the following information:

These release notes do not describe how to use Computer Associates products. Refer to the Computer Associates documentation for that information.


Compatibility Information

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG V1.0.0 is compatible with CA Unicenter TNG V2.1.

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG V1.0.0 is compatible with the following software products running on Symmetry® and NUMA-Q® systems:


Installation

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG has two separate installation processes, one for DYNIX/ptx and one for Windows NT.


DYNIX/ptx Installation

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG V1.0.0 is installed on DYNIX/ptx using ptx/INSTALL. Perform the following steps to install and setup CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG:


ATTENTION

The TNG Event Management application must be started prior to starting tng_evtfwd.

After starting the TNG Event Management application, check the following directory for the TNG pipe file:

%TNGDIR%/opr/config/%hostname%/pipe

There should be only one pipe file. If there is more than one pipe file, you need to stop the TNG Event Management application, remove all the files under %TNGDIR%/opr/config/%hostname%/pipe, and restart the TNG Event Management application.



Modifying the Master Agent Configuration File

You need to modify the ptx/AGENT's master agent's configuration file /usr/agent/config/agt/snmpd.cnf so that it will be recognized by the TNG discovery process and be able to send traps to the manager node (on Windows NT) as follows:


Windows NT Installation

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG V1.0.0 is installed on Windows NT using Installshield.

Perform the following steps to install and setup CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG:


Launching CommandPoint Products

You can launch the NUMA-Q CommandPoint family of products (CommandPoint Admin, CommandPoint Clusters, and CommandPoint SVM) from CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG. You can launch these NUMA-Q applications from the TNGS 2D/3D map.

The CommandPoint Admin launching menu-item is accessible via the NUMA-Q Server Icon level. The CommandPoint Clusters and CommandPoint SVM launching menu-items are accessible via the Agent object icon that TNG has found and created.


ptx/Agent Integration

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG sends SNMP trap status to CA Unicenter TNG.

After installing CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG, you need to reset the Distributed State Machine. TNG will create the ptx, Clusters, and SVM Agent objects for a NUMA-Q Server if it finds that the sub agents are running on the server. It is important to make sure that the ptx, clusters, and SVM sub-agents are running on the NUMA-Q server before resetting the Distributed State Machine.

From the TNG Agent object icon, you can start the following:


EES Integration

CommandPoint for Unicenter TNG forwards EES events to TNG and the TNG console log.

After installing and setting up the TNG Event Forwarder (tng_evtfwd), errors and events will be forwarded to the Console log the same way that TNG collects events from syslog. There is no new interface on the manager node (the Windows NT console log); however, on the managed node (the NUMA-Q server) the tng-evtfwdd daemon should be running (see tng_evtfwd man page for more usage information).


ATTENTION

This daemon should be installed only if TNG Enterprise management was installed. It should be re-cycled (stop and start) after the TNG enterprise management is re-cycled.