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Before using the tool for the first time, complete the following steps:
- Run the appropriate SQL script to create the USER_TAB_COLUMNS view in
the APM and MDIST2 databases. This task is not required for Oracle databases.
The following scripts are provided:
- create_db2_mvs_user_tab_columns.sql
- create_db2_user_tab_columns.sql
- create_infx_user_tab_columns.sql
- create_ms_sql_user_tab_columns.sql
- create_syb_user_tab_columns.sql
- In the EtcTivoli directory, create the configuration file wcfgplng.ini to contain the following parameters:
- TmpDir : Temporary directory
- WorkDir: The main working directory of the tool
- WebBase: Directory in which the output HTML reports
are stored
- ExclusionList: The full path name of a file containing
a list of targets to be excluded from plan submissions.
- LogFile: The full path where the log file for the
tool is stored.
- LogLevel; Possible values are 0 (fatal errors),
1 (errors), 2 (warnings), 3 (information). 0 is the default.
- MailList: List of mail addresses for notifications.
- MailLevel: Possible values are 1 (high importance),
2 (normal). 1 is the default.
- MailHost: For Windows(R) only, the host name of the mail
server.
- HTTPBase: Link to the location on the HTTP server
to which the reports will be transferred.
Note:
The HTML reports
must be transferred from the WebBase directory to the HTTPBase after each iteration of the reporting script. You
can avoid this task by directly mapping the directory to the managed node
where the script is run or by configuring the managed node as an HTTP server.
- ActivityDelimiter: A character that is used in the
definition of an activity plan to separate the name of the activity to be
performed from the name of the software package. The default is %.
- SWDPackageCheck: Indicates whether the plan group
creation script should check the existence of software packages specified
in the script parameters. The values F, f, N, n, and 0 indicate that no check should be made. Any other value indicates that
the check should be made.
- ActiveLimit: The maximum number of activities that
can be current at any one time. The script that submits and tracks activity
plan groups considers this limit when submitting the activities included in
the plans.
- UnavailAsActive: This can be set to false (the default),
which can be indicated as F, f, N, n, or 0,
or true, which can be indicated as T, t, Y, y, or 1.
This parameter is used by the submission and tracking script when
it determines whether submitting an activity will cause the ActiveLimit to be exceeded. If the parameter is set to false, any activities
that have been submitted and not yet completed on targets that are either
unavailable or interrupted are not included in the number of current activities.
For example, ActiveLimit is set to 100 and 90 submitted
activities have not yet completed of which 10 are on targets that are not
available. In such a scenario, if this parameter is set to false, a maximum
of 20 activities can be submitted by the script, while if this parameter is
set to true only 10 can be submitted.
- In the directory specified as WorkDir, create the
subdirectories cfg and Targets.
- If required, create a file containing the list of targets to be excluded
from plan submissions and save it with the path name specified in the ExclusionList parameter.
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