IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

Controlling UISolutions imports

When a dashboard application such as IBM® Infrastructure Management Dashboards for Servers is launched, the dashboard application sends a request to the dashboard data provider to import the application's UISolutions. UISolutions in the dashboard data provider define the characteristics of what data the dashboards can display. The import occurs once per dashboard application and it happens automatically. When a dashboard application is updated and contains updated UISolutions, the import also happens automatically. You can disable the importing of UISolutions all together after you have installed and launched all of your dashboard applications, or you can control which users can import UISolutions by configuring the portal server.

About this task

If you disable UISolutions altogether, you must re-enable UISolutions importing when you either install a new dashboard application or update an existing dashboard applications in IBM Dashboard Application Services Hub. After the dashboard application install or update is complete, the dashboard application has been launched, and you have verified that data can be displayed, then you can disable importing of the UISolutions again.

If you want to control which user can import UISolutions then be aware that new or updated dashboard applications with UISolutions will not be usable until the user specified in the portal server's environment file launches the dashboard application.

The KD8_VM_IMPORT_ID variable is optional and not set by default, which means any dashboard user that has been authenticated can trigger the request to import UISolutions when they launch the dashboard application.

Procedure

Open the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal Server environment variable file.
install_dir\CNPS\kfwenv

install_dir/config/cq.ini
Set the KD8_VM_IMPORT_ID environment variable.
To control which user is allowed to do the import, set this variable to a particular ID such as KD8_VM_IMPORT_ID=user1.

To disable all users from doing an import of UISolutions, set KD8_VM_IMPORT_ID=$nouser@ or any name that you know does not match a Dashboard user ID.
Restart the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server to implement the changes.

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