More are more customer are now changing the OS platform that their ITM is running on and they are doing this to upgrade the monitoring environment. While trying to do the migration they often have to run different versions of ITM monitoring on different platform. So what customers are looking for is to upgrade the ITM environment and at the same stage to re-platform from say SLES to Red Hat. There are many ways of doing this type of change. 1. A scripted install of the environment. 2. Migration using the ITM tacmd command to export and... [More]

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        Migrate-export command error SQLSTATE=42601 The migrate-export command can be used to take a backup of the TEPS database, and this should be done regularly. see this blog for information on that: https://www.ibm.com/developerworks/community/blogs/0587adbc-8477-431f-8c68-9226adea11ed/entry/migrate_export_and_backing_up_your_teps_database?lang=en   However had a report when the migrate-export  was done that the saveexport.sql file (which is the file that is created from the command) was empty.   Each time the command is run, the... [More]

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Problem After an upgrade from ITM 630 FP2 you are no longer able to login to TEP because TEPS has not completed its initialization due to problem with eWAS and/or IHS. Symptom TEP login fails with error: KFWITM402E Communication with Tivoli Enterprise Server could not be established TEPS never completes its startup sequence. Diagnosing the problem There can be different symptoms. A common one is that the TEPS never complete its initialization because it never complete startup of service 'JVM v2.0'. Last few lines of the TEPS RAS1 log... [More]

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                                              Introduction: The IBM Tivoli Monitoring application environment has many components and the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Services console (MTEMS) is a GUI based tool for  managing the components. Here are some of the things that can be easily done from the Console 1. Check if a component is running or not 2.Configure components 3.Change components trace options. 4. Use to change eWAS  password The MTEMS does run on the Windows OS, Unix and Linux. The console contained 10 column as shown below.          ... [More]

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Hello all,   So today we're looking at a slightly puzzling PMR. I had a customer who didn't have a Situation Event Console icon in their TEP client.                     We tried changing permissions for the users, logging in as different users, trying the desktop client, web client and JWS client, all to no avail.  We confirmed that the icons for it existed on the system and all the jars were present but we simply couldn't find this thing anywhere. Frankly finding Carmen... [More]

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If you're looking for an alternate console for viewing your Agents data connected to your TEPS, you may consider using the Smart Cloud Application Performance Monitoring User Interface (SCAPM UI) v7.7.   You can choose to install the SCAPM UI 7.7 product on your TEPS server itself or any other other supported-OS server in your environment and create a Data Provider to connect to either your local or remote TEPS.  Once connected, you will be available to view Agents data on your SCAPM UI 7.7 dashboard.  Some other benefits are: customizable... [More]

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Hello folks,   Another quick little ITM Blog for you all this month.   I recently had a PMR where a customer was attempting to install an eWAS update on AIX and they were running into problems with it, the install of the fix kept failing.  Even after we resolved the issue that had caused the initial failure, any subsequent attempt to apply the fix was still unsuccessful.    To resolve this, we had to remove all traces of the previous attempts before we could successfully complete the install.  We did this by... [More]

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Hi and Welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter March Edition In these monthly newsletters we are aiming to share with you our high value content, recent updates and any information you might have missed. It will all be hosted here with external links within the blog so please have a read. Newsletter Video If you prefer to watch and listen rather than read, we also have a video version of the Newsletter which can be found at the link below on our Youtube Channel.   Direct YouTube Link:  https://youtu.be/PEOEfUtIwCY   Top... [More]

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                                                                              Problem title: Unable to authenticate to the TEPS after port modification. Running the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server on Windows 2012R2 which is located in a management zone and accessing it via a system which only accept communication through well-known web-ports (80,443,8080,8443,...) unfortunately not the default portal port ( 5200,15201).                                                         ... [More]

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In this blog I will explore the data source connections used by ITM when running on a Windows host and take you through the steps I recently used to troubleshoot a problem connection between the warehouse proxy agent and a remote Tivoli Data Warehouse (TDW). One distinction that is important is if you are using a 64-bit Windows machine, you may have two sets of DSN (Data Source Names) defined for both 64-bit and 32-bit applications. If the HD agent is installed as a 64-bit application, you will want to focus on the DSN settings found when... [More]

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Hi and Welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter February Edition In these monthly newsletters we are aiming to share with you our high value content, recent updates and any information you might have missed. It will all be hosted here with external links within the blog so please have a read. Newsletter Video If you prefer to watch and listen rather than read, we also have a video version of the Newsletter which can be found at the link below on our Youtube Channel.   Direct YouTube Link:  https://youtu.be/-iPvlnt5GLI   Top Videos In... [More]

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ITM 6.30.07 and using the ORACLE SUN JRE 1.8 it could happen,  that the JAVA Webstart (JWS) is failing with an exception like:           JNLParseException[ Could not parse launch file. Error at line 36.]              at com.sun.javaws.jnl.XMLFormat.parse(Unknown Source)              at com.sun.javaws.jnl.LaunchDescFactory.buildDescriptor(Unknown Source)        Caused by: org.xml.sax.SAXParseException; lineNumber: 36; columnNumber: 40; The string "--" is not permitted within comments.            at... [More]

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What Each Package Contains   ITM 6.3 Fix Pack 7 has been released!  Is time to plan that upgrade, to get all the new features and fixes Here is all the info you need to download, review and plan you next upgrade,  Happy downloading!!! LIVE and direct Download links, APAR and packages all listed below!   All of the links in the below tables are live. They will take you directly to the download location of the package you require, or the IBM official technote for one of the APARs included in this fix pack (if you wish to know more about the... [More]

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Hi and Welcome to the IBM Monitoring Academy Newsletter January Edition In these monthly newsletters we are aiming to share with you our high value content, recent updates and any information you might have missed. It will all be hosted here with external links within the blog so please have a read. Newsletter Video If you prefer to watch and listen rather than read, we also have a video version of the Newsletter which can be found at the link below on our Youtube Channel.   Direct YouTube Link:  https://youtu.be/OZGIbu-YBo8  ... [More]

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