IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

sitconfuser

Description

Use the sitconfuser.sh command on UNIX systems and the sitconfuser.cmd command on Windows systems to add, update, or delete monitoring server information for event synchronization.

After you change the configuration of the event synchronization, you must manually stop and restart the Situation Update Forwarder process. See the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Installation and Setup Guide for information.

CLI syntax

sitconfuser.sh add
                 serverid=server
                 userid=user
                 password=password
                 pathc=path_to_conf_file
                 type=OMNIBUS

sitconfuser.sh update
                 serverid=server
                 userid=user>
                 password=password
                 pathc=path_to_conf_file
                 type=OMNIBUS

sitconfuser.sh delete
                 serverid=server
                 pathc=path_to_conf_file
                 type=OMNIBUS

where:
add
Adds a new monitoring server to the list of monitoring servers that forward events to Tivoli® Netcool/OMNIbus.
update
Modifies the user ID or password for an existing monitoring server.
delete
Removes a monitoring server from the list of monitoring servers that forward events to Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
serverid=server
The fully qualified hostname of the monitoring server. Should be equivalent to what the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server sends as the cms_hostname attribute in an event.
userid=user
The user ID to access the computer where the monitoring server is running.
password=password
The password to access the computer where the monitoring server is running. Note that the password is required. If your monitoring server is not configured to authenticate SOAP users, specify any non-blank string for the password.
pathc=
The location where the configuration file will be placed.Specify the path to the <Event_Sync_Install_Dir>/etc directory where <Event_Sync_Install_Dir> is the directory where the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Event Synchronization component is installed.
type=OMNIBUS
Required because this command is specific to Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.

CLI example

The following example adds the itm17 monitoring server: 
sitconfuser.sh add serverid=itm17.ibm.com userid=admin password=acc3ssing 
pathc=/opt/IBM/SitForwarder/etc type=OMNIBUS

Related commands

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