Advanced properties

Error handling

You can troubleshoot problems with the gateway by consulting error messages. To help you do this, the gateway has configurable error handling.

Error handling is provided by the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Gateway Toolkit (NGTK) library. To specify that the NGTK library logs debug messages, set the Gate.NGtkDebug property to TRUE.

You can specify which debug messages are included in the debug files by using the Gate.Mapper.Debug, Gate.Reader.Debug, and Gate.XMLGateway.Debug properties. You can set these properties to TRUE or FALSE as appropriate.

Process Agent control

You can control how the gateway runs by using Process Agent control.

The gateway can be run under Process Agent (PA) control. The Gate.PAAware property indicates whether the gateway is PA aware. The Gate.PAAwareName property indicates which PA is running the gateway.

These properties are maintained automatically by the PA server and provide information only. Do not change these properties manually.

Authentication

Use the Gate.UsePamAuth property to specify how the gateway authenticates users.

Either standard UNIX authentication or PAM authentication can be used with the ObjectServer gateway. By default, the gateway uses standard UNIX authentication. To use PAM authentication, set the Gate.UsePamAuth property to TRUE.