Configuring the event repository for IBM Control Center

For IBM® Control Center to receive Global Mailbox event notifications, you must configure the IBM Control Center event repository. You can specify the event repository URL and other IBM Control Center event notification properties in the global.properties file and in the mailbox.properties file.

About this task

To configure IBM Control Center event repository:

Procedure

  1. Stop your Global Mailbox Management Node (mailboxui).

    In the <B2Bi_install_dir>/MailboxUtilities/bin directory run ./stopGMAdmin.sh.

  2. In the <shared_files_dir>/config/ directory, locate the global.properties file.
    Important: The <shared_files_dir> is the base directory that you specified during installation.
  3. Open the global.properties file in a text editor.
  4. Specify values for the following list of properties:
    com.ibm.mailbox.controlcenter.event.url
    The URL of the IBM Control Center event repository in the format http://<cc-hostname>:<cc-port>/sccwebclient/events For more information, see http://iccserver:58082/sccwebclient/events
    com.ibm.mailbox.controlcenter.event.username
    The user name of the IBM Control Center event repository.
    com.ibm.mailbox.controlcenter.event.password
    The password of the IBM Control Center event repository.
  5. Save the global.properties file.
  6. Start your Global Mailbox Management Node (mailboxui)
    In the <B2Bi_install_dir>/MailboxUtilities/bin directory run ./startGMAdmin.sh.

What to do next

Configure the type, or types, of Global Mailbox events that you want IBM Control Center to monitor, which include external systems event notifications, heartbeat event notifications, and Global Mailbox event notifications. For more information, see the following topics: .