Conventions used in this guide
All probe guides use standard conventions for operating system-dependent environment variables and directory paths.
Operating system-dependent variables and paths
All probe guides use standard conventions for specifying environment variables and describing directory paths, depending on what operating systems the probe is supported on.
For probes supported on UNIX and Linux operating systems, probe guides use the standard UNIX conventions such as $variable for environment variables and forward slashes (/) in directory paths. For example:
$OMNIHOME/probes
For probes supported only on Windows operating systems, probe guides use the standard Windows conventions such as %variable% for environment variables and backward slashes (\) in directory paths. For example:
%OMNIHOME%\probes
Operating system-specific directory names
Where Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus files are identified as located within an arch directory under NCHOME or OMNIHOME, arch is a variable that represents your operating system directory. For example:
$OMNIHOME/probes/arch
The following table lists the directory names used for each operating system.
Operating system | Directory name represented by arch |
---|---|
AIX® systems |
aix5 |
Red Hat Linux® and SUSE systems |
linux2x86 |
Linux for System z |
linux2s390 |
Solaris systems |
solaris2 |
Windows systems |
win32 |
OMNIHOME location
Probes and older versions of Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus use the OMNIHOME environment variable in many configuration files. Set the value of OMNIHOME as follows:
- On UNIX and Linux, set
$OMNIHOME
to $NCHOME/omnibus. - On Windows, set
%OMNIHOME%
to %NCHOME%\omnibus.