Installing probes on Netcool/OMNIbus V7.4

If you are running Netcool/OMNIbus V7.4, all probes are installed using the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus installer. You can install the probe using the installation wizard, using a text-based installer (console mode), or using settings predefined in a text file (silent mode).

To install the probe, use the following steps:

  1. Make a backup of any existing configuration files that you might already have for an earlier version of the probe and that you want to retain.
  2. If you are installing a 32-bit probe on a 64-bit platform running Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V7.4.0, install the 32-bit versions of any operating system libraries that the probe requires.
  3. Extract the contents of the installation package to a temporary location.
    Note: The package contains the probe itself and all non-third party dependencies. You will need to download and install separately any third party dependencies that the probe has. Any third party dependencies that the probe may have are listed in the summary table of its reference guide.
  4. Install the probe using one of the following methods:

    Installation wizard: Use the following steps:

    1. Run the following command:
      • $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_install_integration
      • %NCHOME%\omnibus\install\nco_install_integration
    2. When the wizard runs, specify the location of the probe to be installed. This location is the directory containing the README.txt file in the extracted package.
    3. Accept the license conditions.
    Console mode: Use the following steps:
    1. Run the following command:
      • $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_install_integration -i console
      • %NCHOME%\omnibus\install\nco_install_integration -i console
    2. When the text-based installer runs, specify the location of the probe to be installed. This location is the directory containing the README.txt file in the extracted package.
    3. Accept the license conditions.

    Silent mode: Use the following steps:
    1. Create a text file named response.txt that contains the following settings:
      PROBE_OR_GATE_LOCATION=README_directorypath
LICENSE_ACCEPTED=true

      Where README_directorypath is the path to the directory containing the README.txt file in the extracted package.

      Note: When specifying the path in the response file, use two backslashes (\\) as the path separator because a single backslash (\) is interpreted as an escape character. For example: C:\\IBM\\tivoli\\netcool.
    2. Run the following command:
      • $NCHOME/omnibus/install/nco_install_integration -i silent -f response_path/response.txt
      • %NCHOME%\omnibus\install\nco_install_integration -i silent -f response_path\response.txt

      Where response_path is the full path to the response.txt file.

In each case, the probe is installed in the following directory:

  • $NCHOME/omnibus/probes
  • %NCHOME%\omnibus\probes\win32