Installing the desktop and Webtop tools

The desktop and Webtop tools are installed as described in the following sections.

Note: It is not necessary to have the desktop tools installed on the same host machine as the probe. You can manually copy the tools files described in Desktop and Webtop tools from the installation package to any machine running Windows, UNIX, or Linux, and install them as described below.

Installing the desktop tools on Windows operating systems

The following procedures must be performed on Windows machines that are running an Event List.

To install the desktop tools, use the following steps:
  1. Extract the desktop tool files from the probe installation package to the following directory on each target machine:

    %OMNIHOME%\probes\win32

    This location is hardcoded in the WindowsScomTools.sql file. If you want to use a different directory, you must change the hardcoded path in WindowsScomTools.sql.

  2. On each machine from which you want to run the tools, register the netcool_tivoli_socket.dll library with the operating system using the following command:

    %SYSTEMROOT%\system32\regsvr32 %OMNIHOME%\probes\win32\netcool_tivoli_socket.dll

  3. To install the tools, run the following command on one machine:

    %NCHOME%\bin\redist\isql.exe -U username -P password -S server_name -i WindowsSCOMTools.sql

Installing the desktop tools on UNIX and Linux® operating systems

The following procedures must be performed on UNIX or Linux machines that are running an Event List.

To install the desktop tools, use the following steps:
  1. Extract the desktop tool files from the probe installation package to the following directory on each target machine:

    $OMNIHOME/probes/solaris2

    This location is hardcoded in the UnixScomTools.sql file. If you want to use a different directory, you must change the hardcoded path in UnixScomTools.sql.

  2. On each machine from which you want to run the tools, edit TelnetSCOMProbe.pl to include the directory path to your Perl interpreter.

    The default is /usr/local/bin/perl.

    Note: TelnetSCOMProbe.pl assumes that the Firefox web browser binary is included in the PATH environment variable.
  3. To install the tools, run the following command on one machine:

    cat $OMNIHOME/probes/arch/UnixScomTools.sql | $OMNIHOME/bin/nco_sql -user username -password password -server object_server_name

Installing the Webtop tools on Windows operating systems

To install the Webtop tools, issue the following command from the %OMNIHOME%\probes\win32 directory:

"%WEBTOP_HOME%\waapi\bin\runwaapi" -file WindowsSCOMTools.xml

Installing the Webtop tools on UNIX and Linux operating systems

To install the Webtop tools, use the following steps:
  1. Edit UnixSCOMTools.cgi to include the following entries:
    • The directory path to your Perl interpreter.

      The default is /usr/local/bin/perl.

    • The OMNIHOME environment variable.

      The default is $OMNIHOME="/space/delphine/71/omnibus".

    • The password of the Webtop user.

      The default is $password="".

  2. From the $OMNIHOME/probes/arch directory, run the following commands in the order given:
    1. $WEBTOP_HOME/waapi/bin/runwaapi -file
    2. $OMNIHOME/probes/arch/UnixSCOMTools.xml chmod +x
    3. $WEBTOP_HOME/config/cgi-bin/UnixSCOMTools.cgi