Properties and command line options

You use properties to specify how the probe interacts with the device. You can override the default values by using the properties file or the command line options.

The following table describes the properties and command line options specific to this probe. For information about default properties and command line options, see the IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Probe and Gateway Guide, (SC23-6373).

Table 1. Properties and command line options

Property name

Command line option

Description

LogFile string

-logfile string

Use this property to specify the path to the file that contains the configuration information for the Simnet Probe.

The default is $OMNIHOME/probes/arch/simnet.def on UNIX platforms and %OMNIHOME%\probes\arch\simnet.def on Windows platforms.

TimeBetweenEvents string

-timebetweenevents string

Use this property to specify the time (in milliseconds) that the simulator waits between generating consecutive events.

The default is 1000.

N/A

-utf8enabled string

Use this command line option to control the encoding of data that is passed into, or generated by, the Windows version of the probe .

Set this command line option to TRUE to run the probe in UTF-8 mode.

The default is FALSE (which instructs the probe to use the default system code page).