IBM Control Center Director Support
Control Center Director installs, upgrades and applies maintenance to Connect:Direct through a Connect:Direct Agent instance.
Configuring Connect:Direct for Server and Upgrade Management
About this task
Control Center Director upgrades and applies maintenance to Connect:Direct through a Connect:Direct Agent instance.
- Download the required maintenance version of Connect:Direct software. For more information go to Fix Central.
- Certificate-based authentication is enabled when you install and configure Connect:Direct Secure Plus for UNIX.
Procedure
Configuring Connect:Direct for License Governance
Set the following parameters (initparms) to automate license metrics collection from Connect:Direct for UNIX.
Parameter (initparm) | Possible Values |
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A non-negative integer
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- A warning message is logged if the number of Netmap entries in
netmap.cfg
exceeds 2. -
A warning message is logged when a transfer is initiated with third or later remote entry, in order of appearance.
- The number of concurrent sessions is restricted to 2 or fewer
Configuring Connect:Direct after New Install
You can initiate the fresh installation of Connect:Direct servers from the Control Center Director. Once
new installation of Connect:Direct server is done from Control Center Director, set the
following parameters(initparms) in the install.agent record
of the
initparm.cfg
file:
Parameter (initparm) | Definition | Possible Values |
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agent.enable |
Use to enable/disable the agent |
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osa.rest.url |
Use to connect Connect:Direct Agent with Control Center Director. |
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osa.disable |
Allows disabling OSA without deleting osa.rest.url |
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agent.installation_id |
Identifies the Connect:Direct installation package installed by Control Center Director | Informational only, managed by CCD. |
Configuring Connect:Direct for Custom Locations of Connect:Direct Backups and Installation Programs
Use the following parameters to set the Connect:Direct, Agent backup and installer locations to be used before an upgrade.
Parameter (initparm) | Definition | Possible Values |
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cd.backup |
Set this parameter in |
Note: The path should be an absolute path, not same as installation directory. It should not be a
sub directory of <installation directory> or agent.backup path.
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agent.backup |
Set this parameter in |
Note: The path should be an absolute path, not same as installation directory or cd.backup path. It
should not be a sub directory of <installation directory> or cd.backup path.
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emergency_restore.installers |
Set this parameter in |
Note: The path should be an absolute path.
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installer.location |
Set this parameter in |
Note: The path should be an absolute path.
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