Configuring IBM Connect:Direct support for Control Center Director
Control Center Director installs, upgrades and applies maintenance to Connect:Direct through a Connect:Direct Agent instance.
After you have upgraded IBM® Connect:Direct® for UNIX and IBM Connect:Direct for Windows to the required maintenance level complete the following procedures to ensure Connect:Direct for UNIX and Windows servers are discovered dynamically by Control Center Director.
IBM Sterling Control Center Director uses Certificate-based authentication to authenticate itself to a Connect:Direct® server. For more information see, Certificate-based Authentication.
Controlling Discovery of Connect:Direct Server
Following properties (from engine.properties) can help you control how Connect:Direct
Server is discovered on Director.
CD_DISCOVERY_ENABLED: true/false - if set to false, adding new server is disabled. Default is true.CD_IP_CACHING_ENABLED: true/false - if set to true, CD agents' request IP address will also be added to AltHostNames. Default is false.
Known Restriction
- Upgrade on target Connect:Direct nodes via Control Center Director Web Console is currently not supported for Connect:Direct servers running on a 32-bit Solaris system. You must upgrade to Connect:Direct for UNIX v6.0.0 and above to support the upgrade process.
- Emergency restore feature is currently not available for Control Center Director v1.0.0.1 implementation of Connect:Direct for Windows.
- When Control Center Director upgrades or applies maintenance to Connect:Direct Windows, currently running Connect:Direct process are shut down immediately.