Changing IDT SSH Daemon configuration

Each Netcool Configuration Manager server has an SSH Daemon process that routes IDT sessions to another Netcool Configuration Manager server or to the network device.

Before you begin

The main purpose of the SSD Daemon is to provide a secure tunnel to route session information from the IDT client to the device. Depending on the server configuration, this may route information from client > presentation server > network device, or client > presentation server > worker server > network device.

The SSH Daemon can operate in three modes:
mainserver
The 'mainserver' mode is normally configured on a presentation server.
If you have a deployment with more than one presentation server, then by setting one of the servers to 'mainserver' means that all IDT sessions will route through this server.
If all presentation servers are configured as 'mainserver', IDT will pick the first one in the list.
server
The 'server' mode is the opposite of 'mainserver', and is normally configured on a presentation server.
If you have a deployment which has more than one presentation server, then by setting all of the servers to 'server' means that all IDT sessions will route through the presentation server to which the user has connected.
worker
The 'worker' mode is always configured on a worker server, and should only be changed if the worker is reconfigured into a presentation server.

About this task

This task describes how to run the changeIDTDaemon.sh script.

Procedure

  1. Change to the following directory: 
    cd /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/ncm/bin/utils/idt
  2. Run the changeIDTDaemon.sh <mode> script, for example
    changeIDTDaemon.sh server