About the Windows Conductor

The desktop tools and options that are available to you from the Windows Conductor menu will depend on the privileges granted to you by your system administrator.

You can open the Windows Conductor by right-clicking the bus icon in the Windows system tray. The Windows Conductor is shown in the following figure.

This figure shows the Windows Conductor pop-up menu, which acts as a single point of access for all of the desktop tools on Windows. — Figure 1. Conductor on Windows

You can display information about the login details for the Conductor by moving the cursor over the bus icon to see the user name and ObjectServer details in a ToolTip. To run a tool from the Conductor, select an option from the menu. The tool starts automatically; you do not need to enter a user name or password.

Use the Conductor menu options as follows:

Event List: Click this option to start the event list with a default configuration; that is, with a default view and default filter.
Servers: Click this option to start the Server Editor, which is used to set up communication details that enable Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus server components to communicate with each other.
Properties: Click this option to start the Properties Editor, which you can use to edit the configuration information in the properties files for ObjectServers, proxy servers, process agents, the database initialization utility (nco_dbinit), probes, and gateways.
Tools: Click this option to start tools that have been configured by your system administrator.
Preferences: Click this option to configure global preferences for Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus.
Password: Click this option to change your password.
Help: Click this option to access help on using the desktop tools.
About Conductor: Click this option to display the Conductor version.
Exit: Click this option to close the Conductor.