To manage process control, you must first determine your
process control configuration requirements and then perform a number
of configuration tasks.
Before you begin
Determine which Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus components
are installed and where they are located. Ensure that you have taken
into account all components and any failover or backup systems. Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus desktops
are not managed by process control.
About this task
A summary of the configuration tasks is as follows:
Procedure
- If you are using the default authentication mechanism on UNIX, set up a dedicated user group
that you can use to control access to the process control system.
Assign users to this group.
On Windows, access to the process control system
is governed by the availability of a valid local or domain user account.
Any account that is used to log into the computer on which a process
agent is running can also be used to connect to the process agent,
providing the user has the privilege Access this computer
from the network.
- For each process agent, configure server communication
information (that is, a host name and port number) on the host computer
and on every computer that needs to connect to the process control
network. You must configure the server communication information in
the Server Editor (or nco_xigen) before starting
a process agent.
- Update the default process agent configuration file for
each process agent by defining processes, services, and hosts.
What to do next
When the configuration is complete, start the process
agents. You can start a process agent either manually from the command
line, or automatically, when the system starts. To start a process
agent automatically, you can either use startup scripts on UNIX, or install and configure
the process agent to run as a Windows service.
Processes automatically run as defined within the configuration file
for each process agent, and process agents communicate as configured.