(If applicable) Enabling granular control of SDA application support files

By default, granular control of self-describing agent (SDA) application support data is disabled on z/OS hub monitoring servers. To enable granular support, you must use the tacmd CLI to specify the products and versions for which data is to be installed.

Before you begin

SDA administration requires access to the Tivoli administrative commands (tacmd) Command Line Interface (CLI) from a distributed platform, such as Windows, Unix or Linux. The tacmd CLI is a product component that is installed on a distributed system and allows interaction with the monitoring server. For more information about the tacmd CLI, see (If applicable) Installing the tacmd CLI component.

Procedure

To enable granular control of application support for self-describing agents, issue one of the following commands using the tacmd CLI:

tacmd addSdaInstallOptions to specify the products and versions that the self-describing agent facility is allowed to install.
tacmd editSdaInstallOptions -t DEFAULT -i ON to allow installations for all products and versions without any blocking. (This setting is essentially the default self-describing agent behavior in V6.2.3 and V6.2.3 FP1.)

After modifying your installation options, you can use the tacmd listSdaInstallOptions command to display the current installation configurations for the hub monitoring server. You can use the tacmd listappinstallrecs command to monitor the application support installation records and the tacmd listSdaStatus command to monitor the self-describing enablement and suspend status for all monitoring servers in your environment.