Disabling the HTTPS or HTTP server

If your environment uses an HTTP server but not an HTTPS server, or vice versa, you can prevent unnecessary error logging by specifying configuration parameters to disable the unused server. For a monitoring server, the HTTP or HTTPS server is used both for the Service Console and for the SOAP server. For a stand-alone monitoring agent, the HTTP or HTTPS server is used for the Service Console only.

To disable an HTTPS server, the HTTPS option in the KDE_TRANSPORT environment variable must be set to 0 (zero) in the Kpp ENV member of the rhilev.rte.RKANPARU library. To disable an HTTP server, the HTTP option in the KDE_TRANSPORT environment variable must be set to 0 (zero).

Disable the HTTPS server by setting the value of the Kpp_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_HTTP_OPTIONS parameter to HTTPS:0 in the PARMGEN LPAR configuration profile. Similarly, you can disable the HTTP server by setting the value of the Kpp_X_KDE_TRANSPORT_HTTP_OPTIONS parameter to HTTP:0 in the PARMGEN configuration profile.

Important: If you disable both the HTTP server and the HTTPS server in the KDSENV member (which contains environment variable definitions for the monitoring server), you disable the SOAP server. The SOAP server is required if you want to use the Tivoli administrative commands (tacmd) Command Line Interface (CLI) to administer the self-describing agent feature.