Installing probes

All probes are installed in a similar way. The process involves downloading the appropriate installation package for your operating system, installing the files, and configuring the probes to suit your environment.

The installation process consists of the following steps:
  1. Downloading the installation package for the probe from the Passport Advantage Online website.

    Each probe has a single installation package for each operating system supported. For details about how to locate and download the installation package for your operating system, see: Obtaining the installation package

  2. Installing the probe using the installation package.

    The installation package contains the appropriate files for all supported versions of Netcool/OMNIbus and for connecting probes directly to IBM Cloud Pak for AIOps if you do not have Netcool/OMNIbus installed. For details about how to install the probe, see: Installing the installation package

  3. Configuring the probe.

    This guide contains details of the essential configuration required to run this probe. It combines topics that are common to all probes and topics that are peculiar to this probe.