You can use the installation image to populate the agent
depot only when you are populating the depot with bundles for the
same operating system as your monitoring server.
Use the following sections to populate your agent depot from the
installation image:
You can use the installation image to add a bundle for a Windows agent to a Windows monitoring server, but you cannot
use the Linux installation
image to add a Linux bundle
to a Windows monitoring server.
If you need to add bundles for operating systems other than that used
by your monitoring server, use the
tacmd addBundles command,
as described in
Populating the agent depot with the tacmd addBundles command.
Attention: Load only Tivoli®-provided product agent bundles into
the IBM® Tivoli Monitoring deployment depot. User-provided
or customized bundles are not supported. Use only Tivoli-provided tacmd commands to process
bundles and to execute agent deployments. Manual manipulation of the
depot directory structure or the bundles and files within it is not
supported and may void your warranty.