Use the tacmd bulkExportPcy command to export all the available policies from the Tivoli Enterprise™ Monitoring Server.

where:

-t|--type type

Specifies the application type name or 'Others'. All the policies with affinity values that do not correspond to a specific two digit code should be classified under 'Others'.

-n|--names policy_names

Specifies the list of policy names to export.

-p|--path

Specifies the path name where the policy XML files are to be created. If not specified, picks from: 1) the environmental variable BULK_OBJECT_PATH 2) the current path.

-l --listfile file_name

Specifies the file name that contains the list of policy names to export.

-f|--force

Exports the policy files without prompting for confirmation from the user.

This command exports all policies for the "NT" application type to multiple files in the C:\IBM\ITM\BIN\Bulk\Policy\NT directory. The file name for each exported policy corresponds to the policy name with the ".xml" file extension. The path C:\IBM\ITM\BIN\ would be picked up from the BULK_OBJECT_PATH environment variable; if BULK_OBJECT_PATH is not defined in the environment, the current working directory would be used.

   tacmd bulkExportPcy -t NT  -f

See Table 2.