IV67573: FLAW IN THE TAD4D TLMAGENT START/STOP SCRIPT

Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed Interim Fix 7.5.0-TIV-TAD4D-IF0027
Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed Interim Fix 7.5.0-TIV-TAD4D-IF0026
IBM License Metric Tool Interim Fix 7.5.0-TIV-ILMT-IF0026
Tivoli Asset Discovery for Distributed Interim Fix 7.5.0-TIV-TAD4D-IF0024
IBM License Metric Tool Interim Fix 7.5.0-TIV-ILMT-IF0024
IBM License Metric Tool Interim Fix 7.5.0-TIV-ILMT-IF0026

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• Customer has concern about the start script
  
  
  Here is what they believe:
  
  Below is our recommended change:
  
  .
  Line 47 reads:
                  ps -ef | egrep 'tlmagent -g$|tlmagent$'
  >/dev/null 2>&
  1
  .
  It SHOULD read:
                  ps -ef |egrep -v egrep |egrep 'tlmagent
  -g$|tlmagent$'
   >/dev/null 2>&1
  .
  The change will allow for the egrep to succeed.  Currently,
  there is a
   strong possibility that the egreg process is still in the
  process lis
  t and will be caught by the original egrep.  That entire block
  of code
   is then inconsequential, and will almost always fail over to
  the fina
  l kill command.
  .
  More importantly, the kill script should fork, attempt to stop
  the tlm
  agent process, wait for some time, if the stop attempt failed it
  shoul
  d then kill -9 the binary.  The current structure of the kill
  script a
  llows for the binary not "stopping nicely" to hang the entire
  process.
  

Local fix

Problem summary

• ****************************************************************
  * After you run the command to stop the agent on a UNIX
  * operating system, the agent is not stopped in fact.
  *
  * EXPECTED RESULTS:
  * The agent is properly stopped.
  ****************************************************************
  * RECOMMENDATION: Apply appropriate interim fix when available.
  ****************************************************************
  

Problem conclusion

• The fix for this APAR is contained in the following maintenance
  packages:
   | Interim Fix | 7.5.0-TIV-ILMT-TAD4D-IF0023
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TIV ASSET DIS 4

• Fixed component ID

  5724T4D00

Applicable component levels

• R750 PSY

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