IBM Tivoli Composite Application Agent for J2EE, Version 7.1.1

Permissions required for installing and configuring ITCAM Agent for J2EE

You can install ITCAM Agent for J2EE as the root or administrator user. Alternatively, if you use a user account without administrator or root privileges. make sure that appropriate permissions are available.

Required permissions common to all J2EE application servers:

You can use the application server user to install the agent and configure the Data Collector. On UNIX platform (AIX/HP-UX/Linux/Solaris), if the user of the application server and the data collector are not the same, the user of the application server should be a member of the user group for the data collector.
Read, write, and create new file permissions for the new agent home directory.
Read permissions to the <AppServer_home> directory and to all subfiles and subdirectories
Read and Execute File permissions for the JDK directory that is used for starting the application server.

Permissions for the application server after the Data Collector has been installed and successfully configured:

Read and Write permissions to the garbage collection log file.
Read, Write, and Create New File permissions to the server-instance-specific runtime directory under <DC_home>/runtime

Note: The permissions for this directory are changed automatically by the Configuration Tool

Table 1. Application-server-specific, required permissions for the user that installs and configures the Data Collector
Application Server	File or Directory	Permissions Required
JBoss	The JBoss startup script file specified by the parameter JBOSSSTARTSH	Read Write
JBoss	The JBoss run.jar file at <AppServer_home>/bin/run.jar	Read
JBoss	The JBoss server instance directory at <AppServer_home>/server/<AppServer_instance>	Read Write Create New File
Tomcat	The Tomcat startup script file specified by the parameter STARTUP_FILE	Read Write
Tomcat	The Tomcat configuration file at <AppServer_home>/conf/catalina.properties	Read Write
Tomcat	The Tomcat catalina.jar file at <AppServer_home>/lib/catalina.jar	Read
J2SE	The J2SE application startup script file specified by the parameter J2SESTARTSH	Read Write
SAP Netweaver on Linux and UNIX systems	The Netweaver instance startup profile directory. For example: /usr/sap/J2E/SYS/profile/START_JC00_tiv00 In this example, START_JC00_tiv00 is the name of the profile Note: The NETWEAVER_INSTANCE_STARTUP_PRFILE file is used for setting the library path and some arguments for the AIX® platform.	Read Write
SAP Netweaver	The Central Instance Network Home directory at <central_instance_network_home>/SDM/program	Read Write Create New File
SAP Netweaver	The Central Instance configtool directory at <central_instance_network_home>/j2ee/configtool	Read Write Create New File
WebLogic	The WebLogic startup script file specified by the parameter WL_STARTSH Note: This is required only if the WebLogic server instance is started from a script file	Read Write
WebLogic	The WebLogic node manager startup script file at <AppServer_home>/server/bin/startNodeManager.sh(cmd) Note: This is required only if the WebLogic server instance is started by the node manager	Read Write
WebLogic	WebLogic common environment directory <AppServer_home>/common/bin	Read Write
WebLogic	WebLogic startup script file directory. In WebLogic 8, the path is <Domain_Home>, for example, /bea/user_projects/domains/mydomain/ In WebLogic 9, the path is <Domain_Home>/bin, for example, /bea/user_projects/domains/base_domain/bin	Read Write
WebLogic on Windows systems	The WebLogic node manager install service file at <AppServer_home>/server/bin/installNodeMgrSvc.cmd Note: This is required only if the WebLogic server instance is started by the node manager and the node manager is installed as a Windows service	Read Write
WebLogic 9 and 10	The WebLogic common environment file at <AppServer_home>/common/bin/commEnv.sh(cmd) Note: This is required only if the WebLogic instance or node manager are started by the WebLogic Script Tool (WST)	Read Write

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