Use the setperm command to set file permissions to ensure that the permissions were set properly during the installation procedure. To run this command, you must logged into the UNIX® computer as root.

When you run the setperm command, a product selection list is displayed. This list is sorted and contains the run architectures within each product description. From the list of installed products, enter a valid number or numbers separated by commas or spaces.

where:

-s

Used to set security validation on selected monitoring servers.

-h install_dir

(Optional) Identifies the installation directory if it is not the one in which the script is located.

Also use this option to take action on an IBM Tivoli Monitoring installation directory other than the one in the current system.

The following example starts the setperm utility:

   setperm -s

An exit status of 0 indicates that the command ran successfully. An exit status greater than 0 indicates that there was a failure in the process.