Configuring the agent by using the silent response file

You can configure the Monitoring Agent for Sybase Server by using the silent response file.

Before you begin

The Sybase agent does not support remote configuration. Hence, you need to ensure that the Sybase server is installed on the same host where the Sybase agent is installed.

The Sybase agent supports Sybase server version 15.7 and 16.0 only.

The user ID that is used to connect to the database server is created.

About this task

The Sybase agent is a multiple instance agent, you must configure and start each agent instance manually.

You must edit the silent response file and run the agent command to configure the monitoring agent.

Procedure

  1. Edit the silent response file.
    • Windows

      Silent response file is at: install_dir\samples\sybase_silent_config.txt.

    • UNIX

      Silent response file is at: install_dir/samples/sybase_silent_config.txt.

    Where install_dir is the agent installation directory.
    1. For the Home Directory parameter, specify the path of the Sybase server home directory.
      • Windows

        The example of Home Directory is \opt\sybase.

      • UNIX

        The example of Home Directory is /opt/sybase.

    2. For the Open Client Directory parameter, specify the Sybase open client installation location.
      • Windows

        The example of Open Client Directory is \opt\sybase\ocs-16_0.

      • UNIX

        The example of Open Client Directory is /opt/sybase/ocs-16_0.

    3. For the USER ID parameter, specify the user ID that is used by the monitoring agent to connect to the Sybase server.

      The default USER ID is tivoli.

    4. For the PASSWORD parameter, specify the password of the user ID that is used by the monitoring agent to connect to the Sybase server.
    5. For the VERSION parameter, specify the Sybase server version.

      The Sybase agent supports Sybase server versions 15.7 and 16.0 only.

    6. For the ERROR LOG FILE parameter, specify the fully qualified file name of the error log file for the Sybase server.
      • Windows

        The example of the ERROR LOG FILE is \opt\sybase\ASE-16_0\install\servername.log.

      • UNIX

        The example of the ERROR LOG FILE is /opt/sybase/ASE-16_0/install/servername.log.

      Where servername is the Sybase server name.
    7. For the EXTENDED parameter, specify the extended parameter that is used by support to exclude certain cursor execution. Optionally, leave it blank to execute all cursors.
      The options for the EXTENDED are DBD2,DBD15,KOYSEGD.
      • DBD2 will exclude cursor execution for datasets Sybase_Database_Detail and Sybase_Database_Summary.
      • DBD15 will exclude cursor execution for dataset Sybase_Database_Detail.
      • KOYSEGD will exclude cursor execution for dataset Sybase_Segment_Detail.
  2. Save the silent response file.
  3. Run the following agent command to configure the monitoring agent.
    • Windows
      install_dir\bin\sybase-agent.bat config instance_name 
       install_dir\samples\sybase_silent_config.txt
    • UNIX
      install_dir/bin/sybase-agent.sh config instance_name 
       install_dir/samples/sybase_silent_config.txt
    Where:
    • install_dir is the agent installation directory.
    • instance_name is the Sybase server name.

What to do next

When the configuration is completed, you can start the monitoring agent and connect the monitoring agent to the Performance Management server.

To start the Sybase agent, use the sybase-agent command.

To connect the Sybase agent to the Performance Management server, use the agent2server command.

For more information about the sybase-agent and agent2server , see Using agent commands in https://www.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSHLNR_8.1.4/com.ibm.pm.doc/welcome.htm.