Conventions used in this guide

All gateway guides use standard conventions for operating system-dependent environment variables and directory paths.

Operating system-dependent variables and paths

All gateway guides use standard conventions for specifying environment variables and describing directory paths, depending on what operating systems the gateway is supported on.

For gateways supported on UNIX and Linux operating systems, gateway guides use the standard UNIX conventions such as $variable for environment variables and forward slashes (/) in directory paths. For example:

$OMNIHOME/gates

For gateways supported only on Windows operating systems, gateway guides use the standard Windows conventions such as %variable% for environment variables and backward slashes (\) in directory paths. For example:

%OMNIHOME%\gates

For gateways supported on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems, gateway guides use the standard UNIX conventions for specifying environment variables and describing directory paths. When using the Windows command line with these gateways, replace the UNIX conventions used in the guide with Windows conventions. If you are using the bash shell on a Windows system, you can use the UNIX conventions.
Note: The names of environment variables are not always the same in Windows and UNIX environments. For example, %TEMP% in Windows environments is equivalent to $TMPDIR in UNIX and Linux environments.

Operating system-specific directory names

Where Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus files are identified as located within an arch directory under NCHOME or OMNIHOME, arch is a variable that represents your operating system directory. For example:

$OMNIHOME/gates/arch/

The following table lists the directory names used for each supported operating system.
Table 1. Directory names for the arch variable
Operating system Directory name represented by arch

AIX® systems

 aix5

HP-UX PA-RISC-based systems

 hpux11

HP-UX Integrity-based systems

 hpux11hpia

Red Hat Linux® and SUSE systems

 linux2x86

Linux for System z®

 linux2s390

Solaris systems

 solaris2

Windows systems

 win32