IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus, Version 7.4

Enabling support for TADDM events in the Web GUI

You can add a menu, tools, and a filter for TADDM events to the Web GUI server to enable you to view further details about these events when displayed in the Active Event List.

Before you begin

The following prerequisites must be met:

You must have set up integration between Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus and TADDM, as described in Configuring support for TADDM events in your integrated environment.
You must have configured the Web GUI Administration Application Program Interface (WAAPI) client with the appropriate property settings in the webgui-home/waapi/etc/waapi.init properties file as described in Setting up the WAAPI client.

About this task

You can add the menu, tools, and filter by running a WAAPI command file, which is supplied in the Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus installation. After running the command file, you must then add the menu as a submenu of the Active Event List Alerts menu.

To add the menu and tools for TADDM events to the Web GUI server:

Procedure

From a Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus host, copy the contents of the $NCHOME/omnibus/extensions/taddm directory to the following location where the Web GUI server is installed:
webgui-home/waapi/bin
From the Web GUI server, open a command window and enter the following WAAPI command to add the menu and tools for TADDM events:
webgui-home/waapi/bin/runwaapi -file taddm_menutools_web_gui.xml

You can now add the new menu as a submenu of the Alerts menu, which is used in the Active Event List.
From the Web GUI, add a TADDM submenu to the Alerts menu, as follows:
1. Click Administration > Event Management Tools > Menu Configuration.
2. Select alerts from the list of menus, and click Modify.
3. From the Available items area, select menu from the drop-down list. The list of all menu items that can be added to the Alerts menu is shown.
4. Select the TADDM item and click Add selected item to move the item to the Current items area. You can use the arrow buttons to reposition the TADDM item, if required.
5. Click Save and click OK to confirm.

Results

The menu, tools, and filter are now available in the Active Event List for use with TADDM events.