You can enable or disable the self-described
agent capability for a specific monitoring server through an environment
configuration variable at the Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Server.
Disable
the self-describing feature any time you do not want automatic update
and propagation of self-described agent application metadata to occur
for a specific monitoring server. Then, the application support for
the agent must be manually installed and activated at each monitoring server and portal server. By default the self-describing
capability for remote monitoring servers is turned on, and for hub
monitoring servers it is turned off.
About this task
Enabling or disabling the self-describing capability at a specific remote monitoring server affects all agents that connect to that server only.
Use the following steps to temporarily stop self-describing at a single monitoring server by editing the target monitoring server environment variable.
Procedure
- On the computer where the monitoring server is installed, in the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services application, right-click Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server and select Advanced→ Edit ENV file.
- Edit the existing environment variable: KMS_SDA=Y | N
- On the computer where the monitoring server is installed, change to the <install_dir>/config/ directory.
- Open the <tems_hostname>_ms_<tems_name>.config file.
- Edit the existing environment variable: KMS_SDA=Y | N
See KMS_SDA in
the IBM Tivoli OMEGAMON XE and Tivoli Management Services
on z/OS: Common Planning and Configuration Guide.
What to do next
You can then
review the agent support versions in the following ways:
- Review the agent and monitoring server operations logs to determine if the agent is operating in the standard or the self-described agent mode. The Managed System Status workspace has a link to the operations log for each monitoring agent.
- The tacmd listappinstallrecs command returns the application support installation records and the tacmd listSdaStatus command displays the current self-describing agent operational status for all monitoring servers in the environment. Remember that these commands are not available when the monitoring server is not running. See Self-describing agent installation.