IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

tacmd configurePortalServer

Description

Use the tacmd configurePortalServer command to configure a user-defined portal server data source. If the data source already exists, use this command to change the configuration. If the data source does not exist, it is created by this command. You can also use this command to remove a data source. This command can only be run from a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installation.

When the tacmd configurePortalServer command is run on a system that does not have a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installed, a cq.ini file is created. When a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server is not installed, this command fails with an error message indicating that this command should only be run on a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server or that a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server configuration file was not found. Determine whether this system has a Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server installed and ensure that the path is specified correctly with the -d <CANDLEHOME> option or CANDLEHOME variable correctly exported in the CLI's environment before running this command.

Note:
  1. System defined data sources cannot be edited with this command. Only user-defined data sources can be edited with this command. Names for these data sources are in the format "DSUSER1", "DSUSER2"...etc.
  2. You must recycle the portal server to get a newly created connection to show up as a data source.

CLI syntax

tacmd configurePortalServer
                      {-s|--datasource} DATASOURCE
                      {-p|--property|--properties}  NAME=VALUE ...
                      [{-d|--directory} CANDLEHOME] [ {-f|--force } ]

tacmd configurePortalServer
           {-s|--datasource} DATASOURCE
           {-r|--remove} [{-d|--directory} CANDLEHOME] [ {-f|--force } ]

tacmd configurePortalServer {-s|--datasource} DATASOURCE
                      {-v|--view} [{-d|--directory} CANDLEHOME]

where:
-s|--datasource
Specifies the name of a new or existing data source. If the data source already exists and the remove option is not given, then an edit operation occurs. If the data source does not already exist, and the remove option is not specified, then an add operation occurs.
-r|--remove
Removes the named data source.
-v|--view
Display the properties of a datasource and their values. Password properties have their values displayed in an encrypted form.
-p|--property|--properties
A list of property names and values required to configure the data source. The list can be different for each data source type but usually includes at least user ID (key name UID) and password (key name PWD). Each property is stored as a key=value pair. Property values are encrypted before being stored to the configuration file or the Windows Registry. The combined properties create your datasource connection string. The following is a list of typical properties:
CONNECTION_TYPE=
Required if other than ODBC. Valid values are JDBC or DB2.
CONNECTION_LIMIT=
Optional. Controls the limit on how many simultaneous connections for ODBC or DB2 can be opened by the portal server. This property does not affect JDBC.
KFWDSURL=
If you are using JDBC, this is required.
KFWJDBCDRIVER=
If you are using JDBC, this is required.
Note: Your datasource connection string might require other properties not documented here.
The following is an example of datasource connection string for Oracle:
DSUSER2	=DSN=myJDBC;UID=scott;PWD=tiger;CONNECTION_TYPE=JDBC;
KFWJDBCDRIVER=/somewhere/ojdbc14.jar;
KFWDSURL=jdbc:oracle:thin:@myhost:1521:orcl
-d|--directory
The server's home directory.
-f|--force
Performs actions without asking confirmation.

CLI example

The following example modifies the DSUSER1 data source with user ID db2user and password db2password. The DSUSER1 data source is created if it does not already exist.
   tacmd configurePortalServer -s DSUSER1 -p UID=db2user PWD=db2password
The following example shows the configuration settings for the DSUSER1 data source:
   tacmd configurePortalServer -s DSUSER1 -v
The following output is displayed:
   DSN=DSUSER1
   UID=db2user
   PWD={AES256:keyfile:a}HW0LxUxCJ5tj9biXUWhCIQ==
   CONNECTION_LIMIT=32

Return values

See Table 1.
Note: To verify that the data source was correctly configured, log on to the portal server, click Query in the main toolbar to open the Query editor, and then click New Query to open the Create Query window. The name of the ODBC data source you configured is displayed in the Data Sources list.

Related commands

Return to Table 1.



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