Conventions used in this guide

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

Operating system-dependent variables and paths

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

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

$OMNIHOME/probes

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

%OMNIHOME%\probes

For probes supported on UNIX, Linux, and Windows operating systems, probe guides use the standard UNIX conventions for specifying environment variables and describing directory paths. When using the Windows command line with these probes, 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. Where such variables are described in the guide, both the UNIX and Windows conventions will be used.

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/probes/arch

The following table lists the directory names used for each operating system.

Note: This probe may not support all of the operating systems specified in the table.

Table 1. Directory names for the `arch` variable
Operating system	Directory name represented by `arch`
AIX® systems	aix5
Red Hat Linux® and SUSE systems	linux2x86
Linux for System z	linux2s390
Solaris systems	solaris2
Windows systems	win32

OMNIHOME location

Probes and older versions of Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus use the OMNIHOME environment variable in many configuration files. Set the value of OMNIHOME as follows:

On UNIX and Linux, set $OMNIHOME to $NCHOME/omnibus.
On Windows, set %OMNIHOME% to %NCHOME%\omnibus.