User's Guide

Using the Tivoli Business Systems Manager Adapter

Once installed and configured, the adapter provides its services in a fully automatic way, not needing to be independently started or stopped.

It carries out the following activities:

Bulk discovery

The wdmdiscovery command can be issued from the Tivoli desktop to carry out a bulk discovery. The adapter sends details of all systems it has in its cache to the Tivoli Business Systems Manager's CommonListener. For full details of the command syntax see Appendix A, Commands. Figure 8 shows the data flows for bulk discovery.

Delta discovery

The same wdmdiscovery command can be issued from the Tivoli desktop to carry out a delta discovery. The adapter sends details of all changes since the last discovery, to the Tivoli Business Systems Manager's CommonListener. For full details of the command syntax see Appendix A, Commands. Figure 8 shows the data flows for delta discovery.

Figure 8. Data flows for bulk/delta discovery

The figure shows the data flow for bulk and delta discovery. The wdmdiscovery command is issued at the Tivoli Desktop (steps 1 and 2). At the target gateway, the Tivoli Business Systems Manager Adapter obtains the appropriate discovery information (bulk or delta) from the endpoint cache (step 3) and sends it to the Tivoli Business Systems Manager's CommonListener (step 4),

Note:

The Adapter expects that the CommonListener will respond to a discovery command within a configurable time-out (the default is 300 seconds). If the systems on which these components are running have misaligned time settings, the time-out value may seem to have been exceeded, with the discovery being rejected. The solution is either to align the systems' time settings or to increase the time-out value. Full details are given in Problem Determination.