READ.ME
This file contains information about installing the NMC Launch portion
of the Inventory tool. This portion is installed and runs on the NMC
Topology Server.
Note that the Inventory Launch is provided "as is" and no warranty is
provided by IBM. Use at your own risk. Problems will be fixed on a
"best effort" basis.
Downloading Inventory Launch
From the NetView Unsupported Tools web page at
http://www.tivoli.com/support/downloads/netview_390/tools/
download NMCinventoryLaunch.bin if you are running on an AIX platform,
or NMCinventoryLaunch.exe if you are running on a Windows platform.
These are self-extracting files and should be downloaded into your $BINDIR
directory.
Note: BINDIR is \usr\local\Tivoli\bin\aix4-r1 for AIX and for
Windows BINDIR is the "Destination Folder" path that was selected during
the InstallShield installation of NMC Server (with the default being
C:\usr\local\Tivoli\bin\w32-ix86)). Throughout this document, the AIX
syntax is used for BINDIR and for pathnames. If you are installing on a
Windows platform use %BINDIR% and use backward slashes as directory
separators.
Installing and Configuring Inventory Launch
From the NetView Management Console you can retrieve inventory data
from the Inventory Server for managed resources for which NetView
has an IP address. The Inventory Server resides on a managed node
where Tivoli Inventory is installed. To determine if Tivoli Inventory is
installed, issue the winvgetdata command. If the command is
recognized, the Tivoli Inventory server is installed. If the command is
not recognized, install the Tivoli Inventory server. For installation
procedures, refer to the Tivoli Inventory User's Guide.
The NMC Inventory Launch is installed by running the
NMCinventoryLaunch application (downloaded above) from the
$BINDIR directory on the NMC Server. This will place the TivoliInventory.properties
file and the ihssnvis.rsp file in the $BINDIR/server/sample directory.
To add the GET INVENTORY command to the NMC menu from the
$BINDIR/TDS/server/bin directory issue the following command:
cpebatch ../sample/ihssnvis.en_US.rsp -I -g
Using the Tivoli Inventory interface, you can specify which fields are
required when a user issues the GET INVENTORY command. You can also
define queries in addition to those provided by Tivoli Inventory. You
can designate which query names are to be displayed in the popup menu by
modifying the TivoliInventory.properties file. The inventory administrator
performs scans to populate the inventory database prior to using this
function for the first time.
The server download has a sample NMC "TivoliInventory.properties" file.
It is located in the following directory:
- For Windows: %BINDIR%\TDS\server\db\current\settings
- For UNIX: $BINDIR/TDS/server/db/current/settings
The TivoliInventory.properties file contains the following entries:
INV_Q.1=INVENTORY_HARDWARE
INV_Q.2=INVENTORY_SOFTWARE
INV_Q.3=INVENTORY_HARDDISK
INV_Q.4=INVENTORY_MEMORY
You can modify this file as follows:
- Add or delete query names to this list. As you modify the file,
consider the following:
- INV_Q.1 is the default query. If no INV_Q entry is
found, INVENTORY_HARDWARE is used.
- INV_Q list must begin with .1 and subsequent entries
must be consecutive numbers.
- Query names must match the query names available on the
Tivoli Inventory server.
- Update the HOSTNAME entry with the name of the Tivoli managed
server where the Tivoli Inventory server is installed. For
example:
HOSTNAME = myTIServer.mynode.com
where HOSTNAME = myTIServer.mynode.com is the HOSTNAME
of the machine where the Tivoli Inventory server is installed.
- If necessary, update the port.
