Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:50:24 -0600 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/ Gulf Breeze Software Partners en-us http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/images/GBSP_logo_small1.gif http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/ frank.tate@gulfsoft.com http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=487 In the past, we have posted few articles about gbscmd. We have updated the tool with few additional cool features such as clearing offline entries, executing commands on the agents and refreshing TEC EIF Integration component. This article explains how to use these features. Fri, 21 Mar 2008 08:50:24 -0600 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=486 With TPM it is possible to import SPBs with the TCM integration, Software Package Editor or manually from the Web UI. I wanted to add another. Thu, 06 Mar 2008 11:07:17 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=485 I recently taught a custom class we developed for TPM 5.1.1 and thought I would provide some feedback on TPM 5.1.1 Wed, 05 Mar 2008 14:42:43 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=484 Fix Pack 3 for TPM 5.1 and Fix Pack 1 for 5.1.1 are now available! So what does it do? Wed, 05 Mar 2008 11:54:05 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=483 If you have more than 200 of any type of agent, you start to see messages in your views about the number of systems being queried is too high. Sat, 01 Mar 2008 00:00:00 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=482 This short blog is related to the blog I wrote a while ago title "Upgrade from ITM6.1 FP6 to ITM6.2 may break logon through IE TEP". I had not posted the applet.html file I'm posting herein with the original blog I wrote on the problem because IBM/Tivoli had insisted the problem was unique to the environment I was working on at the time. Mon, 18 Feb 2008 12:11:00 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=481 The following are a few of the parameters used to fine tune the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, the most popular one is the expansion to show more than 25 systems in the navigator. Tue, 12 Feb 2008 18:34:43 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=479 One of the most convenient features of classic Tivoli event adapter is the postemsg command. Using this you can send custom events to TEC from your scripts/CLI. In ITM 6.1, there is no such equivalent command available though one can design such a solution in just three steps. This article discuss a way to setup postemsg like solution in ITM 6.x Wed, 23 Jan 2008 16:44:07 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=478 Many a time, you might want to test if you could connect to a database or not. The simplest way is of course having a database client installed and use it. However, this method may not be possible in all cases. For example, on an ITM warehouse proxy, you'll have only Db2 JDBC type 4 drivers, (which are nothing but two files, db2jcc.jar and db2jcc_license_cu.jar). How do you test connectivity on such systems? Here is a Jython script. Fri, 28 Dec 2007 16:20:12 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=477 IBM has provided a document on the components to download for install and updated the Info-Center Fri, 21 Dec 2007 11:55:30 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=476 The Christmas present everyone was waiting for :) Fri, 21 Dec 2007 09:46:55 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=475 While many Tivoli products use the InstallShield Multi-Platform (ISMP) installer, TCR uses Zero G installer. Thu, 20 Dec 2007 06:49:58 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=474 One of the sorely missed functionality of Tivoli Framework in ITM 6.x is is the remote command execution feature. Framework tasks provided this nice and useful feature, but ITM does not have any such functionality. However, in ITM 6.x, you can get this feature by using SOAP calls, but SOAP calls are not your cup of tea? Don't worry! Gbscmd has a new feature that provides way to execute remote commands using SOAP calls. This article details how to execute remote commands in ITM 6.x. Wed, 12 Dec 2007 17:37:21 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=473 It is great that ITM 6.2 brings about some good new features. However along with the good features are some painful issues that may ruin ones fun with the product at least for some moment. Herein is one pain I and others had to endure after an upgrade from ITM6.1 FP6 to ITM6.2 some few days ago. This document hopes to help one quickly eliminate at least one of the many possible pains that come with the upgrade to ITM 6.2. Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:03:52 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=472 I was just looking around on OPAL and saw that Tivoli released a guide to using the Ccommon Data Model (CDM). Tue, 04 Dec 2007 12:02:42 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=471 There has been alot of interest in BIRT lately with the release of Tivoli Common Reporting 1.1.1 to GA, so I'm posting a link to part of my TUG presentation on using BIRT.. Sat, 01 Dec 2007 22:05:00 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=470 I finally got around to trying to run gbscmd on my Macbook and found that I needed to do a little configuration to get it going. Tue, 27 Nov 2007 15:00:54 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=469 For quite a while I have always been annoyed by the search in Windows. I thought it was great that you could use the search to look for text inside a file, just like grep. Of course in usual Microsoft fashion, search all files does not mean to actually search all files. Sun, 18 Nov 2007 19:15:19 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=468 Since PERL is a tool of choice for many of us Tivolians when it comes to automations and integrating systems with Tivoli products, I thought it could be of help to others to throw out a few gotchas I've encountered programming Perl threads. Please note that I'm not referring to "forking". Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:32:52 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=467 I realize that this won't be interesting to many people, but I wrote an Eclipse plugin to access the TADDM API. Tue, 13 Nov 2007 13:30:07 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=466 UPDATE - 11/13 This comes up every now and then - "I made a change to the TEC configuration on HUB TEMS and now I have to restart". This SOAP call forces a reload of the MAP files and EIF configuration without having to restart the HUB. Tue, 06 Nov 2007 11:18:06 -0700 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=465 There is a requirment to capture the state / health of database mirroring. We have ITM61 in place. Is this achievable...? The database for which is required is SQL & Oracle both on Windows Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:41:53 -0600 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=464 Here are some quick links to the download site Fri, 02 Nov 2007 13:41:25 -0600 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=463 Several times, You wish you could make a recording of your Unix terminal session and save it for future audits or for documentation purposes. Though you could use some of the screen cast programs for this purpose, there are few disadvantages of this method such as maintaining window focus and large resulting file size. So, why not use a native UNIX command for this purpose? Read on.. Tue, 23 Oct 2007 07:01:34 -0600 http://www.gulfsoft.com/blog_new/index.php?name=News&file=article&sid=462 A question was asked on the TME 10 list on how to recover the password for the tlmroot account if it is lost. So I thought I would post how to do this on our blog. 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