1. ITM 622FP2 Centralized Configuration Facility & tacmd putfile/getfile Tivoli North Central User Group August 26th, 2010

3. What is it good for?

4. Deploying CCF

5. Scenarios where CCF may be useful

6. Pre-requisites

7. Planning

8. Installation / Configuration

9. tacmdputfile/getfile

10. Live Demonstration

11. Optional Environmental Variables / Keyword Substitution

12. Lessons Learned & Best Practices

13. Troubleshooting

15. Provides a central location for agent configuration and other operational artifacts

18. Efficiency – Update thousands of configurations automatically

20. Widely distributed operational files

21. Distributing silent installation files

22. Highly effective in distributing supporting files for an Agent Builder environment

24. (Optional) Environment setup for tacmdputfile/getfile

27. Central Server Loadlist <ConfigurationArtifact> <ConfigServer Name="CENTRAL-CONFIG-SERVER" URL="http://tw3g10:1920///system.tw3g10_nt/system.tw3g10_nt/" User=“Administrator" Password="{AES256:keyfile:a}qNf3u5TzYsiNXRacS4/sXQ==" /> </ConfigurationArtifact>

28. Bootstrap Loadlist <ConfigurationArtifact> <ConfigServer Name="CENTRAL-CONFIG-SERVER" URL="http://tw3g10:1920///system.tw3g10_nt/system.tw3g10_nt/" User=“Administrator" Password="{AES256:keyfile:a}2fhfCvELPHKm94/OkbOjyw==" /> <ConfigFile Server="CENTRAL-CONFIG-SERVER" Name="cnfglist.xml“ Path="@PRODUCT@” Disp="CNFGLIST” Activate="YES" /> </ConfigurationArtifact>

29. Product Specific Instructions <ConfigurationArtifact> <ConfigServer Name="CENTRAL-CONFIG-SERVER" URL=“http://tw3g10:1920///system.tw3g10_nt/system.tw3g10_nt/" User=“Administrator" Password="{AES256:keyfile:a}2fhfCvELPHKm94/OkbOjyw==“ <ConfigFile Server="CENTRAL-CONFIG-SERVER" Name="myfile1.sh“ Path=“@PRODUCT@“ LocalPath="@ITMHOME@/tmp" /> </ConfigurationArtifact>

30. Base Loadlist <ConfigurationArtifact> <ConfigServer Name="CENTRAL-CONFIG-SERVER" URL=“http://tw3g10:1920///system.tw3g10_nt/system.tw3g10_nt/" User=“Administrator" Password="{AES256:keyfile:a}2fhfCvELPHKm94/OkbOjyw==" /> <ConfigFile Server="CENTRAL-CONFIG-SERVER" Name="bootstrap_cnfglist.xml“ Path="common“ Disp="CNFGLIST“ Activate="YES" /> </ConfigurationArtifact>

32. Utilized ITM infrastructure for file transfer

33. KT1_TEMS_SECURE=YES

37. @ITMHOME@

38. @MSN@

39. @TASKNAME@

40. @VERSION@

41. @HOSTNAME@

42. @IPADDRESS@

43. @OSTYPE@

44. @OSVERSION@

46. Use a bootstrap cnfglist file

48. itmusersgroup must have access for file locations

49. Replacement of initial loadlists

50. DISP (File Disposition)

51. Time synchronization

54. This is the first rev of CCF – expect the find v1.0 issues