IBM Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus Version 8.1

Defining processes, services, and hosts for process control

To run under process control, processes, services, and hosts must be defined within a process agent configuration file. When the process agent starts, it reads this file to establish configuration settings.

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The default process agent configuration file is:

$NCHOME/omnibus/etc/nco_pa.conf

The file is made up of definitions, each of which contains attributes and associated values, for each process, service, and host. The definitions are listed in the following order within the file:
  1. Process definitions
  2. Service definitions
  3. Security definitions (optional)
  4. Routing definitions

Edit this file directly to add or modify definitions. Maintain the configuration files on all of your hosts to ensure that the host configuration information stays synchronized across all of the process agents in the configuration.

Note: To prevent unauthorized users from gaining access, operating system security must be set appropriately for files, such as configuration files, that might contain user names and passwords.

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