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13.5 How to enable tracing

When investigating a problem with a particular component, there are two ways to

turn up the tracing level for diagnosis:

򐂰 Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services

򐂰 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console

Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services

To use the Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services user interface to

increase the trace level, follow these instructions.

Go to Start → Programs → IBM Tivoli Monitoring → Manage Tivoli

Enterprise Monitoring Services → right-click in the component →

Advanced → Edit trace parms. See Figure 13-1.

Figure 13-1 Manage Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Services User Interface

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Figure 13-2 shows the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server: Trace Parameters

panel. You can use this panel to specify the number and size of log files, and to

select a trace level from the pull-down list.

Figure 13-2 Edit trace parms

IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console

To use the IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console to increase the trace levels,

use this information.

Each product installed on the system has a corresponding Service Console:

򐂰 SY = Summarization & Pruning

򐂰 UM = Universal Agent

򐂰 HD = Warehouse Proxy Agent

򐂰 NT = Windows OS Agent

򐂰 CNP = TEPS

򐂰 CMS = monitoring server

Note: The tracing changes set here do not take effect until the component is

restarted.

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You can access the available service consoles for a given machine by pointing a

Web browser at the following URL:

http://<hostname>:1920

Figure 13-3 shows the link to access the service console.

Figure 13-3 IBM Tivoli Monitoring Service Console

To log on to the service console for monitoring server, click one of the service

console hyperlinks to bring up an authentication panel. This will utilize the

operating system access and authentication credentials of the host system. See

Figure 13-4 on page 459.

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Figure 13-4 Logging on service console

Figure 13-5 on page 460 shows what the service console looks like after logging

on. You can enter trace parameters in the text box at the bottom of the screen.

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Figure 13-5 After logging

Figure 13-6 on page 461 is an example of a modified trace setting.

Note: The advantage of setting tracing in this manner is that it takes effect

dynamically.