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Script Monitor Extension for IBM Director

An extension for IBM Director that makes it easy to customize Resource Monitor items with scripts.


Date Posted: December 4, 2007
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Platform requirements

Run-time environment:

  • Operating system: a Linux® version that supports IBM® Director 5.x
  • Software: IBM Director agent (Level 2) 5.x

Development environment:

  • Operating system: a Linux version that supports IBM Director 5.x
  • Software:
    • IBM Director agent (Level 2) 5.x
    • IBM Java™ SDK 1.4.2
    • Ruby 1.8.5 or above

Installation instructions

For both packages:

  1. Move the tar file to a directory of your choice (such as /opt or /usr/local).
  2. Untar/unzip the file, as follows:
    tar zxf smon4dir_x_x_x.tar.gz
    
  3. Copy dirext.jar file to I${IBM_DIRECTOR_HOME}/classes, as follows:
    cp ${SMON4DIR}/lib/dirext.jar ${IBM_DIRECTOR_HOME}/classes
    

    ${SMON4DIR} is (Your installed directory)/dirext.
    ${IBM_DIRECTOR_HOME} is the directory in which you installed IBM Director (the default is /opt/ibm/director).

  4. Edit the ${IBM_DIRECTOR_HOME}/bin/twgjava file, and add the above dirext.jar file into JAVA_CLASSPATH, as follows:
    # Base classpath
    JAVA_CLASSPATH=$TWG_ROOTDIR/classfix:$TWG_CLASSESDIR:$TWG_CLASSESDIR/DirLibs.jar \
    :$TWG_CLASSESDIR/DirAgent.jar
    # Added classpath for dirext.jar
    JAVA_CLASSPATH="$JAVA_CLASSPATH:$TWG_CLASSESDIR/dirext.jar"
    


For development package only: The following additional steps are required:

  1. Install IBM Java SDK 1.4.2 and Ruby.
  2. Add ruby and javac into your $PATH (for example, in the ~/.bash_profile).
  3. Copy classes/DirLibs.jar, classes/DirAgent.jar into ${SMON4DIR}/lib/, as follows:
    cp ${IBM_DIRECTOR_HOME}/classes/DirLibs.jar ${SMON4DIR}/lib/
    cp ${IBM_DIRECTOR_HOME}/classes/DirAgent.jar ${SMON4DIR}/lib/
    

For further details, please see the included "readme" file.


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