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By Ronald Blum, AP Baseball Writer
NEW YORK Downstairs, Joe Girardi has taken over the Legends Field manager's office from Joe Torre. Upstairs on the fourth floor, Hank and Hal Steinbrenner have filled the decision-making role made famous by their tempestuous father.
The New York Yankees, baseball's most traditional team, have a new look as they start spring training, at least on the management side. They haven't won the World Series since 2000 and head into their last season at Yankee Stadium obsessed with overtaking the champion Boston Red Sox.
"The Yankees aren't about losing," Hank Steinbrenner said. "I don't like losing, and the fans don't like losing. So we'll see what happens. I think by playoff time, if we get there, we could be pretty tough, if those young pitchers come along right at the right time."
In his role as senior vice president, Hank Steinbrenner has become overseer of baseball operations, his 77-year-old father receding to a consigliere role as his health declined. Hank Steinbrenner ratified general manager Brian Cashman's selection of Girardi over Don Mattingly to replace Torre, then decided to re-sign Alex Rodriguez even after A-Rod opted out of his contract. He followed Cashman's recommendation and resisted trading top young talent for Johan Santana, who wound up with the Mets.
Yankees' fans will pay close attention to whether Hank Steinbrenner stays in the executive suite in a silent role during spring training or becomes a daily presence in the papers, as his father did.
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"I can't predict what it's going to be like with Joe Girardi vs. Joe Torre because we've never gone through that before," Cashman said. "I can't predict, obviously, a spring training with Hank or Hal as opposed to the last few years because I haven't gone through it before."
Girardi makes his opening address to the media Wednesday, pitchers and catchers report the following day and workouts begin Friday, with position players joining next week. It will be pretty much the same crew that flopped against Cleveland in the first round of last October's playoffs, a four-game loss that led to Torre's departure.
Catcher Jorge Posada and closer Mariano Rivera re-signed, and Andy Pettitte decided not to retire. There's still a logjam at first base and in the outfield, and questions remain about the depth and quality of the starting rotation. The middle relievers still appear to be suspect.
Derek Jeter was looking forward to playing for Girardi, his former teammate.
"I think he's the perfect guy for it. He's played here. He's played under Mr. T. He'll probably have his own style," Jeter said. "You're going to miss Mr. T. He did some great things here, but you have to move on."
Jeter will be less formal with Girardi.
"One, I'll call him Joe," the captain said with a smile. "They're different personalities. It's going to be a different feel."
Only Chien-Ming Wang, Mike Mussina and Pettitte are guaranteed spots in the starting rotation. Phil Hughes and Ian Kennedy - two of the Yankees' prized young prospects - are top candidates for the other two.
Also competing are Kei Igawa - remember him? - Jeff Karstens, Chase Wright, Steven White, Jeffrey Marquez, Alan Horne and Darrell Rasner. Even much maligned Carl Pavano will be on hand, working on his rehab from elbow surgery.
Joba Chamberlain, spectacular as Mariano Rivera's setup man during the final two months of the season, will begin spring training as a starter but could wind up staying in the bullpen. He's just 22, and the Yankees have told Girardi they will limit his use once again.
"Somebody of Chamberlain's talent, he's got to either be a starter or a closer, and we already have a closer," Hank Steinbrenner said. "He wants to be a starter in the long run, and we all want him to be a starter in the long run, so that's what we're going to do. He can start him out as the setup guy. It certainly isn't going to hurt us. It will help out in the bullpen big time in April, in May, and whenever, and it's up to them how to shift him over."
Cashman won't reveal where Chamberlain will wind up.
"The bottom line is we want to limit innings, and there's a number of different avenues to do so," he said. "It just depends on how the rest of the staff shakes out."
As for the rest of the bullpen, LaTroy Hawkins has replaced Luis Vizcaino, and Ross Ohlendorf could merit a long look after working on a splitter during the Arizona Fall League.
And then there are the injury concerns. Left fielder Hideki Matsui is coming off knee surgery. Johnny Damon had leg injuries last year and lost the center field job to Melky Cabrera. Jason Giambi was limited by a foot injury to just 18 games at first base.
Cashman said all start spring training healthy.
"Right now, no issues," he said. Then he paused and added: "We haven't done anything yet."
Notes: RHP Chien Ming Wang said his agent approached the Yankees about a long-term deal, but the team said it was not the time. Wang wants to negotiate a mulityear contract, but felt the Yankees' reason for being against it this offseason was "because the pitchers, it's hard to stay healthy." Wang is scheduled for a salary arbitration hearing this week in which he is seeking $4.6 million. The Yankees countered at $4 million.
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With the surrender of Germany, World War 2 in Europe ends, on VE (Victory in Europe) Day, May 8, 1945. Scene opens with church bells ringing and view of west front of St. Paul's Cathedral, on Ludgate Hill, in London, England. Crowd is celebrating in the square. around the statue of Queen Anne. Amongst the crowd are men and women in uniform. Here and there Union Jack flags are seen, one held by a little girl hoisted upon a man's shoulder. Camera pans across various parts of the celebrating crowds. View from above, of several couples dancing within a circle of people. Several uniformed U.S. Air Force officers in a jeep celebrate with the crowd. High altitude view of Trafalgar Square in London, England. 'Victory over Germany 1945' banner draped on base of Nelson's Column. Crowd of British citizens celebrating on streets of Whitehall and closeup of the Cenotaph with inscription "The Glorious Dead".
Activities of United States Airmen in Germany very soon after end of World War II in Europe. United States Army Air Forces Lieutenants visiting the war-damaged Zeppelintribüne, at the zeppelinfeld, in Nuremberg, Germany, 1945. They climb the stairs of the Zeppelintribüne grandstand. Later, the American soldiers look at the remains of the Swastika and Eagle that formerly adorned the Zeppelintribüne, and was blown up by the U.S. Army. One tries to pick up a piece of it. Airmen stand and chat. One Lieutenant helps another to lit up a cigarette. They smoke cigarettes, and pose for a photograph on the field.
Nazi soldiers at attention with guns drawn in Berlin during World War 2. U.S. soldiers on watch from damaged Berlin building. Man watching Berlin wall with binoculars while sitting in car. Pan American passenger airplane in flight after the war. Pan American passenger reading Time and other magazines. Aerial view of Berlin early 1960s. Pan American plane landing at Tempelhof Airport. Pan American passengers descending to tarmac under sign that reads, "Today Pan American has completed 93153 Transatlantic Crossings" Brandenburg Gate early 1960s. Drive through Brandenburg Gate in the 1920s. Drive through Berlin in the 1920s. Tourist bus flying American flag departs in Berlin 1920s. Berlin University 1920s. Early Nazis driving in Berlin streets. Hitler saluting parade. Hitler addressing Germans. Berlin in ruins Spring 1945 as tanks pass in front of Brandenburg Gate. Old starving woman walks on streets of Berlin amist ruins in 1945. Ruins of Berlin include Reichstag Building during 1945 battle. Women and children emerging from underground Berlin bunker in 1945, to a scene of devastation and rubble in the city. Ground view of the ruined Kaiser Wilhelm Memorial Church (Kaiser-Wilhelm-Gedächtniskirche or Gedächtniskirche). Interior of ruined Reichstag Building. Potsdam Conference 1945, Map of WWII Europe. Berlin map, including official Berlin map with signatures showing Zones of Occupation. Germany allied control authority gathering including American, British, and Soviet representatives. French, American, Soviet flags in Germany. Rebuilding of Berlin mostly by women clearing rubble, using shovels, wheelbarrows and cleaning old bricks for reuse. Over crowded train in Germany post-WWII filled with civilian refugees abandoning the cities and heading to the countryside of Germany to resettle.
Representatives of three nations, seated around table at Potsdam Conference held at Cecilienhof in Potsdam, Germany. British prime minister, Clement Attlee; President of United States, Harry Truman; and representative of Soviet Union, Joseph Stalin at the Potsdam Conference, July 1945. They deliver an ultimatum of unconditional surrender to Japan. Swarms of B-29 bombers and Aircraft Carrier Task Forces destroy Japanese homeland. Planes on carrier decks.Navy Grumman carrier-based TBF aircraft dropping bombs.. Destruction of ships at sea. Mushroom cloud due to atomic bombing. Chart depicts the power of one atomic bomb. Britain's 'grand slam' bomb, most destructive conventional bomb ever produced. Doctor Ernest Orlando Lawrence, inventor of the cyclotron (atom smashing machine). A man works at the Cyclotron at the University of California, Berkeley. General Leslie Groves, head of the project speaks. He is seated with Dr Vannevar Bush, government director of science and research, and Dr Richard Tolman, technical expert. Quantities of uranium shipped from Alberta, Canada are used in bombs. The atomic bomb process (Manhattan Project) is developed in widely separated areas; scenes from Hanford Project plant in Richmond, Washington. Project personnel exit cars and enter into the search area. Lieutenant colonel Franklin T Matthias with the army corps of engineers, appointed to the Hanford Project. Sign of 'Oak Ridge' in Tennessee. Largest of the three atomic bomb plants located near the TVA dam. Employed personnel in atomic bomb plants. Man and woman employees at the plan read a Knoxville Journal newspaper in August 1945 with headline "Power of Oak Ridge Atomic Bomb hits Japs". View of dense prefabricated home communities to house large number of Oak Ridge plant workers. View of families setting up their houses in trailer towns after the prefabricated homes were full. People come out from the Henebry's Jewelers and super market. Joseph Stalin at conference. Russian artillery and troops in a parade at Red Square in Moscow, Russia (these parade scenes are from the May 1, 1945 May Day parade, just days before Germany's surrender). President Harry Truman reports on the latest developments regarding the war with Japan. He states that the United States is prepared to destroy every productive enterprise in Japan and the U.S. shall completely destroy its power to make war. He warns of an attack by the U.S. due to the rejection of the July 26th ultimatum at Potsdam. He warns that Japan "should expect a rain of ruin from the air; the like of which has never been seen on this earth." Truman notes that it will be followed by an unprecedented sea and land invasion of Japan.


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In XA transaction session.addLockToken() does not have effect ------------------------------------------------------------- Key: JCR-1634 URL: https://issues.apache.org/jira/browse/JCR-1634 Project: Jackrabbit Issue Type: Bug Components: jackrabbit-core, locks, transactions Affects Versions: core 1.4.4 Environment: Jackrabbit Core 1.4.4, Jencks 2.0, Springmodules 0.8a, Jackrabbit JCA 1.4 Reporter: Roman Puchkovskiy Following sequence does not work as expected: 1. first tx (and first session) create node make it lockable 2. second tx (and second session) lock this node and save lock token 3. third tx (and third session) add saved lock token to session modify this locked node -> fails as if lock token was not added to session3 The same sequence works as expected without transactions. I had to separate transactions 1 and 2 because JCR-1633 prevents node from being locked in same tx in which it was created. -- This message is automatically generated by JIRA. - You can reply to this email to add a comment to the issue online.
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Netcool Tips
Failover/Failback in OMNIBus 7.3 is different
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  gateway 7.3 omnibus controlled probe failback failover 5,717 Views
Best practice for configuring probe/gateway Failback has been changed in OMNIBus 7.3.
Failback is an OMNIBus client component feature that allows client to connect back to Primary objectserver after it recovers.
In pre-7.3 versions, the best practice are to configure Server , ServerBackup and PollServer in probe properties file as following:
The reason for above configuration is explained very well in those emails (I am attaching those because some of those emails were deleted from INUG archives) :
why shouldn't we use virtual server in probe propsfile
In 7.3 this has been changed due to the introduction of Controlled Failback, you are supposed to use following in probe properties file:
Please be advised that above settings rely on detect_agg_gate_resync_complete,disconnect_all_clients and resync_complete triggers. detailed information can be found here:Configuring Controlled Failback of Clients
Configuring PAM authentication for OMNIBus Gateways
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  gateways netcool omnibus tivoli pam authentication 2 Comments 8,534 Views
There are three server component in OMNIBus that can be configured to use PAM authentication, Process Agent, Objectserver and Gateways.information about how to configure PAM authentication for Process Agent (nco_pad) and Objectserver (nco_objserv) are very well documented in OMNIBus Administration Guide, however, if you follow the Gateway documentation and try to configure PAM for Gateways, you will end up with no success.
The general configuration steps for this task are:
1. Configure Gateway to use PAM authentication.
2. Create PAM module for Gateway.
The first step is documented in the Gateway and Probe Guide. What you need to do is to configure following two properties in gateway propsfile:
Gate.UnixAdminGrp: 'ncoadmin' # STRING (UNIX authentication admin group name.)
Gate.UsePamAuth: FALSE # BOOLEAN (Use PAM as authentication system.)
or use command line options:
-unixadmingrp UNIX authentication admin group name. (default: 'ncoadmin')
-usepamauth Use PAM as authentication system. (default: 'FALSE')
The second step is not mentioned by Objectserver Gateway Guide(pre 7.3), or with wrong information(7.3).
Common sense applies here, as we know from PA and Objectserver need to have their PAM module configured, we must need similar thing for Gateway. the PAM module for PA and Objectserver are 'netcool' and 'nco_objserv' respectfully, but what's the PAM module for gateways?
OMNIBus 7.3 Gateway and Probe Guide says it uses module 'netcool', that means no extra configuration is needed as this module should already be configured when we configure PA. However, when we try to login into gateway using nco_sql we get an authentication failure.
To find out which PAM module does a gateway use, we can use strace on linux(or truss on Solaris/AIX).
following are steps I used on linux in order to find the exact module name used by a particular gateway:
1. Configure the gateway to use PAM authentication, start the gateway as normal, find the PID of the gateway.
[netcool@dlvomn01 bin]$ ps -ef|grep nco_g
netcool 3706 3245 0 03:59 ? 00:00:00 /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/bin/linux2x86/nco_g_tivoli_eif -propsfile /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/etc/D_BABG_TEC_GATE.props
netcool 3747 3245 0 03:59 ? 00:00:03 /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/platform/linux2x86/bin/nco_g_objserv_bi -propsfile /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus/etc/D_BABG_BI_GATE.props
2. run strace as root, attach to the PID of the gateway
[root@dlvomn01 ~]# strace -f -o /tmp/gateway.trace -p 3706
Process 3706 attached with 21 threads - interrupt to quit
3. try login into the gateway using nco_sql
[netcool@dlvomn01 bin]$ pwd
[netcool@dlvomn01 bin]$ ./nco_sql -server D_BABG_BI_GATE -user netcool -password 'netcool'
Failed to connect
Error: Failed to get login token
4. stop the strace.
5. check the trace file.
The trace file looks very complicated unless you are a programmer, however we don't need to understand every bit of it to do some basic trouble shooting. In this case we know that we are trouble shooting a pam issue and on linux the pam configuration files are in /etc/pam.d/ directory.
[root@dlvomn01 pam.d]# grep pam /tmp/gateway.trace
18223 stat64("/etc/pam.d", {st_mode=S_IFDIR|0755, st_size=4096, ...}) = 0
18223 open("/etc/pam.d/nco_g_objserv_bi", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = -1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)
18223 open("/etc/pam.d/other", O_RDONLY|O_LARGEFILE) = 19
18223 open("/lib/security/pam_deny.so", O_RDONLY) = 20
we can see that the bi-directional gateway tried to open file /etc/pam.d/nco_g_objserv_bi and failed with error message "-1 ENOENT (No such file or directory)", from this we can guess that the PAM module for the bi-directional objectserver gateway is nco_g_objserv_bi, which is different with documentation.
This technique can be used on any
Netcool Gateways, for example I find the PAM module for EIF gateway
is called nco_g_tivoli_eif using exactly the same technique.so far we can guess that the PAM module name is same as the gateway binary name.
6. once we find the exact name of the PAM module for the gateway, we can just create the module by copying passwd module, make sure the netcool user can read this file:
[root@dlvomn01 pam.d]# cp /etc/pam.d/login /etc/pam.d/nco_g_objserv_bi
[root@dlvomn01 pam.d]# ls -lart /etc/pam.d/nco_g_objserv_bi
-rw-r--r-- 1 root root 643 Apr 21 13:13 /etc/pam.d/nco_g_objserv_bi
7. restart the gateway and you should be able to login into the gateway using your PAM credentials.
[netcool@dlvomn01 bin]$ ./nco_sql -server D_BABG_BI_GATE -user netcool -password "netcool"
Now you can login into the gateway, the immediate benefit of this in production is that you can change messagelevel on the fly without restarting the gateway:
[netcool@dlvomn01 bin]$ ./nco_sql -server D_BABG_BI_GATE -user netcool -password "netcool"
1> set log level to debug;
2> go
Previous Level Current Level
-------------------- -----------
debug debug
(1 row affected)
Anyone with active Support contract can now raise an APAR against the gateway documentation with above information.
To sum it up, following are what you need to do to configure your gateway to use PAM authentication on linux:
1. Configure Gateway to use PAM authentication, using following two properties in gateway propsfile:
Gate.UnixAdminGrp: 'ncoadmin' # STRING (UNIX authentication admin group name.)
Gate.UsePamAuth: FALSE # BOOLEAN (Use PAM as authentication system.)
or use command line options:
-unixadmingrp UNIX authentication admin group name. (default: 'ncoadmin')
-usepamauth Use PAM
as authentication system. (default: 'FALSE')
2. create a pam module for your gateway:
[root@dlvomn01 pam.d]# cp /etc/pam.d/login /etc/pam.d/nco_g_objserv_bi
3. restart gateway.
Ever wonder why your 'ping from server' tool does work on linux?
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU 7,952 Views
The out-of-box tool 'ping from server' doesn't work on Redhat Linux. If you have this problem you need to do following:
1. the default tool is configured to use /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus_webgui/etc/cgi-bin/nco_ping.cgi , which is for UNIX system other than linux, so the first thing you need to do is to replace the nco_ping.cgi file with nco_ping_linux.cgi.
2. the nco_ping_linux.cgi uses /usr/sbin/ping, which doesn't exist on Redhat V6. find where is 'ping' program located then put the fullpath in the cgi script. line 86.
below is what I've done:
[root@itnm39fp2db2 cgi-bin]# uname -a Linux itnm39fp2db2.test.com 2.6.18-348.3.1.el5 #1 SMP Mon Mar 11 19:40:14 EDT 2013 i686 i686 i386 GNU/Linux [root@itnm39fp2db2 cgi-bin]# pwd /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/omnibus_webgui/etc/cgi-bin
[root@itnm39fp2db2 cgi-bin]# cp nco_ping_linux.cgi nco_ping.cgi cp: overwrite `nco_ping.cgi'? y [root@itnm39fp2db2 cgi-bin]# which ping /bin/ping [root@itnm39fp2db2 cgi-bin]# vi nco_ping.cgi
change line 86 to:
open(PING,"/bin/ping -c 10 ".$nodeName."|");
Integration tips for Alcatel OAD 5529 probe
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  alcatel 5529 probe oad 3,334 Views
I've learned a few tricks integrating OAD 5529 probe with Alcatel 5520 AMS. I am planning to document those tips in coming days.
below is the first:
1. if the Alcatel AMS v6 is later than 6.0.10, then you need OAD probe v6 version 1.5.0 and later. the current GA version is 1.1.0, please contact IBM Tivoli Support to get the latest concessional patch.
firewalls between probe and Alcatel-Lucent SAM 5620
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU 1 Comment 3,735 Views
I had some trouble recently connecting nco_p_alcatel_sam_5620_v8 to a SAM instance in a controlled environment . although the probe connect to SOAP port fine and get can existing alarms, it fails to connect to the JMS port, which is for sub-sequential alarms. the same probe with same setting works fine if the probe and SAM is in one LAN. so this must be a firewall issue.
I used tcpdump to capture all traffics on the good probe, and found all the ports that the probe has send a SYN on, they are:
8443 or 8080 depending on if HTTPS or HTTP is used.
note: the command I used is:
tcpdump -i eth2 host SAMHOSTNAME and 'tcp[tcpflags] & tcp-syn == tcp-syn'
hope this helps.
Note: I've learned a new way of identifying those blocked firewall from my friend James, if you run following command quick enough you should be able to see what's wrong:
netstat -an|grep SYN
Another example of using strace to trouble shoot
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  strace netcool probe omnibus 3,454 Views
strace is a very useful/powerful tool for trouble shoot , not just limited to Netcool. I've shown some examples before such as folllowing:
Integrating OMNIBus with Active Directory via PAM on 64bits Linux?
Configuring PAM authentication for OMNIBus Gateways
I will show another example of trouble shooting using strace, again, this is for a Netcool issue, since I don't know anything else.
I encountered this issue few weeks back. I've setup a Alcatel-Lucent SAM 5620 probe on a Redhat 5.6 64bits server, the probe worked fine, except it was taking 98~99% of CPU.
first I ran strace against the PID of the probe as root user:
#strace -f -o /tmp/strace.out -p <PID>
after couple of seconds, I send Ctrl-C to STDIN then check the contents /tmp/strace.out , I found following lines :
15607 open("/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/_notifier", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
15607 open("/tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach/_notifier", O_WRONLY|O_CREAT|O_EXCL|O_LARGEFILE, 0644) = -1 EACCES (Permission denied)
from this I knew that the probe was trying to open those file and failed.
I stopped the probe, removed /tmp/.com_ibm_tools_attach directory then restarted the probe. it has been running happily since then.
the root cause of this issue was that I had run the probe as root before by accident, and the temporary directory was not removed when probe quit.
I will raise an APAR when I am free.
changing hostname for Deployment Enginee enabled product?
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  enginee de depolyment 3,059 Views
Deployment Enginee is the installer that installs new Tivoli Netcool products, eg, OMNIBus 7.3 , ITNM 3.8 and others.
in older version changing hostname after Netcool application has been installed is not a big deal, admin need to change some application related files and things will be alright.
with those DE enabled product there is one more thing to change.
if the product was installed use root user, admin will need to edit /var/ibm/common/acsi/ACUApplication.properties, change acu.hostname to the changed hostname.
if the product was installed as normal user, eg, netcool, you can find this file in that user's home directory.
you have the choice of not changing this file, the application will run perfectly fine, but you will not be able to install new product or apply patch on top of it.
Configuring ODBC gateway on windows- part 2 - Adding System Datasource
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  regedit omnibus entries nco_g_odbc windows registry 5,449 Views
After adding the drivers into the system registry, it is now time to add a System Datasource entry. I open 'Data Srouce (ODBC)' in Control Panel as a sysadmin, select the System DSN table, click add , select the new DataDirect 5.3 DB2 Wire Protocal driver , click finish and I get a error message "The setup routines for the DataDirect 5.3 DB2 Wire Protocal ODBC driver could not be loaded due to system error code 126" then "could not load the setup or traslator library".
I hate system errors, especially on windows. googling around this time does not give my any hints, what should I do?
I know for a fact that System Data Source are stored in registry, maybe regedit can give me some idea. So I started regedit and search for "DataDirect 5.3", it find something for me like following:
Wait, those directories doesn't look right, I do remember that my ODBC drivers are installed in %OMNIHOME%\ODBC32v53, maybe I should change those PATH and see how it goes.
The problem get resolved after changing the PATH to following, I can finally add a DB2 datasource entry to the System DSN:
I can even do a test and it returned successfully.
Ok, the ODBC thing is now over, I can finally move to next step, configuring the gateway.
This seems to be a product bug in %OMNIHOME%\ODBC32v53\nco_install_drivers.exe.
Configuring ODBC gateway on windows - Part 1 - Adding drivers into system registry.
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  nco_g_odbc registry entries omnibus windows 3,386 Views
After installing nco_g_odbc on windows, the first thing to do is to add ODBC drivers into system registry.
The ODBC Gateway Guide says:
To add the ODBC registry entries, enter the following command:
I can't find this command at above directory and windows search does not return anything with that name.
After exploring around I find %OMNIHOME%\ODBC32V53\nco_install_drivers.exe
After running this command I can see new 5.3 DataDirect ODBC drivers in system.
This seems to be a documentation bug.
Jave probe doesn't start
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  probe netcool nco_p_tivoli_eif omnibus java nonnative-base 4,634 Views
After installing EIF probe, I can't wait to start it and I get following error:
exec: No such file or directory
After making sure that all required environment variables are set, I start looking into nco_jprobe and find that the error is from the last line:
exec $OMNIHOME/probes/$ARCH/nco_p_nonnative java $NCO_JPROBE_JAVA_FLAGS -cp $CLASSPATH $NCO_JPROBE_JAVA_XFLAGS -DOMNIHOME="$OMNIHOME" $PROGRAM "$@"
after changing it to following , the error goes away:
exec $OMNIHOME/probes/$ARCH/nco_p_nonnative /opt/IBM/tivoli/netcool/platform/linux2x86/jre_1.5.6/jre/bin/java $NCO_JPROBE_JAVA_FLAGS -cp $CLASSPATH $NCO_JPROBE_JAVA_XFLAGS -DOMNIHOME="$OMNIHOME" $PROGRAM "$@"
I believe this is a bug in non-native-base.
Edit: by 14/05/2010, this is confirmed as a bug IZ74069: EIF.PROBE REQUIRES MODIFICATION OF JAVA PATHWAY BEFORE IT WILL START.
how to chage JRE for Firefox 3.5 on Ubuntu
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  firefox jre ubuntu 8,158 Views
I use Ubuntu as my primary workstation and have to use different versions of JRE for different Tivoli applications. Following is what I do to change JRE version on the fly:
1. check how many alternative JRE do you have by :
yulei@yulei-laptop:/usr$ sudo update-alternatives --list mozilla-javaplugin.so
2. set JRE:
yulei@yulei-laptop:~$ sudo update-alternatives --config mozilla-javaplugin.so
There are 3 choices for the alternative mozilla-javaplugin.so (providing /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so).
Selection Path Priority Status
0 /usr/lib/j2re1.6-ibm/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 1200 auto mode
1 /usr/lib/j2re1.5-ibm/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so 1190 manual mode
* 2 /usr/lib/j2re1.6-ibm/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 1200 manual mode
3 /usr/lib/j2sdk1.6-ibm/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so 1200 manual mode
Press enter to keep the current choice[*], or type selection number: 1
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/j2re1.5-ibm/jre/bin/libjavaplugin_oji.so to provide /usr/lib/mozilla/plugins/libjavaplugin.so (mozilla-javaplugin.so) in manual mode.
3. if you have a JRE that's not listed on the output from step 2, you can use following to find out:
yulei@yulei-laptop:~$ find /usr -name libjavaplugin_oji.so
we see from above that a Sun java is also installed on this server.
4. manually set to Sun jre:
yulei@yulei-laptop:~$ sudo update-alternatives --set mozilla-firefox-javaplugin.so /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-184.108.40.206/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so
update-alternatives: using /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-sun-18.104.22.168/jre/plugin/i386/ns7/libjavaplugin_oji.so to provide /usr/lib/mozilla-firefox/plugins/libjavaplugin.so (mozilla-firefox-javaplugin.so) in manual mode.
5. restart your firefox and check the current jre using Tools->Manage Content Plugin menu.
ncp_mib must be run before first disco
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  itnm ncp_mib disco 3.8 5,073 Views
After all those hard work, your ITNM is finally installed and configured, you can't wait to start the first disco, but wait, you need to run ncp_mib first before you start ncp.
ncp_mib exists on the TIP server, and it will read all existing MIB, convert and populate the MIB infomation to database, so other SNMP related process can use them, eg ncp_dh_snmp and ncp_poller.
if you don't run ncp_mib before you run your first discovery, all ncp_dh_snmp will not work and you will not have snmp access to any device even if you have the right community string. you will find following errors:
[netcool@dlvtnm01 precision]$ tail -f ncp_dh_snmp.D_BABG.log
04/22/2010 05:09:41 PM: Fatal: [1986983632t] MIB database is not fully populated. Hint: Run the MIB initializer program (ncp_mib) to populate it
04/22/2010 05:09:41 PM: Information: [1986983632t] ncp_dh_snmp shutdown
tip: the ncp_mib binary is only installed on the TIP server, you can find it in $ITNMHOME/bin directory, make sure you source $NCHOME/env.sh before you run it, make sure db2 client is installed and configured.
you should get following output running ncp_mib:
[netcool@dlvtip01 bin]$ ./nco p_mib
ncp_mib ( IBM Tivoli Network Manager MIB Database Updater )
Copyright (C) 1997 - 2008 By IBM Corporation. All Rights Reserved. See product license for details.
IBM Tivoli Network Manager Version 3.8 (Build 56) created by vbenmarq at 09:30:26 Thu Mar 11 GMT 2010
Logging message level set to: warn
ncp_mib is running with m_DbId = MIB
There are new modules on disk to add to database
Relational database requires updating.
This may take a few minutes. Processing...
ncp_mib: Terminating normally
Applying ITNM 3.8 FP3 with DB2 database
ITNM 3.8 FP3 is recently released , it come with a bunch of exciting enhancements, however, the applying process is a bit complicated and sometimes buggy.
There are six post-installation steps and I get stuck on step one, Updating NCIM (Mandatory).
The instruction provided by the FP3 README file is simple, I am supposed to run the updatePrecisionGUIDb.sh against my db2 database. After I run the command I get some errors.
After reading the script, I understand that it uses $NCHOME/precision/scripts/sql/db2/updatePrecisionGUIDb.sql to update the db2 database, but all db2 database command in this file are wrong in syntax :
1. db2 command does not end with ';'
2. db2 does not like carriage returns or line feeds.Make your commands be on one long line or use "\" for multiple lines.
ok, so causes found, we just need to remove all ending '';' from all db2 commands, and append "\" at the end of each statement of those those multi-line db2 commands,or simply make them one big line.
After this the updatePrecisionGUIDb.sh script runs happily.
To make your life easier, I've attached the modified $NCHOME/precision/scripts/sql/db2/updatePrecisionGUIDb.sql below.
Applying ITNM 3.8 Fixpack 2/3 without GUI
Applying Fixpack 2/3 to ITNM 3.8 on Linux/UNIX machine can be painful if you don't have X installed.
The TIP component is delivered as a eWas application,hence eWas Updater must be installed before you can apply Fixpack2/3 to any system that contains TIP.
After unpacking eWas Updater and invoking the install script, nothing happens and the script returns to command prompt with no error message.
the eWas Updater installation logfile can be found in ~/updilogs,below is what I've got from a failed install:
[netcool@dlvtip01 updilogs]$ cat /log.txt
(Apr 21, 2010 10:20:55 AM), Install, com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, wrn, could not initialize interface swing - trying awt
(Apr 21, 2010 10:20:55 AM), Install, com.installshield.wizard.StandardWizardListener, err, could not initialize interface awt
Both swing and awt are Java APIs that provide GUI for Java programs, those errors mean the Updater installer failed because it can't initialize GUI mode.
After googling around I find following bug:
the APAR is closed and it is stated that the fix will be available in next interim fix.
However, I couldn't wait that long, after reading the E-WAS documentation I find that the Updater provides a silent mode, maybe that will address my issue.
the example response file come with the Updater is well commented, after minal modification the response file is ready:
[netcool@dlvtip01 UpdateInstaller]$ cat responsfile|grep -v "^#"
-OPT silentInstallLicenseAcceptance="true"
-OPT allowNonRootSilentInstall="true"
-OPT disableOSPrereqChecking="true"
-OPT installLocation="/home/netcool/IBM/WebSphere/UpdateInstaller"
I started the Updater Installer in silent mode this time:
./install -options "/opt/IBM/tivrepos/itnm38_fp3/wsupdater/UpdaterInstaller/responsfile" -silent
this time the installation is fine. Happy fixpacking :)
I've attached a working response file that can be used on unix/linux install:
switch messagelevel for probes on the fly
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To change the message level of a running probe to run in debug mode, issue the command kill -USR2 pid on the probe process ID.
Each time you issue the command kill -USR2 pid, the message level is cycled.
For non-native probes, issue the kill command on the nco_p_nonnative process ID.
To find out if your probe is a non-native probe, you can check which wrapper script the probe is linking, for examaple:
[netcool@dlvomn01 probes]$ pwd
[netcool@dlvomn01 probes]$ ls -lart
total 92
-rwxr-xr-x 1 netcool ncoadmin 1575 Oct 7 2009 nco_probe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 netcool ncoadmin 1372 Oct 30 15:01 nco_pprobe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 netcool ncoadmin 1291 Oct 30 15:01 nco_nnsaprobe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 netcool ncoadmin 9 Mar 24 17:45 nco_p_syntax -> nco_probe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 netcool ncoadmin 9 Mar 25 14:15 nco_p_syslogd -> nco_probe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 netcool ncoadmin 9 Mar 25 14:16 nco_p_mttrapd -> nco_probe
drwxrwxr-x 2 netcool ncoadmin 4096 Mar 25 14:18 perl
drwxrwxr-x 2 netcool ncoadmin 4096 Mar 25 14:18 java
lrwxrwxrwx 1 netcool ncoadmin 10 Mar 25 14:18 nco_p_tivoli_eif -> nco_jprobe
-rwxr-xr-x 1 netcool ncoadmin 3988 Mar 25 17:30 nco_jprobe
lrwxrwxrwx 1 netcool ncoadmin 9 Mar 26 14:06 nco_p_simnet -> nco_probe
from above output we see that the tivoli_eif probe is a non-native probe.
ITNM 4.1 embedded db2 doesn't auto-start
ITNM 4.1 installation package has db2 embedded. DB2 Enterprise Server 10.1 can be installed as part of ITNM 4.1 installation process.
If you use default settings, ITNM 4.1 will install OMNIBus , ITNM core, TIP and DB2 configure auto-start for those components... Auto-start works for all components except DB2, which result in ncp_model and a number of key components fail to start:
To fix this issue, if the operating system is Redhat 5, the latest fixpack for DB2 10.1 should be applied..At the time of writing, the latest fixpack for 10.1 is FP3... Download links can be found below:
when installing the fixpack, use $NCHOME/platform/linux2x86/db2 as base install directory for db2...
if the operating system is Redhat 6, on top of the fixpack of DB2, following instructions should be followed:
Hope this helps...
Prerequisite Scanner gives empty result
Yulei.Liu.AU 270001E5WU Tags:  itncm tivoli installation prerequisite scanner netcool itnm tncm 1 Comment 5,923 Views
Most of Netcool product installer now come with Prerequisite Scanner, which analyzes system environments before the installation or upgrade of a Tivoli product or IBM solution... it is a great tool however it may reports empty result as below:
It is recommended to review the Prerequisite checking results before proceeding... With empty output there is no way you can find if the check is successful.
The most common reason is because 'ksh' is not installed... Prerequisite checking tool use ksh as the default script and by default ksh is not installed on most OS except AIX.
To fix this please install ksh before starting the installation process... Ideally ksh should be listed as required package in product installation guide.
Re-create NNADB
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[root@nnarep install_tasks]# pwd
[root@nnarep install_tasks]# mv DATABASE_INSTALL.done DATABASE_INSTALL.done.old
[root@nnarep database]# pwd
[root@nnarep database]# mv database.properties database.properties_old
3. edit database.properties , replace all encrypted password with clear text password, eg:
4. on reporting server, run:
[root@nnarep swrepo]# ksh start_install -textonly
Choose a destination folder for this installation [/opt/IBM]:
Warning: /opt/IBM/nna already exists. Press ^C
to quit or wait 5 seconds to continue.
Making installation tasks record: /opt/IBM/nna/admin/install_tasks
Making software archive directories: under /opt/IBM/nna/admin/software
Performing installation task DATABASE_INSTALL...
No compile client found - proceeding...
Create database 'nnadb' ...
.... Database Creation finished successfully
.... Log file is located in /opt/IBM/nna/admin/db-install/schema/create_db.log
Generating calendar entries...
Create database 'nnadb' schema...
.... Database Schema Creation finished successfully
.... Log file is located in /opt/IBM/nna/admin/db-install/schema/create_db_schema.log
Running the Post install steps...
.... post Install steps finished successfully
.... Log file is located in /opt/IBM/nna/admin/db-install/schema/create_db_schema.log
Initializing Dictionary...
.... Initializing Dictionary finished successfully
.... Log file is located in /opt/IBM/nna/admin/db-install/schema/create_db_schema.log
Running Post Initialize on data dictionary...
.... Data Dictionary post initialization finished successfully
.... Log file is located in /opt/IBM/nna/admin/db-install/schema/create_db_schema.log
Setting up the data retention period ...
Setting retention period to '90'
Adjusting permissions on /opt/IBM/nna...
NNA install complete.
5.on Netezza, encrypt passwd and compile db:
[nz@netezza sbin]$ ./encrypt_dwh_passwords
Encryption succeded. Removing plaintext data...
[nz@netezza sbin]$ unset NZ_PASSWORD
[nz@netezza sbin]$ ./database_compile
Compiling UDF...
.... UDFs compilation finished successfully
.... Log file is located in ./../src/compile_db_schema.log
Reinitialised Netezza
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su - nz
nzinitsystem -reinit
cp ~/system.cfg /nz/data/config/
nzstart -newSystem
Installing OMNIBus 7.3.1 probes/gateways on 7.1 base
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To install OMNIBus 7.3.1 probes and gateway on 7.1 base, you need to install the OMNIBus 7.1 fixpack that's later than Interim Fixpack 8, then follow my previous blog entry:
if 7.1 fixpack is not installed you will have no problem installing probes/gateways, but you will get following error:
How to return to classic Gnome in Ubuntu 12.04 Precise
Ubuntu 12.04 LTS is released, unfortunately Unity is still the default interface, if you want to go back to classic Gnome as I do, below is how to:
Gnome session package name has changed from 11.04 to 12.04, the new package name is gnome-shell.
First, start Ubuntu software center as below:
then type "gnome shell" in the search bar, then install GNOME Shell.
Logout then login, you can now select Gnome Classic in the login screen:
Installing ITNM 3.9 TIP and Core accross NAT?
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I've recently done an ITNM deployment where ITNM Core and ITNM TIP are located on different network zone and there is a NAT gateway between them.
The ip address of ITNM TIP is 144.x.x.x, the ip address of ITNM is 124.x.x.x. TIP can only talk to Core using 10.x.x.x address.
ITNM Core is installed first, NCIM is installed on ITNM Core server.
when installing TIP, NATted address(10.x.x.x) is supplied for the NCIM details.
After login to TIP, the defined domain is there, but no discovery configuration can be retrieved.
the servicedata.cfg file on TIP are using the natted address of Core server, problem still exists.
Mike O'dell from Level 2 support mentioned that Topoviz retrieves this information from ncim.domainmgr, instead of servicedata.cfg. Thanks for the tip and below command fixed the issue:
bash-3.00# ./ncp_oql -domain NCOMS -service NCIM -username ncim
ncp_oql ( IBM Tivoli Network Manager OQL Interface )
Copyright (C) 1997 - 2010 By IBM Corporation. All Rights Reserved. See product license for details.
IBM Tivoli Network Manager Version 3.9 (Build 32) created by ncpbuild at 04:09:5 3 Wed Feb 9 GMT 2011
Connected to INFORMIX DB schema NCIM
|server01:1.> select * from ncim.domainmgr;
|server01:2.> go
1 rows(s)
|server01:1.> update ncim.domainmgr set DOMAINHOST='10.152.17.205';
|server01:2.> go
0 rows(s)
|server01:1.> select * from ncim.domainmgr;
|server01:2.> go
1 rows(s)
Integration tips for Alcatel OAD 5529 probe - part 3 - how to use sun java to start the oad probe
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the best place to do this is in $OMNIHOME/probes/java/alcatel_5529_oad_v6.env file, add following line to the begining:
export JAVA_HOME="FULL_PATH_TO_YOUR_JAVA"
after the change, please run the probe with -version command line option to verify that you are not using IBM java runtime.
Integration tips for Alcatel OAD 5529 probe - which java to use
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if you are integrating with AMS over HTTP without SSL, then you can use the JRE distributed by OMNIBus install.
if you are integrating with AMS over HTTPS, then you have to use Sun Java 1.6 or later. you have to install Sun java seperately, otherwise you will get following error:
2011-09-06T11:39:47: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: UseSsl-> true
2011-09-06T11:39:47: Debug: D-JPR-000-000: Retrieving the TopicConnectionFactory = SSLConnectionFactory
2011-09-06T11:39:48: Information: I-JPR-104-000: [stderr] log4j:WARN No appenders could be found for logger (com.alcatel.axs.management.
2011-09-06T11:39:48: Information: I-JPR-104-000: [stderr] log4j:WARN Please initialize the log4j system properly.
2011-09-06T11:40:49: Debug: D-JPR-000-000: Creating a TopicConnection
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Error: E-JPR-000-000: Exception received : null
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: <<<<< Entering... alcatel_5529_oad.rules >>>>>
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: A value for 'svass0000030np' doesn't exist in lookup table 'OAD_PhysicalName_table' - using default
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: A value for 'alcatel_5529_oad_v6' doesn't exist in lookup table 'OAD_ServiceAffecting_table' - using default
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: <<<<< Leaving... alcatel_5529_oad.rules >>>>>
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: Rules file processing took 641 usec.
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: Flushing events to object servers
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Debug: D-UNK-000-000: Flushing events to object servers
2011-09-06T11:41:07: Error: E-JPR-000-000: Unable to get events
Caused by: null
Caused by: Error initializing socket factory SSL context: SunX509 KeyManagerFactory not available
Note: you can use 64bits or 32bits Sun Java. both work.
ITNM component status
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itnm_status command gives up/down status for all ITNM related process, eg:
[root@testinghost]# itnm_status ncp
Network Manager:
Domain: NCOMS
ncp_ctrl RUNNING PID=5598 NCOMS
ncp_store RUNNING PID=6300 NCOMS
ncp_class RUNNING PID=6304 NCOMS
ncp_model RUNNING PID=6553 NCOMS
ncp_disco WAIT_HB PID=6652 NCOMS
ncp_d_helpserv RUNNING PID=6305 NCOMS
ncp_config RUNNING PID=6307 NCOMS
ncp_poller(default) RUNNING PID=6736 NCOMS
nco_p_ncpmonitor RUNNING PID=6352 NCOMS
ncp_g_event RUNNING PID=6653 NCOMS
ncp_webtool RUNNING PID=6353 NCOMS
ncp_virtualdomain RUNNING PID=6936 NCOMS
following is a list of possible status and their meanings:
RUNNING: obvious
FAILED: obvious
WAITING: the process is waiting for all depending process to be in RUNNING status.
WAIT_HB: the process is up, ncp_ctrl is yet to receive heartbeat from the process.
Note: only process that can send heartbeat to ncp_ctrl can be managed.


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Date: 1785
II. noun
Date: circa 1785
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A University Professor and Hospital Practitioner (PUPH), Yves Maugars has headed the Rheumatology unit of the Nantes University Hospital since 1999. A graduate of the Nantes Faculty of Medicine, he is also a graduate of Chiropody and has a DEA diploma in Bio-mechanics and Bio-materials.
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here is the unreleased music video from the second Lotus' single Just a Fool. Enjoy it ;)
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Tips for Helping Stepfamilies Get Off to a Smoother Beginning
Any new marriage has its hurdles. But when the newlyweds also bring children from previous marriages, they face the additional challenge of trying to balance the needs of the relationship with the needs of the kids.
It's rarely as easy as the Brady Bunch made it seem.
Too frequently, partners imagine that because they love each other, their children will jump on board and will also love this new partner as a stepparent. In reality, children are often confused and have contradictory emotions about the new family setup.
Frustration can set in when the union fails to create instant family unity.
Try not to let it. Everyone needs time to adjust and it's up to the new couple to develop strategies for making this blended family work. For starters, each parent should be responsible for managing his or her children's schedules, providing discipline and communicating with the ex-partner about any parenting issues.
You should expect that it's going to be a rocky ride, and you can be pleasantly surprised if it's not. Remember, the kids did not get a vote in this, and they very well may dislike the stepparent or stepsiblings.
But, as with many things in life, patience mixed with a trial-and-error approach can get you where you need to be. Here are a few tips for easing the difficulties, if not eliminating all the pain:
- Manage expectations. When creating a blended family, managing your expectations will decrease the odds of being disappointed. Discuss your ideas for how the transition will go and set a reasonable bar for how you, your spouse, the children and any former spouses will respond to the new arrangement. Plan for a slow transition into this "new normal."
- Keep communications with former spouses cordial. Some relationships with ex-spouses run more smoothly than others. Ideally, former spouses would communicate respectfully and keep in mind the best interests of the children. That doesn't always happen, though. If an ex-spouse gets under your skin too much, you might try self-soothing techniques such as meditating, exercising, taking a walk or journaling. You may also want to consider seeing a therapist. It will benefit your current relationship if you can minimize the conflict with a former partner.
- Nurture your romance. With so many challenges balancing parental and relational responsibilities, you will need to give extra effort to setting aside kid-free time. Making time for just the two of you is critical to the success of your relationship. Without proper attention, the new relationship can drop down the priority list as you get caught up in smoothing the transition for the children, creating a blended home, and growing comfortable with your role as stepparent. Make it a point to prioritize dates, whether over coffee, lunch, dinner or during a walk together.
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