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ThischapterdescribesthenecessaryconceptsandprocedurestomaintainanADMdeployment.Thischapter
includesthefollowingtopics:
“A D M Services”onpage 39
“ProductSupportPackages”onpage 40
“RestoringanADMEnvironmentbyUsingaProductSupportPackageonpage 42
“Licenses”onpage 45
ADM Services
Table 51describesthemainADMservices.
Managing Services with adm_control
ADMprovidestheadm_control.plscripttostart,stop,andmonitorADMservices.Youcanstartorstopany
service,butifyoustopanyservicealldependentservicesarestoppedasaresult.Alldependentservicesis
listedduringthestopprocess.Table 52listsanddescribesthecommandsforthe
ADMservices.
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Table 5-1. ADM Services
Service name Description
apache Webserverservice.
active_probe ServiceresponsibleforperformingDetailDiscoveryandrunsonLinuxCollectorsandtheWindows
virtualmachine.Thisserviceperforms:
WMIbaseddiscoveryontheWindowsCollector
SSH,SNMP,VISDK,andTelnetbaseddiscoveryontheUNIXCollector
engine ThecoreofADMandincludesthefollowingcomponents:
Userinterface
Management
Reconciliations
Analytic
listener ServiceresponsibleforthePassiveDiscoverymechanisms.
vnc PhysicalIBMCollectorsonly.
ThevncserviceenablesVNCaccesstotheWindowsinstancesothattheIPaddresscanbeconfigured.
vmware PhysicalIBMCollectorsonly.
TheWindowsinstanceontheapplianceisinstalledonavirtualmachine.Thevmwareservicestarts
VMwaresothat
theWindowsinstancecanstart.
watchdog Servicethatmonitorsthehealthoftheotherservices.Ifanotherservicehasaproblem,watchdog
servicetriestoidentifytheserviceandresolvetheproblem.