Tivoli Management Framework Accounts and Administrators

This page details problems and issues relating to Tivoli Management Framework Accounts and Administrators.

Changing the "tmersrvd" Account that Framework Uses [28/5/03]
How Do I Clone an Administrator? [23/7/02]
How Do I Delete Entries from an ID Map? [25/7/02]
Setting up Single Tivoli Account Access across Platforms [23/12/02]

Changing the "tmersrvd" Account that Framework Uses

Contributed By: Gary Hamilton
Here's some help and advice if you're trying to change the tmersrvd account from a local Windows account to a Domain account without much success... [Go to the article]

How Do I Clone an Administrator?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
So you've gone to all of that trouble to setup your Tivoli Administrator account just the way you want it, but wouldn't it be handy if you could copy this to use as the basis for other users? Well you can check out the Cloning an Administrator article on the Hot Tips page.

How Do I Delete Entries from an ID Map?

I've added an entry into an ID map that I no longer need, but I'm having trouble deleting it. I added it using the "widmap add_entry <map_name> <interp> <idname>" command (for example "widmap add_entry SWDist nw4 Cliff"), but I'm struggling to remove this entry.

I've tried the following commands below but none of them seem to work:

widmap rm_entry nw4 Cliff
widmap rm_entry Cliff nw4
widmap rm_entry SWDist nw4 Cliff

Can anyone help?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
The syntax for the widmap command for deleting an entry is:

widmap rm_entry <map_name> <interp>

So using the above example you should be using the following command:

widmap rm_entry SWDist nw4

Setting up Single Tivoli Account Access across Platforms

I've got a multi platform environment and was wondering if it's possible to have a single login to Tivoli or do I need to setup separate accounts for each user account on each platform?

Contributed By: Cliff Hobbs [MVP SMS]
You can use the widmap command to achieve this single signon as follows:

First you need to create an ID map using the "widmap add_map <map_name>" command. The map can be called anything you want, but it's probably best to call it something along the lines of the user you're setting up access for. So, if for example I was setting up access for the user "cliff", I'd use the following command:

widmap add_map cliff
Next you need to add in entries for each of the operating system platforms the user is going to need access to and the accounts to be used on those platforms using the "widmap add_entry <map_name> <platform> <account_name>" command. So if a user has an account called "cliffs" on the Solaris platform you'd use the following command:

"widmap add_entry cliff solaris2 cliffs"

Let's also say that the user has an account called "cliffNT" on the Windows platform that you also want them to be able to use by logging into Tivoli as "cliff", then you'd use the following command:

"widmap add_entry cliff w32-ix86 cliffNT"
To check that you've successfully added the entries to the "cliff" map you'd use the "widmap list_entries <map_name>" command, which in this case would be "widmap add_map cliff".
The next step is to configure the Tivoli account. Load the Tivoli Desktop and from Administrators collection either create a new user or edit the user if they've already been setup.
In the "User Login Name:" box enter "$<map_name>" (which would be "$cliff" in this example). The "$" is vital as it tells Tivoli that this is a login map and not a 'normal' Tivoli account.
Dismiss the message about the fact that if the user currently has a copy of the Desktop loaded they'll need to logout/in in order to pickup the changes.
When the user loads the Tivoli Desktop, in the "Log In As:" box, the user still needs to login to Tivoli using a valid account on the operating system on which Tivoli is validating them, NOT the map name.