7.2 System hierarchy management
In IM Configuration Management, you can operate the IM configuration management viewer to manage agents and remotely monitored hosts on an integrated basis through the system hierarchy (IM configuration).
By defining the system hierarchy, you will be able to manage the JP1/Base profiles (for agent configuration) and profiles of remote monitored hosts.
To manage the system hierarchy, you must first register the hosts configured in the system in the IM Configuration Management database. For agents, JP1/Base must be running on the agent hosts.
When you use IM Configuration Management to manage the system hierarchy, either of the following operations causes an inconsistency between the configuration definition information held by IM Configuration Management and that held by JP1/Base:
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Editing the JP1/Base configuration definition file
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Executing the jbsrt_distrib command
We therefore recommend that if you use IM Configuration Management to manage the system hierarchy, you use IM Configuration Management to centralize configuration management.
If you have used JP1/Base functionality to distribute the system hierarchy definition, you must obtain the system hierarchy to make the configuration definition information held by IM Configuration Management consistent with that held by JP1/Base.
This section describes the hierarchical configurations you can manage using IM Configuration Management, and the functionality provided for this purpose.