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Status Submitted
Created by Guest
Created on Sep 1, 2025

Execute file rights need to be removed from AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files

For security reasons, execute file rights need to be removed from all AlwaysOn Servermon configuration files. 

IBM support confirmed that the execute file rights are not required and can be removed.

Example: 

/opt/tivoli/tsm/server/bin/servermon# ls -al
total 149736
drwxr-xr-x 3 root system 256 May 12 2024 .
drwxr-xr-x 8 root system 4096 May 12 2024 ..
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 41445 Dec 08 2023 commands.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 13126 Dec 08 2023 commandscustom.ini
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 76589316 Dec 08 2023 servermon
-rwxr-xr-x 1 root system 2772 Dec 08 2023 servermon.ini

Idea priority Low
  • Guest
    Sep 1, 2025

    I erroneously selected low priority which is not correct. The priority of this IDEA for customer is high.