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TobenNelson

Mike- There's no way in any ITM version to monitor ASCII files via the attribute groups available to the Windows OS agent, so in this sense the Windows platform lacks something equivalent to the UL agent on the UNIX/Linux side. It isn't very difficult to configure the "File" data provider in the Universal Agent on Windows, though, so I would highly encourage you to take a look at the 6.21 UA User's Guide (http://publib.boulder.ibm.com/infocenter/tivihelp/v15r1/index.jsp?topic=/com.ibm.itm.doc_6.2.1/welcome.htm ---> Version 6.2.1 ---> User's Guides ---> Tivoli Universal Agent User's Guide ---> PDF) and play with the various types of log file monitoring options available in the "File Data Provider" section of Chapter 4. I've found the options available to the UA for log file monitoring to be more flexible and simpler to implement than the format statements you must create within the kulconfig file for the UL agent on UNIX/Linux. Hopefully you can come up to speed on the UA's File Data Provider quickly because it's a very powerful and useful method.