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Workspace ITM/IBM APM
Created by Guest
Created on May 28, 2025

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Need ability to customize the temp directory used by ITM product

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Currently as required by some of the OS hardening best practices, the native /tmp partition of the OS is required to me mounted as 'NOEXEC' .

With this set in place, tacmd update Agent commands, nor installs work on a clean system. It is not possible to remount this partition to EXEC flag , finish patching and renable it always.

And system admins are reluctant to do it on a regular basis.

 

Hence requesting code adjustment, so that the ITM product can use some variable or a product temp directory something like /opt/IBM/tmp , so that it is self contained, and document this, this way we can force the OS hardening people not to touch the product's temp directory

 

Idea priority Urgent
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    SRIDHAR Venkatesh
    Jun 24, 2025

    ITM engineering team recommends cleaning up the old depot location and recreate a new depot after setting the DEPOTHOME to an acceptable location.
    From ITM documentation:
    If you do not already have an agent depot, the bundles are added to the location defined by DEPOTHOME environment variable in the KBBENV environment fie.
    Since the value is empty (DEPOTHOME=), it went to the /tmp directory. By moving it to the new location, the issue should be fixed.

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