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You can check the MDist2 GUI to follow up the distribution status. However,

when you see that the package distribution was successful, this only indicates

that the software package was published to the Web Gateway successfully. You

can check the location of the published package if you open the Software

Distribution log file of the current distribution.

In order to check the status of the distribution using the MDist2 GUI, click the

Distribution Status icon on the Tivoli Desktop. This will open the MDist2

program in a separate window. If you click All Distributions in the navigation

bar, you will see the status of the distribution you submitted.

Figure 4-52 Checking Distribution Status in MDist2

You also can follow the distribution on the PDA display. If you connect to the

server, it will find a job that has been submitted, and starts the installation

automatically. Figure 4-53 on page 148 shows a sequence of windows of the

installation procedure.

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Figure 4-53 IBM Device Agent - performing software distribution

After the installation procedure is finished, start Acrobat Reader to check if it is

working.

Figure 4-54 Software up and running

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4.4.3 Running inventory on the WinCE/PocketPC

In this section, we explain how to perform an inventory scan on the

WinCE/PocketPC device. The following steps need to be followed:

1. We have already created the InventoryConfig profile for the WinCE/PocketPC

devices as shown in the Policy Region structure diagram in Figure 4-1 on

page 101. The profile name is pf.pervasive_devices.inv.wince and it is created

under the Profile Manager pm.pervasive_devices.inv.wince. We also

subscribed the rg.pervasive_devices.wince resource group to the Profile

Manager.

Figure 4-55 Inventory Profile Manager for Palm

2. To customize the InventoryConfig profile, we disabled all scanning options

other than related pervasive devices, such as PC hardware and software

scans and UNIX and OS/400 hardware and software scans. We selected only

the following options in the Pervasive devices window:

– Hardware Scan - ON

– Software Scan - ON

– Device Configuration Scan - ON

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Figure 4-56 Inventory profile administration - Pervasive Devices

3. Once the InventoryConfig profile is customized, we perform the inventory

scan on rg.pervasive_devices.wince resource group.

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Figure 4-57 Inventory scan on the rg.pervasive_devices.wince resource group

4. You can follow the inventory scan by checking the lcfd.log on the Tivoli Web

Gateway’s lcf directory and on the MDist2 console. However, a successful

status only means that the Tivoli Web Gateway has received the request.

5. By issuing the wwebgw -l @<TWG_hostname> command, we can see if the Tivoli

Web Gateway has scheduled the inventory scan for the PocketPC device.

Example 4-8 The scheduled inventory scan

# wwebgw -l @itcmpda5

Web Gateway endpoint: @itcmpda5

Distribution ID Application ID

--------------- --------------

1148766224.87 1148766224#Inventory