IV12563: NESTED SITUATION GROUPS DO NOT DISPLAY ALL SITUATIONS

IBM Tivoli Monitoring 6.2.2 Fix Pack 9 (6.2.2-TIV-ITM-FP0009)

APAR status

• Closed as program error.

Error description

• PROBLEM DESCRIPTION:
  
  Creating a situation in a situation group that is part of
  another situation group.  Displaying situations for the group
  that has a nested situation group, will not display situations
  that are part of the nested situation group.
  
  RECREATE INSTRUCTIONS:
  
  1) Create MSL MyLinuxServer and add LZ agent to it, lets say
  myserver:LZ
  2) Create Situation MySituation to monitor lets say /opt > 90%
  3) Create Situations Group MySitL1Group
  4) Create another Situations Group MySitL2Group and add it as a
  member
  to MySitL1Group
  5) Add MySituation to MySitL2Group
  6) Distribute MySitL1Group to MyLinuxServer  MSL
  7) Select myserver:LZ in navigator, right-click -> "manage
  situations"
  8) fail - the MySituation will NOT show up in the dialog
  
  I replicated this condition and observed that the
  
  tacmd listsit -m xxxx
  
  did not include situation MySituation. In the Agent operations
  log, the
  situation was seen to start.
  

Local fix

• Use tacmd listsit to display all the situations that are part of
  any nested groups.
  
  Distributing each group individually will cause the situations
  to appear in the Manage Situations display.
  

Problem summary

• In the Manage Situations dialog box, situations that are
  distributed to the selected agent via a nested situation group
  are not shown in the list of situations.
  
  
  Situation groups can be nested within other situation groups.
  If the parent situation group is distributed to a managed system
  or managed system list, the situations assigned to the nested
  group are not displayed in the Manage Situation dialog box.
  

Problem conclusion

• The behavior has been corrected to recursively descend all
  nested situation groups when collecting the list of situations
  distributed to a managed system.
  
  The fix for this APAR is contained in the following maintenance
  
  packages:
  | fix pack | 6.2.2-TIV-ITM-FP0009
  

Temporary fix

Comments

APAR Information

• APAR is sysrouted FROM one or more of the following:

• APAR is sysrouted TO one or more of the following:

Fix information

• Fixed component name

  TEP

• Fixed component ID

  5724C04EP

Applicable component levels

• R622 PSY

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