Situations

Situations are descriptions of conditions that you want to monitor on your z/OS systems. OMEGAMON for z/OS provides predefined situations which check for system conditions that are typically considered to be problematic or noteworthy and trigger event indicators in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Navigator.

Predefined situations must be distributed and started before they can begin monitoring. Evaluate each situation carefully and adjust its thresholds before you activate them. Some situations are shipped with very high or very low values, which essentially disable them. You should examine these situations and customize them with values that are meaningful for your installation.

You can examine the conditions or values being monitored using the Situation editor in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and, if necessary, change them to ones better suited to your environment. You can also use the predefined situations as models for creating your own situations using OMEGAMON for z/OS attributes.

Note: If you choose to make changes to a predefined situation, create a copy of the situation and edit the copy to preserve the original situation in the form in which it was shipped and so your new situation is not overwritten when the product is updated.