The Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Server has attributes for monitoring enterprise logs and status. Global attributes are also available for use alone or combined with other attribute groups in situations.
Every monitoring agent connects to a Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server, which acts as a collection and control point for alerts received from the agents, and gathers performance and availability data from them. The main, or hub, monitoring server correlates the monitoring data collected by agents and remote servers and passes it to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server for presentation in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
Monitoring agents are made up of attributes, which represent the properties of systems or networks, such as the amount of CPU usage or the message ID. Attributes are organized into attribute groups. The attributes in a group can be displayed in a query-based view (table, chart or relational topology) or used to specify a condition for testing in a situation. When you open the view or start the situation, data samples are taken of the selected attributes.
The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server has attribute groups that you can use for reporting the status of enterprise activities, monitoring agents, and situations:
The Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server also has several global attribute groups for using alone or combining with a product attribute group to create situations:
You can also work with attributes of other applications by creating SQL queries to retrieve them from ODBC-compliant databases.