If you access the Situation editor through the toolbar
to create situations, no alert will be visible in the Navigator when
the situation becomes true until you associate the situations with
a Navigator item.
About this task
For each Navigator item you want to associate a situation
with, do the following steps:
Procedure
- Right-click the Navigator item to which you want to associate
a situation.
If this is a correlated situation, right-click
the

Enterprise Navigator item.
- Click
Situations.
Situations is displayed in the
menu for all Navigator items in the Physical view except for those
at the operating platform level (such as

Linux Systems). The Enterprise item is limited to Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server situations distributed to *HUB_ or *ALL_CMS managed
systems. A Navigator item in a custom Navigator view must have at
least one managed system assigned to it, or you will not see
Situations in the menu.
The
Situation editor opens with the list of situations that have been
associated with this Navigator item.
- Click
Situation
Filter to open the Show Situations window.
- Select
Eligible
for Association and clear
Associated with this Object. If
you are associating a situation with the Enterprise item in the Navigator
Physical view, also select
Associated with Monitored Application.
- If you want to apply a different event state to the situation
than the default critical state (or the one it was created with) or
you want to apply an event sound, select the situation from the tree,
then do one or both of the following.
- Right-click the situation to associate with the Navigator
item and click
Associate.
- When you are finished, check your work by clicking
Situation
Filter, clearing
Eligible for Association,
and selecting
Associated
with this Object. The situations you associated with
this Navigator item are displayed in the list.
- To save your changes, click Apply to
keep the Situation editor open; -OR- click OK to
close it.
Results
Tip: If you have multiple
situations to associate, you can use Ctrl+click to select additional
situations to associate or Shift+click to select all situations between
and including the first selection and this one. Be aware that the

Critical state and no
sound will be applied to this Navigator item.