Associating a situation

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.

1. 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.
2. 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.

3. Click Situation Filter to open the Show Situations window.
4. 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.
5. 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.
   • In the State area, select a different state.
   • In the "Sound" area, select Enable. If you want to change the sound, click Edit.

     This ability to change the event state and sound enables you to qualify the severity of a situation for different Navigator items.

6. Right-click the situation to associate with the Navigator item and click Associate.
7. 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.
8. 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.