Deleting a situation

Use the Situation editor to delete situations. Keep in mind that deleting a situation removes it from every managed system to which it was distributed.

About this task

To delete a situation:

Procedure

Perform any of the following steps to open the Situation editor:

Right-click a Navigator item and click Situations. (See Note if you do not see this option.)
Click in the toolbar.
Right-click a situation in the event flyover list and click Edit Situation.
Right-click an event item in the Navigator and click Edit Situation.
Right-click an open event in the situation event console view and click Edit Situation.
Right-click the enterprise item or an agent item in the Navigator Physical view and click Manage Situations. Select a situation and click Edit Situation.

Results

Right-click the situation name in the tree on the left.
If you do not see the situation, click Situation Filter and select all of the options.

You can use Ctrl+click to select additional situations or Shift+click to select all situations between and including the first selection and this one.
Click Delete to permanently remove the situation selection.
If a progress bar is displayed, you can click Stop to pause, then Resume when you are ready to continue, or Cancel to stop the operation.
If this situation is referenced (embedded) in another situation or in a policy, a Referential Integrity window opens with a list of the affected objects and you must complete the following steps before you can delete the situation:
1. Click Copy if you want to save the list to the Windows clipboard.
2. Click Cancel.
  You can now paste the list into a text editor or a notepad view in a workspace.
3. Edit each situation or policy in the list to delete the reference to this situation. (With the situation open in the Formula editor, right-click the column heading for the embedded situation, and click Delete. With the policy open in the Workflow editor, select the activity references this situation, and click Clear.)

Note:

Situations is only in the menu of Navigator items that have managed systems assigned. In the Navigator Physical view, managed systems are preassigned to every item except those at the operating platform level (such as Linux Systems) and cannot be changed. In the Navigator Logical and custom views, you can assign managed systems when creating a Navigator item or editing its properties.

Note: If you are forwarding events to an event integration facility such as the Tivoli Enterprise Console Server, when an active situation is deleted, the Stop and Delete events that are sent to the event server use the situation short name and not the long name. This is also true for any associated messages that are sent to the message log view.