Filtering the situations tree

When you open the Situation editor from anywhere except the toolbar, only the situations associated with the current Navigator item are displayed in the Situation tree. You can filter the tree to show situations that are not associated or to see all the situations that have been defined for the monitored application.

Before you begin

You must open the Situation editor from a Navigator item for the Set Situation filter criteria tool to be available.

About this task

The tree lists the situations that are associated with the Navigator item (or all situations in your monitoring environment if you opened the Situation editor from the toolbar). For example, if you opened the Situation editor from the Enterprise Navigator item, you would see all the situations that are distributed and associated with theCloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server; if you right-clicked a system item, you would see all situations that were distributed to that managed system. If you open the Situation editor from a custom Navigator view, the situations are those associated with the managed systems that were assigned to the Navigator item.

Take these steps to control which situations appear in the tree:

Procedure

  1. Click Situation Filter.
  2. Select any combination of these options:
    Option Description
    Associated with Monitored Application Show all situations that were written for this type of agent, regardless of where they are distributed or if they are distributed. Select this box if you want to see situations that have not been distributed to managed systems.
    Eligible for Association Show all situations that have been distributed to the managed system (or systems) assigned to this Navigator item and that have not been associated with it. If you are planning to associate situations with this Navigator item, select this box to see those situations that have not yet been associated.
    Associated with this object Show all situations associated with this Navigator item. If you are planning to associate situations with this Navigator item, clear this check box and select Selected check box Eligible for Association to see only those situations that have not yet been associated.

Results

After you click OK, the tree shows the situations specified by the filter. If the results are not what you expected or need, return to the Show Situations window and try another setting.