Situation editor

The left frame of the Situation editor is a tree of the situations associated with the current Navigator item or the situations of all installed monitoring products if you opened the editor from the toolbar; the right frame shows this user assistance until you create or select a situation.

In the situation tree, click:

or Situation name to open the definition for viewing and editing. ( indicates the situation is not distributed.)
Set Situation filter criteria to identify a broader range of situations to show in the tree.
Create new Situation to create a new standard situation or correlated situation.
Create another Situation to copy the selected situation, with a new name and description.
Delete Situation to permanently remove the selected situation.

After selecting or creating a situation, click:

Formula to see, add attributes to, and edit the formula.
Distribution to see and assign the managed systems where the situation is running.
Expert Advice to create links to URLs or to write instructions to be read in the event results workspace.
Action to send a command or a universal message as an automatic, reflexive response when the situation becomes true.
EIF to forward situation events to an Event Integration Facility receiver. (Available when theCloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server has been configured to forward events.)
Until to specify that the event be closed after a certain period of time or when another situation is true.

In the situation tree menu, click:

Create New situation to create a new standard situation or correlated situation.
Create Another situation to copy the selected situation, with a new name and description.
Start or Stop the situation. Be careful when stopping a situation, because it stops on all managed systems where it is running.
Delete the situation. The situation stops running on all managed systems where it was distributed, and then is deleted.
Associate the situation with the current Navigator item to enable an alert indicator of the selected state to be applied to the Navigator item when the situation is true; or Dissociate the situation from the current Navigator item.
Enable or Disable the situation overrides that have been created for this situation, or Remove All Overrides.
Show the situation groups that this situation is a member of.

The Situation editor buttons enable you to Apply your changes by saving and starting the situation, and exit with (OK) or without (Cancel) saving your changes. If you plan to edit multiple situations while in the Situation editor, click Apply to save your changes before selecting the next situation to edit or creating a new one.