About situations
A situation is a logical expression involving one or more system conditions. Situations are used to monitor the condition of systems in your network. You can manage situations from the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal by using the Situation editor.
The IBM® Tivoli Monitoring agents that you use to monitor your system environment are shipped with a set of predefined situations that you can use as-is or you can create new situations to meet your requirements. Predefined situations contain attributes that check for system conditions common to many enterprises.
Using predefined situations can improve the speed with which you
can begin using the DB2® agent.
You can examine and, if necessary, change the conditions or values
being monitored by a predefined situation to those best suited to
your enterprise.
Important: The predefined
situations provided with this monitoring agent are
not read-only. Do not edit these situations, and save them. Software
updates write over any of the changes that you make to these situations.
Instead, clone the situations that you want to change to suit your
enterprise.
You can display predefined situations and create your own situations
using the Situation editor. The left frame of the Situation editor
initially lists the situations associated with the Navigator item
that you selected. When you click a situation name or create a new
situation, the right frame opens with the following tabs:
- Formula
- Condition being tested
- Distribution
- List of managed systems (operating systems, subsystems, or applications) to which the situation can be distributed.
- Expert Advice
- Comments and instructions to be read in the event workspace
- Action
- Command to be sent to the system
- Until
- Duration of the situation