WebSphere Agent workspace
This workspace displays product events that affect the ability of the WebSphere® Application Server agent to collect data.
This workspace displays events occurring within the WebSphere Application Server agent
and WebSphere Application Servers that
are installed on the host computer. It also displays the status of
the monitoring agent.
The predefined workspace contains the following items:
- Agent Events report, which displays information about agent-level
events that affect the ability of the monitoring agent to
collect data for the WebSphere Application Server.
You can use this view to see exception and error messages, their IDs,
and their severity.
The Agent Events report also shows the result of issuing a Take Action commands . Place your cursor over a truncated message to display the text of the complete message
This report displays data reported by the WebSphere Agent Events attributes.
- Application Servers Summary report displays information about
status of the WebSphere server.
This report displays data reported by the Application server status attributes.
Accessing the WebSphere Agent workspace
To
access this workspace, complete the following steps:
- Within the Navigator, expand Windows Systems, Linux® Systems, z/OS® Systems, or UNIX Systems, as appropriate for the node you are monitoring.
- Within the node list, expand the entry that corresponds to the node that you want to select.
- Within that node list of available monitoring agents, if the WebSphere Agent entry has a name next to it (for example, WebSphere Agent - Primary), click the entry. Otherwise, expand the entry and click one of the agent names.
Accessing the managing server visualization engine from the WebSphere Agent workspace
In the Tivoli® Enterprise
Portal, access the WebSphere agent
workspace. You can use the Diagnostic Server Activity Display or
the Diagnostic In-flight Request Search link
to access the managing server visualization engine.
- In the Applications Server Summary window, right-click the choose link icon then click Diagnostic Server Activity Display or Diagnostic In-flight Request Search.
- If this is your first time to access the managing server visualization agent, during the session you see a Welcome to the Application Monitor page.
- Depending on the user setup configuration in your environment, you might have to type your managing server visualization engine User Name and Password. If you do, you need to log in only once per session using your User Name and Password.
- Click OK to display the relevant page in
the managing server Visualization engine.
- If you click Diagnostic In-flight Request Search you see the In-Flight Request Search page in managing server visualization engine.
- If you click Diagnostic Server Activity Display you see the Server Activity Display page in the managing server visualization engine.
- The information in both of these pages relates directly to the context from where you launched the link in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.
- To return to the previous workspace in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal interface at any
time choose from the following options:
- From the Tivoli Enterprise Portal desktop client, including WebStart, click the back arrow on the Portal toolbar.
- From the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client, click the browser back arrow.