Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server and global attributes

Every monitoring agent connects to aCloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server, which acts as a collection and control point for alerts received from the agents, and gathers performance and availability data from them. The main, or hub, monitoring server correlates the monitoring data collected by agents and remote servers and passes it to the Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal Server for presentation in the Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal.

Monitoring agents are made up of attributes, which represent the properties of systems or networks, such as the amount of CPU usage or the message ID. Attributes are organized into attribute groups. The attributes in a group can be displayed in a query-based view (table, chart or relational topology) or used to specify a condition for testing in a situation. When you open the view or start the situation, data samples are taken of the selected attributes.

The Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server has attribute groups that you can use for reporting the status of enterprise activities, monitoring agents, and situations:

• Agent Operations Log for use in query-based views and situations to monitor message-related information about the monitoring agent. See the Agent Operations Log attributes.
• Three attribute groups for the Depot
• Enterprise Information Base (EIB) Change log for use in query-based views of the changes made by users to deploy situations and policies. See the EIB Change Log attributes.
• Managed System for use in query-based views and situations regarding the status of the monitoring server and agents. See the Managed Systems attributes.
• Situation Definition for use in query-based views to report the complete definition of situations. See the Situation Definition attributes.
• Active Situation Status and Situation Status for use in query-based views to report the situation and policy status. See the Situation Status Current attributes and Situation Status Log attributes.

The Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server also has several global attribute groups for using alone or combining with a product attribute group to create situations:

• Local Time and Universal Time for use in situations, including embedded situations on any managed system. See the Local Time attributes and Universal Time attributes.
• Universal Message for monitoring the messages that have been generated through a situation or policy action command. See the Universal Messages attributes.
• The Situation Status Event attributes for information on situation events. Views that display this information include My Acknowledged Events, Selected Event, and Similar Events and are used in some of the Enterprise workspaces.
• ITM Audit attributes give information on critical state-changing events in the monitoring environment. See theITM Audit attributes.

You can also work with attributes of other applications by creating SQL queries to retrieve them from ODBC-compliant databases.