Alerts Table Attributes

Use the Alerts Table attributes to view exceptional Warning and Critical level events surfaced by Agent Management Services. These events have to do with the operation of Agent Management Services or conditions affecting its ability to manage agents. They include the following:
  • Agent stopped abnormally.
  • Agent restart failed.
  • Agent exceeded restart tries.
  • Agent not found.
  • Agent exceeded policy defined memory threshold.
  • Agent exceeded policy defined CPU threshold.
  • Agent manual stop failed.
  • Agent removed from system - CAP file removed.

Agent Name The watched agent name.

Agent Status The agent status. The following values are valid: Unknown (0), Not_found (1), Stopped (2), Start_Pending (3), Running (4), Manually_Stopped (5), Stop_Pending (6), Not_Configured (7).

Agent Type The watched agent type. The following values are valid: Unknown (0), ITM_UNIX (1), Console (2), Windows_Service (3), Discover_ITM (4), Discover_Bin (5), Linux_Service (6), ITM_Windows (7).

Alert Details The alert message details.

Alert Message The alert message. The following values are valid: Availability_policy_removed (1), Managed_agent_removed_from_system (2), Unmanaged_agent_removed_from_system (3), Agent_abnormally_stopped (4), Agent_exceeded_restart_count (5), Agent_restart_failed (6), Agent_overutilizing_memory (7), Agent_overutilizing_CPU (8), Agent_manual_stop_failed (9), Agent_Management_Services_watchdog_not_reliable (11).

Operating System The operating system identification. The following values are valid: Unknown (0), Windows (1), Linux (2).

Process ID The process ID.

Process Name The process name.

Server Name The origin node of the collecting agent.

Timestamp The date and time the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server samples the data. This information is displayed in the standard 16-character date/time format (CYYMMDDHHMMSSmmm). The timestamp entries are listed in the following table:

Timestamp entry Description

C

Century (0 for 20th, 1 for 21st)

YY

Year

MM

Month

DD

Day

HH

Hour

MM

Minute

SS

Second

mmm

Millisecond

Use simple text strings as described above. For example, 1101009130500000 expresses October 9, 2010, 1:05:00 pm.