Workspace descriptions

Each workspace description provides information about the workspace such as the purpose and a list of views in the workspace.

Workspaces are listed under Navigator items. When the agent has sub-nodes, the Navigator items are listed under the subnode.

Workload Agent Navigator item

The Workload Agent Navigator item features one workspace.
Deployment Summary workspace
The Deployment Summary workspace displays configuration information about the deployment being monitored. This workspace has no links.
Predefined views:
Agent Event: The Agent Event view contains a table that provides you with information about events that occur in the monitored deployments. When appropriate, suggestions are provided to help you handle the events.
Deployment Summary: The Deployment Summary view contains a table that provides you with configuration information, including the unique ID of the associated application, its environment profile and the ID of the associated virtual system for the deployment.
Situation Event Console: The Situation Event Console view lists all situations that have been triggered and require your attention. To help you decide on an appropriate action, information such as the severity, impact and time since the situation was triggered is provided.

Deployment Node

The Deployment node features the following workspaces.

Role Type Perspective Deployment Overview workspace
The Role Type Perspective Deployment Overview workspace displays information about the deployment with emphasis how the Roles in the deployment are related to the Role Types. The workspace features 2 views providing information that can help you to troubleshoot and re-configure the deployment.
Predefined views:
Role Type Perspective Deployment Topology: The Role Type Perspective Deployment Topology view displays a hierarchical representation of the deployment. The associated application, Role Types and Roles of the deployment are shown in a parent to child tree structure. If any of the components are in an error state, or are unavailable, this is denoted by a red fault icon. This view also links you to the Role Type Specific Virtual Machine Overview workspace.
Virtual Machine Role Status: The Virtual Machine Role Status view features a table displaying information about virtual machines and the roles that they are assigned. Specific information about the Roles such as Role name, status and availability can be accessed through this table. This information can help you to make decisions regarding the operational viability of the deployment.
Predefined links
Role Type Specific Virtual Machine Overview workspace
Tip: You can right-click a Role Type icon in the Role Type Perspective Deployment Topology view to link to this workspace.
Link to the operating system monitoring agent: If an operating system monitoring agent is detected on a virtual machine, a link to this agent can be accessed by right-clicking a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Role Status view. The following operating system monitoring agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring: Linux® OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Windows OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: AIX® Premium Agent
Link to the Monitoring Agent for IBM Cloud Pak System System: To access this link right-click a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Role Status view.
Link to Domain agents: If domain agents are detected on a virtual machine links to these agents can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Role Status view. The following domain agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for DB2®
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere® Message Broker
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere MQ
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere Application Server
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for mySAP
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Extended Agent for Oracle Database
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for HTTP Servers workspace
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for SOA workspace
Role Type Specific Virtual Machine Overview workspace
The Role Type Specific Virtual Machine Overview workspace displays information about all the virtual machines that are associated with the Role Type used to link to this workspace. The workspace features three views and is only available if linked to from the Role Type Perspective Deployment Overview workspace. The information available in this workspace can be used to make virtual machine specific configuration changes and to troubleshoot faulty virtual machines.
Predefined views:
Virtual Machine Availability per Role Type: The Virtual Machine Availability per Role Type view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines that are associated with the Role Type used to link to this workspace. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in each availability state. The different availability states are as below:
  • Critical
  • Warning
  • Unknown
  • Normal
Virtual Machine Status per Role Type: The Virtual Machine Status per Role Type view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines in the deployment that are associated with the Role Type used to link to this workspace. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in each running state. The different running states are as below:
  • Error
  • Failed
  • Stopped
  • Terminated
  • Terminating
  • Launching
  • Running
Virtual Machine Summary per Role Type: The Virtual Machine Summary per Role Type view displays configuration information about all the virtual machines that are associated with the Role Type used to link to this workspace. This includes information such as the public IP address of the virtual machine, its host name and the host name of the associated hypervisor.
Predefined links
Role Type Specific Virtual Machine Overview workspace
Tip: You can right-click a Role icon in the Role Type Perspective Deployment Topology view to link to this workspace.
Link to domain agent: If domain agents are detected on a virtual machine, links to these agents can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Summary per Role Type view. The following domain agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for HTTP Servers workspace
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for SOA workspace
Link to the operating system monitoring agent: If an operating system monitoring agent is detected on a virtual machine, a link to this agent can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Topology view. The following operating system monitoring agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Linux OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Windows OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: AIX Premium Agent
Virtual Machine Perspective Deployment Overview workspace
The Virtual Machine Perspective Deployment Overview workspace displays information about the deployment with emphasis how the Virtual Machines in the deployment are related to the Roles in the deployment. The workspace features 3 views providing information that can help you to troubleshoot and re-configure the deployment.
Predefined views:
Virtual Machine Perspective Deployment Topology: The Virtual Machine Perspective Deployment Topology view displays a hierarchical representation of the deployment. The associated application, virtual machines and Roles of the deployment are shown in a parent to child tree structure. If any of the components are in an error state, or are unavailable, this is denoted by a red fault icon. This view also links you to the Virtual Machine Specific Role Overview workspace.
Virtual Machine Availability per Role Type in the Last hour: The Virtual Machine Availability per Role Type in the Last hour view displays a bar chart showing the number of virtual machines that have been in each availability state per Role Type, over the last hour. The different availability states are as below:
  • Critical
  • Warning
  • Unknown
  • Normal
Attention: You must enable historical data collection for the Virtual Machine Availability attribute group for information to be displayed in this view.
Virtual Machine Status per Role Type in the Last Hour: The Virtual Machine Status per Role Type in the Last hour view displays a bar chart showing the number of virtual machines that have been in each running state per Role Type, over the last hour. The different running states are as below:
  • Error
  • Failed
  • Stopped
  • Terminated
  • Terminating
  • Launching
  • Running
Attention: You must enable historical data collection for the Virtual Machine Status attribute group for information to be displayed in this view.
Predefined links
Virtual Machine Specific Role Overview workspace
Tip: You can right-click a virtual machine icon in the Virtual Machine Perspective Deployment Topology view to link to this workspace.
Link to domain agent: If domain agents are detected on a virtual machine, links to these agents can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Perspective Deployment Topology view. The following domain agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for HTTP Servers workspace
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for SOA workspace
Link to the operating system monitoring agent: If an operating system monitoring agent is detected on a virtual machine, a link to this agent can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Topology view. The following operating system monitoring agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Linux OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Windows OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: AIX Premium Agent
Virtual Machine Specific Role Overview workspace
The Virtual Machine Specific Role Overview workspace displays information about all the Roles that are assigned to the virtual machine used to link to this workspace. The workspace features two views and is only available if linked to from the Virtual Machine Perspective Deployment Overview workspace. The information available in this workspace can be used to make virtual machine specific configuration changes and to troubleshoot faulty virtual machines.
Predefined views:
Virtual Machine Specific Role Availability Summary: The Virtual Machine Specific Role Availability Summary view displays a bar chart showing the number of Roles assigned to the virtual machine used to link to this workspace in each availability state. The different availability states are as below:
  • Critical
  • Warning
  • Unknown
  • Normal
Virtual Machine Specific Role Overview: The Virtual Machine Specific Role Overview displays information about all the Roles assigned to the virtual machine used to link to this workspace. This includes information such as the public IP address of the virtual machine, its host name and the host name of the associated hypervisor.
Virtual Machine Overview workspace
The Virtual Machine Overview workspace displays information about all the virtual machines in a deployment. The workspace features three views providing information that can help you to troubleshoot the virtual machines. This workspace has no links.
Predefined views:
Virtual Machine Availability per Role Type: The Virtual Machine Availability per Role Type view displays a bar chart showing the number of virtual machines associated with each Role type, in each Availability state. The different availability states are as below:
  • Critical
  • Warning
  • Unknown
  • Normal
Virtual Machine Status per Role Type: The Virtual Machine Status per Role Type view displays a bar chart showing the number of virtual machines associated with each Role type, in each running state. The different running states are as below:
  • Error
  • Failed
  • Stopped
  • Terminated
  • Terminating
  • Launching
  • Running
Virtual Machine Summary: The Virtual Machine Summary view displays configuration information about all the virtual machines in the deployment. This includes information such as the public IP address of the virtual machine, its host name, and the ID of the associated deployment.
Predefined links
Virtual Machine Specific Role Overview workspace
Tip: You can right-click a virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Summary view to link to this workspace.
Link to domain agent: If domain agents are detected on a virtual machine, links to these agents can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Summary view. The following domain agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for HTTP Servers workspace
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for SOA workspace
Deployment Performance workspace (Superseded)
The Deployment Performance workspace displays performance information about the deployment. The workspace features 3 views providing information that can help you to troubleshoot and re-configure the deployment.
Predefined views:
Deployment Topology: The Deployment Topology view displays a hierarchical representation of the deployment. The deployment's associated application, roles and virtual machines are shown in a parent to child tree structure. If any of the components are in an error state or are unavailable this is denoted by a red fault icon.
Virtual Machine Availability per Role: The Virtual Machine Availability per Role view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines in the deployment grouped by assigned role. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in a particular availability state. The different availability states are:
  • Critical
  • Warning
  • Unknown
  • Normal
Virtual Machine Status per Role: The Virtual Machine Status per Role view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines in the deployment grouped by assigned role. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in a particular running state. The different running states are:
  • Error
  • Failed
  • Stopped
  • Terminated
  • Terminating
  • Launching
  • Running
Predefined links
Role Specific Virtual Machine Performance workspace
Tip: You can right-click a role icon in the Topology view or a bar representing a role in either the Virtual Machine Status per Role or the Virtual Machine Availability per Role views to link to this workspace.
Link to domain agent: If domain agents are detected on a virtual machine, links to the following agents can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Topology view:
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for DB2
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere Message Broker
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere MQ
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for WebSphere Application Server
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for mySAP
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Extended Agent for Oracle Database
Link to the operating system monitoring agent: If an operating system agent is detected on a virtual machine a link to this agent can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Topology view. The following operating system monitoring agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Linux OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Windows OS Agent
  • IBM Tivoli Monitoring: AIX Premium Agent
Role Specific Virtual Machine Performance workspace (Superseded)
The Role Specific Virtual Machine Performance workspace displays performance information about all the virtual machines assigned to a particular role in a deployment. The workspace features 3 workspaces and is only available if linked to from the Deployment performance workspace. The information available in this workspace can be used to make virtual machine specific configuration changes and to troubleshoot faulty virtual machines.
Predefined views:
Virtual Machine Availability: The Virtual Machine Availability view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines that are assigned to a particular role. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in a particular availability state. The different availability states are:
  • Critical
  • Warning
  • Unknown
  • Normal
Virtual Machine Status: The Virtual Machine Status view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines in the deployment that are assigned a particular role. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in a particular running state. The different running states are:
  • Error
  • Failed
  • Stopped
  • Terminated
  • Terminating
  • Launching
  • Running
Virtual Machine Summary view: The Virtual Machine summary view displays configuration information about all the virtual machines assigned to a particular role. This includes information such as the virtual machine's public IP address, host name and associated deployment's ID.
Link to domain agent: If domain agents are detected on a virtual machine, links to these agents can be accessed by right-clicking the virtual machine in the Virtual Machine Summary per Role view. The following domain agents are supported by this function:
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for HTTP Servers workspace
  • IBM Tivoli Composite Application Manager Agent for SOA workspace
Virtual Machine Performance workspace (Superseded)
The Virtual Machine Performance workspace displays performance information about all the virtual machines in a deployment (not filtered by role). The workspace features three views providing information that can help you to troubleshoot the virtual machines. This workspace has no links.
Predefined views:
Virtual Machine Availability per Role: The Virtual Machine Availability per Role view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines in the deployment grouped by assigned role. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in a particular availability state. The different availability states are as below:
  • Critical
  • Warning
  • Unknown
  • Normal
Virtual Machine Status per Role: The Virtual Machine Status per Role view displays a bar chart showing all the virtual machines in the deployment grouped by assigned role. Each bar shows the number of virtual machines in a particular running state. The different running states are as below:
  • Error
  • Failed
  • Stopped
  • Terminated
  • Terminating
  • Launching
  • Running
Virtual Machine Summary: The Virtual Machine Summary view displays configuration information about all the virtual machines in the deployment. This includes information such as the public IP address of the virtual machine, its host name, and the ID of the associated deployment.