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.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Network Manager navigator item

The workspace descriptions are organized by the navigator item to which the workspaces are relevant.

IBM Tivoli Monitoring for Tivoli Network Manager workspace
This workspace displays the overall state of the Tivoli Network Manager application.

This workspace contains the following views:

Availability
Displays the state of the Tivoli Network Manager processes.
Discovery
Displays the state of the Tivoli Network Manager Discovery.
Network
Displays the Tivoli Network Manager Network metrics.

Availability navigator item

The workspace descriptions are organized by the navigator item to which the workspaces are relevant.

Availability workspace
The Availability workspace displays the overall health of the application.

This workspace contains the following views:

Availability
Displays the state of each component in the application. Each process is displayed using a descriptive name, the name of the running process, and the state of the process (UP, DOWN, or PROCESS_DATA_NOT_AVAILABLE). When the state of the component is DOWN (for a process, or service) it is highlighted with a red background.
Processor
Displays the amount of CPU used by each process that is a component of the application. This displays the 2 main components of CPU usage, privileged time which is time spent in the kernel on behalf of the process and user mode time, which is the time spent running the process code.
Threads
Displays the number of threads used by each process that is a component of the application.
Memory
Displays the amount of memory being consumed by each process that is a component of the application. This total (virtual) size of the process and the size of the process in memory (working set) are displayed.

Discovery navigator item

The workspace descriptions are organized by the navigator item to which the workspaces are relevant.

Discovery workspace
The Discovery workspace displays the health of the network discovery done by Tivoli Network Manager and gathers the metrics used to generate reports.

This workspace contains the following views:

Current_Discovery
This view displays a snapshot of the current discovery. The values are all set to zero, no discovery is available at the moment.
Last Discovery Phase Duration
Displays a snapshot of the duration of each phase of the last completed discovery.
Last Discovery Memory Usage in KBytes
Displays a snapshot of the memory usage to process the last completed discovery.
Objects Discovered
Displays a snapshot of the objects discovered during the last completed discovery.
Agent Status
Displays a snapshot of the status of each agent configured in the system.

Monitoring navigator item

The workspace descriptions are organized by the navigator item to which the workspaces are relevant.

Monitoring workspace
This workspace displays information related to Tivoli Network Manager monitoring. The workspace gathers network monitoring metrics used to monitor the Tivoli Network Manager pollers and to generate reports.

This workspace contains the following views:

Displays the total number of MIB objects retrieved per second.
Number of Devices Being Polled by Poll Definition Type
Displays the total number of devices being polled by poll definition type.
Packets Sent by Poller
Displays the total number of packets sent by the poller.
Packets Processed by Poller
Displays the total number of packets processed by the poller.
SNMP Errors and Timeout Responses
Displays the total number of SNMP errors and timeouts.

Network navigator item

The workspace descriptions are organized by the navigator item to which the workspaces are relevant.

Network workspace
This workspace displays information related to a network monitored by Tivoli Network Manager. The workspace gathers network discovery metrics used to monitor the network and to generate reports.

This workspace contains the following views:

Network elements
Displays the total number of network elements listed by type in a monitored network.
Devices with and without SNMP access
Displays the total number of devices with and without SNMP access.
Interfaces Up and Down
Displays a counter of the interface Operational status that can be UP or DOWN.