Distributing situations

Distributing situations assigns them to the system or systems you want them to monitor. Distribute only the situations that you are going to set to autostart or plan to manually enable.

If you distribute all the situations, they will be propagated to the agents when the Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Server starts. This may simplify any subsequent activation procedures, but it extends startup time. Review the situations to determine which ones you plan to use and add distribution lists for only those situations. Once the situations are distributed, their alerts will appear on the Navigator items they are associated with.

You distribute situations using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Situation editor. To distribute a situation:

Open the Situation editor.
You can access the Situation editor from the toolbar or by right-clicking an item in the Navigator and selecting Situations... from the popup menu.
If necessary, use Set Situation filter criteria to view the situations available for distribution.
Check Eligible for Association to see a list of all the situations which are written for this type of managed system.

Any undistributed situations show their icon partially dimmed .
Select (click) the situation you want to distribute.
The Situation editor displays the Formula tab for the situation.
Select the Distribution tab.
The available managed systems and managed systems lists are displayed.
Select the systems and lists to which you want to distribute the situation, and then click the left arrow to assign the situations to the systems or system lists.
Click Apply to save and implement the change and continue editing; click OK to apply and save the change and close the Situation editor.