Take Action from the Navigator, Situations and Workspaces

Take Action lets you enter a predefined command and run it on any system in your managed network, in response to conditions monitored by the OMEGAMON products in your environment.

Predefined actions might include canceling a Db2 thread, purging CICS tasks, starting or stopping an MQ channel, or other maintenance actions frequently taken to keep systems running.

Some monitored applications provide predefined Take Action commands. You can customize those commands in Tivoli Enterprise Portal and create command definitions of your own, then invoke them on the system you choose. Customized Take Action commands cannot be created in IZSME, but any customized Take Action commands you have created in Tivoli Enterprise Portal will be accessible in IZSME.

You can access Take Action from the Navigator, the Situation Event Console, or a workspace view, by right-clicking an item in the Navigator, a situation in the Situation Event Console, or a task in a workspace, then selecting Take Action.

Choose one of the available predefined actions from the Action to execute field. This is the action that will be sent to the destination system(s).

The Command field shows the actual command this action will send to the system.

Some actions will have an Arguments and values section, with one or more argument fields. These allow you to enter a value, such as a process ID, to be used with the command sent to the destination system(s). For some commands, there will be several argument fields that allow you to specify values for the arguments to be entered along with the command.

In the Destination systems field, you can choose one or more of your managed systems, and have the command sent there.

After you submit the action, the Action status panel shows the progress and outcome of the action:
  • Destination: The system(s) to which the command was sent.
  • Status: The outcome of the command (complete, in progress, failure, etc.)
  • Return code: The return code. A code of 0 indicates success.
  • Result: A message describing the outcome, for non-zero (failure) return codes.

If there are no actions available, either predefined or custom created at your site, the Take Action panel will be empty.