Predefined tools

Use these tools to begin monitoring and visualizing data immediately. Some definitions are ready to use; others are turned off until you activate them:

Workspaces

The Navigator is the panel that appears at top-left when you enter IZSME. The workspaces that open when you click a Navigator item are predefined. They provide real-time visual data from managed systems, and they provide historical values when historical data collection has been configured. The predefined workspaces also provide a starting point for designing your own workspaces.

Queries

The predefined workspaces are populated with data from predefined queries. Creating your own queries from these predefined queries enables you to add or remove attributes, apply a sort order, and pre-filter the data.

Situations

The tests for conditions that you want to be alerted for are available in the predefined situations.

Managed system groups

The Tivoli® Enterprise Monitoring Server and every IBM® Tivoli Monitoring product has at least one predefined managed system group, indicated by an asterisk at the beginning of the list name, such as *NT_SYSTEM for the Windows OS agent. When you assign one of these managed system groups to a situation, policy, historical collection configuration, or custom Navigator, all managed systems with that agent installed are selected.