Customizing KOBSITEC as the initial workspace

The ITM Situation Status & Message log (KOBSITEC) workspace can be a useful alternative to the default initial workspace, if you use Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server situation monitoring.

About this task

You can use the ITM Situation Status & Message log (KOBSITEC) workspace to display IBM Tivoli Monitoring Situations status information in the enhanced 3270 user interface. The status information is similar to the information provided by the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Situation Event Console, that is, situation status for current situations events and situation event history. KOBSITEC also enables navigation to OMEGAMON products high-level workspace via the situation status row action selection. To change the default initial workspace KOBSTART to KOBSITEC, use the following procedure.

Procedure

  • Use the procedure that is detailed in Customizing a user profile to change the setting First workspace to be displayed to KOBSITEC.
    When you log on the KOBSITEC workspace is now displayed as the initial workspace.
  • Optional: Enter =KOBSITEC in the action bar or command line and press Enter to go directly to the KOBSITEC workspace.

Results

Figure 1. ITM Situation Status & Message log workspace.
ITM Situation Status & Message log workspace
The ITM Situation Status & Message log (KOBSITEC) workspace provides the following subpanel attributes:
Status
The Tivoli Monitoring Situation event status; for example, OPEN, ACKNOWLEDGED, REOPENED.
Situation Name
A unique name that identifies the Tivoli Monitoring Situation.
MSN Event Source
The name of the managed system where the situation is being monitored.
HUB Event Time
A time stamp that indicates the time the event occurrence or situation condition was recorded by the Hub Tivoli Enterprise Management Server.
Agent Event Time
A time stamp that indicates the time the event occurrence or situation condition was observed by the originating managed system.
Display Item
A related attribute that helps identify a unique instance of a situation event in the case where there are multiple instances/rows (that is, events) for a specific situation.
Type
The type of situation event, that is, a pure type where the situation has no sampling interval and the related alert notification is unsolicited, or, a sampled type where the situation condition is sampled on a specified interval.