Take Action commands

In this section, you can learn how to use the Take Action feature to issue commands to any system in your network where one or more monitoring agents are installed.

You can create a Take Action command and run it immediately from a workspace, or you can run a saved Take Action command.

The Tivoli® Enterprise Portal is always hosted on a distributed computer system. When you submit a Take Action command from the Tivoli Enterprise Portal to a z/OS® system, a return code of zero is displayed in the portal interface. This code indicates successful submission of the command but gives no indication of the result of the command. You can find the command output in the z/OS SYSLOG.

Note: The Storage Toolkit provides functionality similar to the Take Action commands. You create action requests in the Storage Toolkit that issue commands in target z/OS systems.

Here is an example of using a saved Take Action command:

Right-click an item in the Navigator.
From the pop-up menu, select Take Action to display the Take Action dialog box.
In the Take Action dialog box's Action area, select a saved Take Action command. To edit the command's argument values, select the Arguments button and click OK.
In the Take Action dialog box Destination Systems area, select the target system or systems to which you want to send the Take Action command and click OK. This causes the command to be sent to the system or systems where it is run.