Attributes

Tivoli® Enterprise Portal gathers data from remote agents located within your systems. The portal stores this data for IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage in elements called attributes. You can use these attributes to build situations to monitor the performance of the managed systems you are concerned with.

Attributes correspond to the column names contained on the table views in associated IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage workspaces. Related attributes are grouped into attribute groups. A given table view contains information provided by a single attribute group.

You use attributes to create situations that monitor the state of your storage environment. A situation describes a condition you want to test. When you start a situation, the monitoring server compares the values that you have assigned for the situation's attributes with the values collected by IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage and registers a situation event if the condition is met. You are alerted to situation events by indicator icons that appear in the Navigator.

Each attribute is a characteristic of an object. For example, the All Channels Busy Percent attribute in the Logical Control Unit attribute group displays the percentage of the time that all channel paths to an LCU were busy.

Attribute groups

The IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage attributes are organized into groups of related items. These groups of attributes comprise the attribute tables for the product.

Note: In the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, the names of attribute groups are preceded by S3, which is the product code for IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage.

Attributes and workspaces

You can view the data reported for the attribute in the reports and charts displayed in the IBM Z OMEGAMON AI for Storage workspaces. The workspaces contain the table views you use to obtain information about the various aspects of your environment. The table views and graphs within each workspace report the storage attribute information you are monitoring. You can use the collected data to analyze and monitor performance.

Attributes and situations

Attributes are used in the predefined situations for the product. You can also create custom situations for to monitor the performance of your z/OS® systems. These situations can monitor one aspect of your enterprise or analyze multiple conditions to alert you to problems that can occur when attribute values exceed their thresholds.