Situations

To obtain information about each predefined situation, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal expert advice given for each situation.

Each predefined situation addresses a specific problem. You can use these situations:

• To immediately monitor your CICS regions
• As models for creating your own situations
• To monitor and manage, through localized automation, widely dispersed resources

Most of the predefined situations have an alert status of either Critical or Warning. You can view which managed objects in Tivoli Enterprise Portal have triggered alerts by selecting the Business tab of Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

Using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you can change conditions, relational operators, and compare values in these predefined situations to ones more appropriate to your environment. You can also modify the predefined situations provided for use with Tivoli Enterprise Portal. If you choose to change a predefined situation, change a copy, and preserve the original situation in the form in which it was shipped.

For more information about creating and using situations, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal online help. For information about the various attributes used in predefined situations, see Attributes.

Situations are expressions of system conditions you want to monitor embedded in IF-TRUE statements. This means that if the specified condition exists, then this situation is true. Most of the predefined situations are set to issue an alert whenever a threshold reaches either critical or warning limit.

You can use these situations to monitor particular conditions for your CICS regions. For example, you might want to monitor for total disk space available less than 25%, an excessive number of unsuccessful logon attempts, or a printer out of paper.