Situations

OMEGAMON AI for CICS TG provides numerous predefined situations to issue alerts that help you monitor activity and identify problems in your CICS® TG regions. These situations are described here. For additional information about each predefined situation, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal expert advice.

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

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

All 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 Navigator's Physical tab within the Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

Using the Tivoli Enterprise Portal, you can change conditions, relational operators, and comparison 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 the critical or the warning limit. You can use these situations to monitor particular conditions for your CICS TG regions.