Defining thresholds

You can learn to work on threshold mechanism by using the example and screen captures here.

To show how the threshold mechanism works, we will create the following simple example: display a warning when more than one AssemblyLine is currently running.

This threshold will depend on data provided by the AssemblyLine table. First we need to create a situation by right-clicking on the table of the agent, and by selecting Situations in the menu:

Figure 1. Situations menu

Click on the Create Situation button in the upper-left corner and complete the fields in the displayed form:

Figure 2. Situation form

This will be the name associated to the warning. Here we describe a case study, but in real situations you would give it meaningful names.

Then we choose with which table attribute our situation will deal:

Figure 3. Situation: select condition

Indeed, we only have to consider the name of the AL to identify it.

Click in one of the cells, for example the one in line number 1:

The display changes:

Click on the v, and change it to "Count of group members".

Click on the ==, and change it to >.

Set the cell space remaining on the right to 1.

We have configured a condition to the Name column, which will be true if we have more than one AssemblyLine running:

And change the following default settings:

To this:

The situation is set, so Apply and validate this window.

Start IBM® Security Verify Directory Integrator Server and start at least two AssemblyLines at the same time; for example two HTTP Server Connectors that are listening on different ports.

Figure 4. ITM displayed warning

The Warning window is opened while highlighting the warning icon.