About situations

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A situation is a logical expression involving one or more system conditions. Situations are used to monitor the condition of systems in your network. You can manage situations from Tivoli Enterprise Portal by using the Situation Editor.

The monitoring agents that you use to monitor your system environment are delivered with a set of predefined situations that you can use as-is or you can create new situations to meet your requirements. Predefined situations contain attributes that check for system conditions common to many enterprises.

Using predefined situations can improve the speed with which you can begin using the Tape Optimizer Monitoring Agent. You can examine and, if necessary, change the conditions or values being monitored by a predefined situation to those best suited to your enterprise.

You can display predefined situations and create your own situations using the Situation Editor. The left frame of the Situation editor initially lists the situations associated with the Navigator item that you selected. When you click a situation name or create a new situation, the right frame opens with the following tabs:

Formula: Formula describing condition being tested
Distribution: List of managed systems (operating systems, subsystems, or applications) to which the situation can be distributed. All of the Tape Optimizer Monitoring Agent managed systems are assigned by default.
Expert advice: Comments and instructions to be read in the event workspace
Action: Command to be sent to the system
Until: Options to close the event after a period of time, or when another situation becomes true