Attributes are the application properties being measured and reported by the monitoring agent, such as the amount of memory usage or the message ID.
Attributes are displayed in chart and table views. The chart and table views use queries to specify which attribute values to request from a monitoring agent. You use the Query editor to create a new query, modify an existing query, or apply filters and set styles to define the content and appearance of a view based on an existing query.
You use attributes to create situations that monitor the state of your operating system, database, or application. A situation describes a condition you want to test. When you start a situation, the Tivoli Enterprise Portal compares the values you have assigned to the situation attributes with the values collected by Monitoring Agent for Windows OS and registers an event if the condition is met. You are alerted to events by indicator icons that are displayed in the Navigator.
Some of the attributes in this chapter are listed twice, with the second attribute having a "(Unicode)" designation after the attribute name. These Unicode attributes were created to provide access to globalized data.
For more information about using attributes and attribute groups, see the IBM Tivoli Monitoring User's Guide.
An attribute is a characteristic of a managed object (node). For example, Disk Name is an attribute for a disk, which is a managed object.
Use attributes to build situations that monitor the performance of your network managed systems. When the values of the selected attributes in a situation exceed their threshold settings, the agent posts an alert to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal console notifying you of a problem.