Use the tacmd editSit command to edit a situation.

where:

-s|--situation sitname

Specifies the name of the situation to edit.

-p|--property|--properties name=value ...

Specifies one or more name=value pairs that identify the properties of the new situation and their values. Valid property names are:

• Desc or Description - Description of the situation. Input given as text enclosed between double quotes, such as

  -p Desc="Alerts user to save the work.."

• Interval - Sampling Interval. Input Given in format ddd/hhmmss within double quotes, such as

  -p Interval="000/001500"

• Formula - Situation Formula. Input given within double quotes. Keywords are prefixed with *, such as:

  -p Formula="*IF *VALUE Local_Time.Minutes *GT 31"

• Distribution - Situation Distribution. Input should be a valid managed system name or names, such as:

  -p Distribution="Primary:HDCHASDSTC0219:NT,Primary:HDCHASDSTC0420:NT"

• Advice - Expert Advice for situation. Input given as text enclosed between double quotes, such as:

  -p Advice="Save the work.."

• Action - Action to be performed when the situation becomes true. Program name or command to be executed, Given as text enclosed between quotes, such as:

  -p Action="net send HDCHASDSTC0219 Save ur Work.."

• RunOnStart - Specifies whether the situation has to be executed on start. Input Yes or No, such as:

  -p RunOnStart=Yes

• SitInfo - Holds the Tivoli Enterprise Console® EIF data; a combination of SEV, TFWD, TDST separated between ";" The SitInfo parameters must be enclosed in double quotes. SEV can take values Critical or Warning or Minor or Harmless or Unknown. TFWD=Y or N. TDST can take up to 5 valid Tivoli Enterprise Console destination server IDs separated by ",", such as:

  -p SitInfo="SEV=Critical;TFWD=Y;TDST=100"

  For finding valid server IDs, use the tacmd listeventdest command.

-l|--local filename

Indicates the file name of the local situation definition to edit, so no changes are made to the situation definition on the monitoring server.

-f|--force

Disables the message that asks if you are sure you want to edit the situation.

The command in the example edits the No_Transactions definition to not run at startup, which requires the situation to be started manually.

   tacmd editSit -s No_Transactions -p RunOnStart=NO

The command in the example edits the SaveWork definition to run at startup.

tacmd editsit -s SaveWork -p Desc="Alerts User to save.." 
Formula="*IF *VALUE Local_Time.Minutes *GT 31" Advice="Please save your work..."
Interval="000/001500" Distribution="Primary:HDCHASDSTC0219:NT"
Action="net send HDCHASDSTC0219 Please Save your Work.." RunOnStart=Yes
SitInfo="SEV=Critical;TFWD=Y;TDST=100"

See Return codes

tacmd createSit

tacmd deleteSit

tacmd listSit

tacmd viewSit