Situations

Default situations provided by Response Time creates events that can be viewed in Tivoli Enterprise Portal.

Situations are used for comparing monitored data to established thresholds, and are activated after they are distributed to the agents that are monitoring your applications. When monitored data exceeds a situation threshold, the resulting situation alerts provide event notification.

The Application Management Console queries the current status of all Response Time agents to obtain application status. Current status is based on the default situations provided with the product, and any additional situations that you create and customize for your monitoring environment. If you remove the default situations, you can no longer obtain application status. To create additional situations, make a copy of a default situation and then customize your copy as needed.

You can use default situations as templates for creating customized monitoring situations. You also can create new situations using this monitoring agent's attributes.