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Situations reference
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 the Tivoli Enterprise Portal using the Situation Editor or from the command-line interface using the tacmd commands for situations. You can manage private situations in the private configuration XML file.
About situations
The monitoring agents that you use to monitor your system environment include a set of predefined situations that you can use as-is. You can also 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 IBM Tivoli Agentless Monitoring for Linux Operating Systems. You can change the conditions or values being monitored by a predefined situation to the conditions or values best suited to the enterprise.
You can display predefined situations and create your own situations using the Situation editor. The Situation editor initially lists the situations associated with the Navigator item that you selected. When you click a situation name or create a situation, a panel opens with the following tabs:
- Formula
- Formula describing the condition being tested.
- Distribution
- List of managed systems (operating systems, subsystems, or applications) to which the situation can be distributed. All the Agentless Monitor for Linux 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.
- EIF
- Customize forwarding of the event to an Event Integration Facility receiver. (Available when the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server is configured to forward events.)
- Until
- Options to close the event after a period of time, or when another situation becomes true.
Additional information about situations
The Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide contains more information about predefined and custom situations and how to use them to respond to alerts.
For a list of the predefined situations and information about each individual situation for this monitoring agent, see Predefined situations.
- Predefined situations
The monitoring agent contains predefined situations, which are organized by Navigator item.
- Situation descriptions
Each situation description provides information about the situation that you can use to monitor the condition of systems in your network.