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Attributes reference
Attributes are the application properties that are being measured and reported by the IBM Tivoli Monitoring: AIX Premium Agent.
About attributes
Attributes are organized into attribute groups. Attributes in an attribute group relate to a single object such as an application, or to a single kind of data such as status information.
Attributes in a group can be used in queries, query-based views, situations, policy workflows, take action definitions, and launch application definitions. Chart or table views and situations are two examples of how attributes in a group can be used:
- Chart or table views
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 Properties editor to apply filters and set styles to define the content and appearance of a view based on an existing query.
- Situations
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 values you assign to the situation attributes are compared with the values collected by the AIX Premium agent and registers an event if the condition is met. You are alerted to events by indicator icons that are displayed in the Navigator.
Additional information about attributes
For more information about using attributes and attribute groups, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal User's Guide.
For a list of the attribute groups, a list of the attributes in each attribute group, and descriptions of the attributes for this monitoring agent, see Attribute groups for the monitoring agent and Attributes in each attribute group.
- Attribute groups for the monitoring agent
The AIX Premium agent contains the following attribute groups. The table name depends on the maximum table name limits of the target database being used for the Tivoli Data Warehouse. If the maximum name is 30 characters, any warehouse table name longer than 30 characters is shortened to 30 characters.
- Attributes in each attribute group
Attributes in each AIX Premium agent attribute group collect data that the agent uses for monitoring.
- Disk capacity planning for historical data
Disk capacity planning for a monitoring agent is a prediction of the amount of disk space to be consumed by the historical data in each attribute group that is collecting historical data. Required disk storage is an important factor when you are defining data collection rules and your strategy for historical data collection.