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Agent Service Interface - Situations

Select the Situations option of the Agent Service Interface to see the status and statistics of each situation, including private situations and situations distributed to any subnodes, for the monitoring agent.

The Situations report gives some vital statistics about each situation on the agent. The setting of the agent environment variable IRA_EVENT_EXPORT_SIT_STATS determines the level of detail given.

Situation name

Above each situation summary page is the name of the situation. If this is a private situation, the name will be appended with _pr.

TYPE

Sampled or Pure. A situation is sampled if it samples data at regular intervals. Pure events are unsolicited notifications. The Windows Event Log and Windows File Change attribute are examples of attribute groups that report pure events.

INTERVAL

The interval between data samples, in seconds. If situations for this attribute group trigger pure events, there is no sampling interval and the value shows as 0.

ROWSIZE

This is the row size.

FIRSTSTARTTIME

This is the day of the week, calendar day, and time when the situation is initially started after the agent starts.

LASTSTARTTIME

This is the day of the week, calendar day, and time when the situation was most recently started.

LASTSTOPTIME

This is the day of the week, calendar day, and time when the situation was most recently stopped.

FIRSTEVENTTIME

This is the day of the week, calendar day, and time of the first occurrence that the situation became true and opened an event since the situation was started.

LASTTRUETIME

This is the day of the week, calendar day, and time when the situation most recently became true and opened an event.

LASTFALSETIME

This is the day of the week, calendar day, and time when the situation state evaluated to false after an earlier sampling evaluated to true.

TIMESRECYCLED

This is the number of times the situation was stopped and started since the agent has been online.

TIMESAUTONOMOUS

This is the number times since startup that the situation entered autonomous state because the enterprise monitoring agent was disconnected from its monitoring server, followed by the DAY statistics:

DAY

  • DATE that the most recent statistical data was collected. If this is an enterprise situation, this is since the agent was most recently connected.
  • TRUESAMPLES is the number of times the situation evaluated to true while the agent was disconnected from the monitoring server.
  • FALSESAMPLES is the number of times the situation evaluated to false after a prior true while the agent was disconnected from the monitoring server.
  • TRUERATIO is the percentage of the number of times the situation evaluates to true compared with the false state.
  • FALSERATIO is the percentage of the number of times the situation evaluates to false compared with the true state.
  • HOURROWS is the number of rows of data that have been reported.
  • HOURTRUE is the number of hours that the situation remained true while the agent was disconnected from the monitoring server.
  • HOURFALSE is the number of hours that the situation remained false while the agent was disconnected from the monitoring server.

All situations are shown for an agent, including the subnodes. In this sample TestLab agent with subnodes called ComputerA and ComputerB, ten situations would be listed:


Parent topic:

Agent Service Interface

Related reference:

Private situation XML specification

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