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Customize situations, workspaces, and queries
Perform some customizations of your situations to ensure that this first set of agents do not generate event storms. Many users choose to disable the default situations and then create their own situations. Careful thought must be put into the naming conventions of your situations. Many users include the following elements in their situation names.
- OS type
- Agent name or type, or both
- Business unit
- Physical location
- Severity
When choosing a name, keep in mind that the situations are sorted alphabetically in the Situation Editor. A typical situation might look like:
- East_UNIX_High_CPU_Crit
For more information on disabling the default situations and performing bulk work on situations see the Command Reference.
Choose similar naming conventions for any custom queries, managed system groups, and workspaces. Choose the same criteria such as physical location, business unit, agent type, and so on that you used for situations.
Another important consideration when creating situations is the Display Item, which by default, is not enabled. To generate a unique Tivoli Enterprise Console Event for each item that triggered a situation or want to run a Take Action command against each item that triggered the situation, then you want to select the Display Item and choose the appropriate attribute.
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Install the infrastructure components