Monitoring Agent for IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm attributes

Every monitoring agent has a set of attributes that represent the properties of the managed system. Attributes are organized into attribute groups, the values of which can be selectively displayed in a query-based view (table, chart or relational topology) as part of a workspace or used to specify a condition for testing in a situation. When the view is opened or refreshed or the situation is started, data samples are taken of the attributes.

The Monitoring Agent for IBM Tivoli Advanced Reporting and Management for DFSMShsm provides predefined workspaces and situations that you can begin to use immediately and customize for your environment. When the sampled values for the attributes described in a situation formula meet the condition (such as attribute A is greater than 80%), an event is opened. At the same time, a severity icon overlays the Navigator item that the situation is associated with. Formulas can also be used to specify thresholds in a table view for highlighting cells whose values exceed the threshold.

In addition, in expert advice for a situation or in certain definitions such as those for Launch Application, Take Action, and linking, you can reference attribute names that are replaced by their values when processed.

Note that when no data can be collected for an attribute group an empty result will be returned (no rows of data), when a specific attribute cannot be collected the value 0 or "" will be returned unless otherwise specified in a particular attribute (for example "N/A") and any mumeric attribute value that is greater than the largest (positive or negative) number that can be represented by that type will return the corresponding maximum or minimum value (for example, for a 32 bit number the maximum value is 2,147,483,647). These values will be displayed in the TEP as text values defined by the attribute group such as "Value Exceeds Maximum" or "Value Exceeds Minimum".

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Organization of the predefined workspaces