Situations

The SA z/OS monitoring agent provides a set of predefined situations that monitor the status and health of automation resources within the SA z/OS subplex. These situations check for specified conditions and can trigger Critical situation event indicator Critical, Warning situation event indicator Warning, or Informational situation event indicator Informational situation event indicators (also called alerts) in the Navigator. When a situation triggers an alert, you can investigate the situation event by opening its workspace. If both a warning and a critical condition occur for the same workspace, the indicator always shows the highest-level situation event (the critical one).

You can use the Situation Editor to examine the conditions or values being monitored and, if necessary, change them to ones better suited to your environment. You can also use the predefined situations as models for creating your own situations, using SA z/OS monitoring agent attributes. Before your new situations can take effect, you must distribute them to the systems you want to monitor. For instructions, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal online help.

Tip:
Rather than editing a predefined situation, copy it with Create Another and then edit the copy. This practice prevents your edited situations from being overwritten during installation and configuration of future versions of the product.