Overview of situations
- Definition of a predefined situation
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A situation is a logical expression involving one or more system conditions. OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS uses situations to monitor the systems in your network. To improve the speed with which you begin using OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS, the product provides situations that check for system conditions common to many enterprises. You can examine and if necessary, change the conditions or values being monitored to those best suited to your enterprise. Be sure to start the situations that you want to run in your environment.
- Using situations
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You manage situations from the Tivoli® management portal using the Situation editor. Using the Situation editor you can perform the following tasks:
- Create a situation
- Save a situation
- Display a situation
- Edit a situation
- Start, stop, or delete a situation
- Investigate the situation event workspace for a situation
When you open the Situation editor, the left frame initially lists the situations associated with the Navigator item you selected. When you click a situation name or create a new situation, the right frame of the Situation editor opens to provide the following information about the situation and allow you to further define that situation:
- Condition
- View, add to, and edit the condition being tested.
- Distribution
- View the systems to which the situation is assigned and assign the situation to systems.
- Expert advice
- Write comments or instructions to be read in the situation event workspace.
- Action
- Specify a command to be sent to the system.
You can also specify a Storage Toolkit request to be run when a situation becomes true if OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS is installed and a storage table is enabled for Storage Toolkit commands.
- Until
- Reset a true situation when another situation becomes true or a specified time interval elapses.