Situations

You can use predefined situations to monitor critical activity, such as the following ones:

  • MQSeries events
  • Application response time
  • Channel and queue performance
  • Buffer pool usage

You can use some of these situations to initiate an automation activity, such as starting a channel.

You can use these predefined situations as models when creating your own situations to meet site-specific needs. If you choose to make changes to a predefined situation, we recommend you change a copy and preserve the original situation in the form in which it was shipped.

Some of these predefined situations are started automatically at installation to monitor your system and alert you to critical system problems (this will be noted in the situation's description). Other predefined situations require activation.

The predefined situations associated with IBM® MQ Monitoring agent have names which begin with "MQSeries". The following predefined managed system list names are associated with this agent.

  • *MVS_MQM (All monitoring agents)
  • *MQ_QSG (The monitoring agents on z/OS systems that monitor the queue-sharing group)

For information on creating your own situations, see the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Help topic: Create a Situation.