Attributes

Use the IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor attributes to build table views, charts, and situations that monitor the performance of your network.

Associating attributes with table views: There is a direct relationship between the IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor attributes and table views. An attribute group corresponds to a table view. For each attribute group, there are one or more attribute items. The attribute items correspond to columns in a table view. To find general information about an attribute group, select it from the Help Table of Contents.

The table views provide real-time information for many of the attributes. These views are available to you at any time, independent of whether you are using IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor to monitor situations.

IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor provides Tivoli Enterprise Portal workspaces that are accessed from the Navigator and 3270 workspaces access from the Enhanced 3270 user interface. Each of these workspaces displays views that can be altered or replaced, to meet your needs. Each workspace is associated with one or more attribute tables.

Unsigned integers: When an attribute is described as an unsigned integer or an unsigned two-byte integer, the value will be displayed as a positive value in the Tivoli Enterprise Portal and the IBM Z OMEGAMON Network Monitor. However, the IBM Tivoli Data Warehouse stores all integers as signed values. In addition, the TEMS will evaluate situations with all integer attributes as signed integers. A signed integer may have a maximum value of 2,147,483,647 (x'7FFFFFFF'). A signed two-byte integer may have a maximum value of 32,767 (x'7FFF'). To test for an unsigned value over 2,147,483,647 in a situation, you must instead test for a value less than zero (<0).