Tivoli® Enterprise
Portal gathers
data from remote agents located within your systems. The portal stores
this data for OMEGAMON® XE for Storage on z/OS® in
elements called attributes.
Each attribute is a characteristic of an object. For example, the
All Channels Busy Percent attribute in the Logical Control Unit attribute
group displays the percentage of the time that all channel paths to
an LCU were busy.
- Attribute groups
- The OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS attributes
are organized into groups of related items. These groups of attributes
comprise the attribute tables for the product.
Note: In the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal, the
names of attribute groups are preceded by "S3," which is the
product code for Tivoli OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS.
- Attributes and workspaces
- You can view the data reported
for the attribute in the reports
and charts displayed in the OMEGAMON XE for Storage on z/OS workspaces.
The workspaces contain the table views you use to obtain information
about the various aspects of your environment. The table views and
graphs within each workspace report the storage attribute information
you are monitoring. You can use the collected data to analyze and
monitor performance.
- Attributes and situations
- Attributes are used in the predefined situations for the product.
You can also create custom situations for to monitor the performance
of your z/OS systems. These situations can monitor one
aspect of your enterprise or analyze multiple conditions to alert
you to problems that can occur when attribute values exceed their
thresholds.