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Portal desktop client provides the
graphical user interface into the Tivoli
Monitoringnetwork.
detailed attribute name
The name used in formulas, expert
advice, Take Action commands, and
headers and footers when referencing a
monitoring agent attribute. In the
Properties and Situation editors, you click
Show Formula, then check Show detailed
formula to see the detailed attribute
name.
display item
An attribute designated to further qualify
a situation. With a display item set for a
multiple-row attribute group, the situation
continues to look at the other rows in the
sampling and opens more events if other
rows qualify. The value displays in the
event workspace and in the message log
and situation event console views. You
can select a display item when building a
situation with a multiple-row attribute
group.
distribution
The managed systems on which the
situation is running.
DLL See Dynamic Link Library.
DMZ See Demilitarized Zone.
DSN See datasource name.
Dynamic Link Library
A composite of one or more executable
objects that is bound together by a linking
procedure and loaded at run time (rather
than when the application is linked). The
code and data in a dynamic link library
can be shared by several applications
simultaneously. DLLs apply only to
Windows operating environments
EIB See Enterprise Information Base.
EIF See Event Integration Facility.
endcode
You assign endcodes in a policy as you
connect one activity to another. The
endcode indicates the result of this
activity that will trigger the next activity.
Enterprise Information Base
A database used by the Tivoli Enterprise
Monitoring Server that serves as a
repository of shared objects for all
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systems across your enterprise. The EIB
stores all persistent data, including
situations, policies, user definitions, and
managed-object definitions.
enterprise situation
A situation that is created for a
monitoring agent that reports events to
the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server it
connects to. Enterprise situations are
centrally defined at the monitoring server
and distributed at agent startup. See also
situation.
event An action or some occurrence, such as
running out of memory or completing a
transaction, that can be detected by a
situation. Events cause a change in the
state of a managed object associated with
a situation, thereby make the situation
true and causing an alert to be issued.
event indicator
The colored icon that displays over a
Navigator item when an event opens for
a situation.
Event Integration Facility
An application programming interface
that external applications can invoke to
create, send, or receive Tivoli Enterprise
Console events. These events are referred
to as either EIF events or TEC/EIF events.
event item
A Navigator item that shows when you
open the event workspace for a true
situation (by selecting it from the event
flyover listing or from the situation event
console pop-up menu).
event sound
The sound file that plays when an event
opens. This sound file is set in the
Situation editor when the situation is
associated with a Navigator item and can
differ for different Navigator items.
expert advice
A description within the Situation editor
of each situation provided with a
monitoring agent to help you quickly
understand and interpret events arising
from it.
Extensible Markup Language
A data-description language derived from
Standard Generalized Markup Language
(SGML). A tool for encoding messages so
they describe their own fields, XML