Systems Management Business System: TEC

Systems Management Business System: TEC

The Tivoli Enterprise Console (TEC) server is part of the Systems Management business system. The TEC component provides a number of monitors and tasks that allow you to use APM to monitor the health of and event load on the TEC server.

The TEC monitors do the following:

The TEC tasks allow you to:

Tasks

Query_Threshold

Use the Query_Threshold command to get the last threshold information of a monitor. You may be prompted for the suborigin of the component instance monitored and the name of the monitor as defined in the CDF.

Query Reporting Mode

Use the Query Reporting Mode command to display the current reporting mode of the TEC instrumentation. The available modes are all and tec. The all mode shows all incoming connections to the TEC server. The tec mode will show only TEC->TEC connections.

Query TEC State

Use the Query TEC State command to display the current state of the TEC server in STDOUT. If the server is running, up is displayed. If the server is not running, down is displayed. If the server has been uninstalled, gone is displayed.

Report All Connections

Use the Report All Connections command to have the reporting mode of the TEC instrumentation report all incomeing connections. You should use this mode if you do not have any TEC->TEC connections in your enterprise.

You must either delete the TEC resource or recycle the APM server when changing from one reporting mode to another.

Report Only TEC-TEC Connections

Use the Report Only TEC-TEC Connections command to have the reporting mode of the TEC instrumentation report only TEC->TEC connections. You should use this mode if you have TEC forwarding TEC events to another TEC.

You must either delete the TEC resource or recycle the APM server when changing from one reporting mode to another.

Set_Polling_Interval

Use the Set_Polling_Interval command to set the monitoring interval for a TEC monitor. You will be prompted to specify 1) the suborigin of the component instance monitored, 2) the name of the monitor as defined in the CDF, and 3) the monitor interval (in minutes).

Set_TEC_Pulse

Use the Set_TEC_Pulse command to set the monitoring interval for the TEC heartbeat monitor. You will be prompted to specify the and a monitor interval (in minutes). The default values for the interval is and 60 minutes.

Set_TEC_Rel_Threshold

Use the Set_TEC_Rel_Threshold command to set the threshold values for the Events Received Rate Monitor. You will be prompted to threshold information. The format for threshold information is: , , , ... E.g. "5, 0, 100" means to send a FATAL (5) event, if the value of Events Received Rate monitor is greater than (0) 100.

Set_TEC_Threshold

Use the Set_TEC_Threshold command to set the monitor threshold for specified monitor. You will be prompted to specify: a suborigin (hostname), a monitor name, and threshold information.

The format for threshold information is as follows: , , . For example, "5, 0, 100" means to send a FATAL (5) event, if the value of a monitor is greater than (0) 100.

If the value you enter in a field includes blank characters, be sure to enclose the value in double quotes.

Start TEC

Use the Start TEC command to start the TEC event server. If the server is already started, this task returns a successful return code. If the server cannot be started, a message is displayed.

Stop TEC

Use the Stop TEC command to stop the TEC event server. If the server is already stopped, this task returns a successful return code.

TEC_Clear_Closed_Events

Use the TEC_Clear_Closed_Events command to clear closed events from the TEC repository. You will be prompted to specify the age in seconds after which events will be cleared.

TEC Clear Reception Log

Use the TEC Clear Reception Log command to clear closed events from the TEC reception log.

TEC Clear Trigger Table

Use the TEC Clear Trigger Table command to clear all events from the TEC trigger table. The trigger table is a subset of TEC's event reception log and is used by the instrumentation to determine connections and event flow into TEC.

TEC Create Trigger

Use the TEC Create Trigger command to create the trigger for the TEC trigger table. The trigger table is a subset of TEC's event reception log and is used by the instrumentation to determine connections and event flow into TEC. The trigger table is created when the rest of the tables for TEC3.1 are installed. Creating the trigger tells the DB to update the threshold table whenever the event reception log table is updated.

TEC Database Status

Use the TEC Database Status command to check that status of database server and return the result to standard out.

TEC Device Space Free (MB)

Use the TEC Device Space Free (MB) command to determine the number of MB free in the TEC device space.

TEC Device Space Free (pct)

Use the TEC Device Space Free (pct) command to determine the percent of memory free in the TEC device space.

TEC Device dSpace Used (MB)

Use the TEC Device Space Used (MB) command to determine the number of MB used in the TEC device space.

TEC Device Space Used (pct)

Use the TEC Device Space Free (pct) command to determine the percent of memory used in the TEC device space.

TEC Server Status

Use the TEC Server Status command to determine the status of the TEC Event Server and return the result to standard out.

Monitors

TEC Database Status

The TEC Database Status monitor checks the status of the database server and sends an event when it detects a change of status.

TEC Server Status

The TEC Server Status monitor checks the status of the TEC server and sends an event when it detects a change of status.

TEC Server Status

The TEC Heartbeat monitor checks the status of the TEC server and sends a heartbeat event when TEC is running.

TEC Events Received Per Hour

The TEC Events Received Per Hour monitor counts and returns the number of events the TEC server receives per hour by relationship class type from each of the components connected to TEC.

The events are saved in the trigger table of the TEC log and a task (TEC Clear Trigger Table) is provided as part of the TEC instrumentation to allow you to clear old events from the trigger table.

TEC Events Sent Per Hour

The TEC Events Sent Per Hour monitor counts and returns the number of events the TEC server sends per hour by relationship class type from each of the components connected to TEC.

TEC Connection Change

The TEC Connection Change monitor sends connection change event when it detects that new relationships to TEC has been added since the last time the TEC Connection Change monitor was invoked.

TEC Device Space Used (MB)

The TEC Device Space Used (MB) monitor checks the number of megabytes of device space being used and issues a warning event when the space used is high. The user is responsible for setting the threshold values for device space used. The threshold values can be set by editing the monitors in the monitor profile dialog.

TEC Device Space Used (pct)

The TEC Device Space Used (pct) monitor checks the percentage of device space used and issues a warning event when that percentage is high. The user is responsible for setting the threshold values for device space used. The threshold values can be set by editing the monitors in the monitor profile dialog.

TEC Device Space Free (MB)

The TEC Device Space Free (MB) monitor checks the number of free megabytes of device space and issues a warning event when the free space is low. The user is responsible for setting the threshold values for device space free. The threshold values can be set by editing the monitors in the monitor profile dialog.

TEC Device Space Free (pct)

The TEC Device Space Free (pct) monitor checks the percentage of device space free and issues a warning event when that percentage is high. The user is responsible for setting the threshold values for device space used. The threshold values can be set by editing the monitors in the monitor profile dialog.

TEC Event

The connections between APM components are defined by relationship class type. TEC Event is currently the only relationship class defined for events to TEC.