An attribute is a characteristic of a managed object (node). For example, Disk Name is an attribute for a disk, which is a managed object.
Use IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent attributes to build situations that monitor the performance of your UNIX network managed systems. When the values of the selected attributes in a situation exceed their threshold settings, the agent posts an alert to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal console notifying you of a problem.
The IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent workspaces provide real-time information on many of the attributes. Each column in a table view corresponds to an attribute. And each data series in a chart corresponds to an attribute.
Each attribute belongs to an attribute group. The attribute group includes attributes that are related. Each attribute item stores data for a particular property of an attribute group.
There are nine attribute groups for IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent. The groups are collected in attribute tables that are designated in brackets [ ] after the group name.
Disk group [UNIXDISK]
Disk_Performance group [UNIXDPERF]
File_Information group [UNIXFILE]
Network group [UNIXNET]
Network File System Remote Procedure Calls (NFS RPC) group [UNIXNFS]
UNIX Print Queue group [UNXPRINTQ]
Process group [UNIXPS]
SMP_CPU group [UNIXCPU]
System group [UNIXOS]
Attributes display information on all of the platforms below unless noted otherwise in the attribute usage information.
AIX
HP-UX
Not all UNIX systems display all UNIX attributes. For example, AIX systems do not display the CPU ID on which the process is running. If your system does not display a value for a certain attribute, you see
N/A
in fields relating to that attribute. N/A stands for Not Available. A value of N/A means that this information is not currently being collected for the UNIX platform on which your system is running. For example, HP-UX and Solaris systems do not display Busy Percent information.