IBM Tivoli Monitoring: UNIX OS Agent Attributes

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.

Workspaces and attributes

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.

Groups of attributes

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.

Platforms supported

Attributes display information on all of the platforms below unless noted otherwise in the attribute usage information.

Assignment of the N/A Value

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.