In an IBM® Tivoli® Monitoring environment,
use Navigator groups to group several related data sources (attribute
groups) together so that workspaces can be created that show views
that combine the data sources. You can create a navigator group while
you create an agent by using the New Agent wizard at the base agent
level. You can also create a navigator group while you define a subnode
by using the New Agent Component wizard.
About this task
For example, you might be able
to collect file system data from more than one data source. It can
be useful to create one workspace that shows views of all file system
data from those different data sources.
Navigator
groups are also a good way to hide data sources on the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. You might decide
that metrics collected from two data sources are most useful if the
data sources are joined to create a new combined data source. You
want to see only the combined data in the Joined data source. You
can create a navigator group that contains all three data sources
and create a workspace that contains views to display only the combined
data source. The two original data sources are effectively hidden
from view in the Tivoli Enterprise
Portal. See Creating data sets from existing sources for
information about joining data sources.
Note: When you group
data sources in a navigator group, Tivoli Monitoring
does not associate a query with the navigator group. It is assumed
that you define a default workspace for the navigator group to display
the data sources in a useful format.
A navigator group can be
defined in the base agent or in a subnode. A navigator group cannot
contain another Navigator group.
Navigator groups
have no effect in an IBM Cloud Application Performance Management environment.
Procedure
- Take one of the following steps:
- When creating a new agent using the Agent wizard,
on the Agent Initial Data Source page,
click Data source groupings in
the Monitoring Data Categories area.
- With an existing agent, take the following steps in the Agent
Editor:
- Click the Data Sources tab
to open the Data Source Definition page.
- Select the agent and click Add to selected.
- On the Data Source Location page,
in the Monitoring Data Categories area,
click Data source groupings.
- In the Data Sources area,
click A navigator group.
- Click Next.
- On the Navigator Group Information page,
type the navigator group name and the text for the Help you want associated
with the name, and click Next.
Note: Agent Builder automatically creates navigator
groups in certain situations. The following navigator group name is
reserved:
.
- On the First Navigator Group Data
Source page, select the first source of monitoring data
for the new navigator group. Click a category in the Monitoring Data Categories list and a data
source in the Data Sources list.
Then, click Next.
Tip: You can create the data source as usual. Alternatively,
click Existing data sources and
choose to move one or more data sources that you already created into
the navigator group.
- If you want to create a data source within a navigator
group, on the Data Source Definition page,
select the navigator group, and click Add
to Selected.
- If you want to move existing data sources
into the navigator group, on the Data Source
Definition page, select the navigator group, and click Add to Selected and on the Navigator Group Data Source page, select Existing data sources. In the Currently
Defined Data Sources page, select the data sources.
- If you want to remove a data source from a navigator group,
do one of the following steps on the Data
Source Definition page:
- Select the data source, and drag it to the root of the data
sources tree.
- Select the data source, and clicking Remove.
- If you want to create a navigator group, do one of the
following steps on the Data Source Definition page:
- Click Add to Agent.
- Select a subnode and click Add to
Selected.