Monitoring Storage Toolkit action requests

This topic describes the workspaces that monitor the status of Storage Toolkit action requests. You access these workspaces through the Storage Toolkit Action Requests node in the Tivoli® Enterprise Portal.

See Workspaces for general information on predefined workspaces and a list of all nodes that are included in the OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS product. Each node corresponds to a specific area of storage resource monitoring. And each node includes links to a unique set of storage resource workspaces. See Accessing workspaces to learn about navigating among workspaces. And see Integration with other products to learn about linking to the workspaces of other IBM Tivoli Monitoring products.

Navigating the workspaces of the Storage Toolkit node

This section summarizes the workspace links that are available through the Navigator node. Depending on your monitoring goal, you follow a specific series of links to get detailed information about storage resources.

You start in the Storage Toolkit Action Requests node to navigate to the workspaces that you see in Table 1. You can access the workspaces in this table using the standard path and method for navigating workspaces.

Table 1. Storage Toolkit Action Requests node: bulleted list showing the hierarchy of linked workspaces
Storage Toolkit Action Requests Storage Toolkit Action Requests Storage Toolkit Result Summary Storage Toolkit Result Detail

Storage Toolkit Action Requests workspace

This topic describes the main components of the principal workspace for this node.

The following sections describe various components of this workspace. For a description of the data used as column headings in the workspace table view, see Storage Toolkit.

Views

This workspace provides the following views. For a description of the attributes used as column headings in the workspace table view, review the attribute group definitions for this workspace in the online help. The help resource includes attribute descriptions that are displayed when you hover with the mouse pointer over a column heading.

Storage Toolkit Action Requests table view

The table view display one row of data for each action created by the user. The view contains the following information:

Name of user who created action request
Name of request as given by user
Description of request as given by user
The type of action.
Number of times request has run
Return code for most recently completed action
Date/time request was created
Date/time most recently completed action completed
Command issued for execution
Scheduled dates/time at which action request is to run

Workspaces that are linked to this workspace

See Navigating the workspaces of the Storage Toolkit node.

Learn how to navigate to workspaces here: Accessing workspaces. Also see Integration with other products.

See Workspaces for a list of all nodes provided in OMEGAMON for Storage on z/OS.

Summary information for the workspaces in this node

This section lists the views and related attribute groups for the workspaces of the Storage Toolkit node.

See Storage Toolkit Action Requests workspace for more information on the primary workspace for this node.

Table 2. Storage Toolkit Action Requests workspace
View	View type	Attribute group
Action Requests	TABLE	Storage Toolkit Request
Requests with Last Return Code > 0	BAR	Storage Toolkit Request

Table 3. Storage Toolkit Result Summary workspace
View	View type	Attribute group
Action Results Summary	TABLE	Storage Toolkit Result Summary
Return Code	BAR	Storage Toolkit Result Summary
Output Line Count	BAR	Storage Toolkit Result Summary

Table 4. Storage Toolkit Result Detail workspace
View	View type	Attribute group
Resource List	TABLE	Storage Toolkit Result Resource
Action Results Detail	TABLE	Storage Toolkit Result Detail