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on and a sound to play for an open event. Predefined situations are associated automatically, as are situations created or edited through the Navigator item pop-up menu. When you open the Situation editor from the toolbar, any situations you create cannot be associated with a Navigator item during this editing session. You must close the Situation editor, then open it again from the pop-up menu of the Navigator item with which the situation should be associated. attribute (1) A system or application element being monitored by the monitoring agent, such as Disk Name and Disk Read/Writes Per Second. (2) A characteristic of a managed object; that is, a field in the data structure of a managed object or in the workspace associated with that managed object. (3) A field in an ODBC-compliant database. attribute group A set of related attributes that can be combined in a data view or a situation. When you open the view or start the situation, data samples of the selected attributes are retrieved. Each type of monitoring agent has its own set of attribute groups. baroc files Basic Recorder of Objects in C files define event classes for a particular Tivoli Enterprise Console event server. Baroc files also validate event formats based on these event-class definitions. browser client The software installed with the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server that is downloaded to your computer when you start the Tivoli Enterprise Portal browser client. The browser client runs under control of a web browser. Candle Management Workstation The client component of a CandleNet Command Center environment; it provides the graphical user interface. It is replaced by the Tivoli Enterprise Portal. chart A graphical view of data returned from a monitoring agent. A data point is plotted for each attribute chosen and, for bar and 272 IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Troubleshooting Guide pie charts, a data series for each row. Types of charts include pie, bar, plot, and gauge. CIM See Common Information Model. class file A file containing Java object code for a single Java object class. class loader A Java component that loads Java class files. client An application that receives requested data from a server. client/server architecture An architecture in which the client (usually a personal computer or workstation) is the machine requesting data or services and the server is the machine supplying them. Servers can be microcomputers, minicomputers, or mainframes. The client provides the user interface and may perform application processing. In IBM Tivoli Monitoring the Tivoli Enterprise Portal is the client to the Tivoli Enterprise Portal Server. A database server maintains the databases and processes requests from the client to extract data from or to update the database. An application server provides additional business-support processing for the clients. Common Information Model An XML-based standard for defining device and application characteristics so that system administrators and management programs can monitor and control them using the same set of tools, regardless of their differing architectures. CIM provides a more comprehensive toolkit for such management functions than the Simple Network Management Protocol. Common Object Request Broker Architecture An industry specification for the design and standardization of different types of object request brokers (ORBs). ORBs allow different computers to exchange object data; CORBA enables ORBs from different software vendors (often running under dissimilar computer systems and operating systems) to exchange object data. CORBA is an architecture and specification that facilitates