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Portal desktop client provides the graphical user interface into the Tivoli Monitoringnetwork. detailed attribute name The name used in formulas, expert advice, Take Action commands, and headers and footers when referencing a monitoring agent attribute. In the Properties and Situation editors, you click Show Formula, then check Show detailed formula to see the detailed attribute name. display item An attribute designated to further qualify a situation. With a display item set for a multiple-row attribute group, the situation continues to look at the other rows in the sampling and opens more events if other rows qualify. The value displays in the event workspace and in the message log and situation event console views. You can select a display item when building a situation with a multiple-row attribute group. distribution The managed systems on which the situation is running. DLL See Dynamic Link Library. DMZ See Demilitarized Zone. DSN See datasource name. Dynamic Link Library A composite of one or more executable objects that is bound together by a linking procedure and loaded at run time (rather than when the application is linked). The code and data in a dynamic link library can be shared by several applications simultaneously. DLLs apply only to Windows operating environments EIB See Enterprise Information Base. EIF See Event Integration Facility. endcode You assign endcodes in a policy as you connect one activity to another. The endcode indicates the result of this activity that will trigger the next activity. Enterprise Information Base A database used by the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server that serves as a repository of shared objects for all 274 IBM Tivoli Monitoring: Troubleshooting Guide systems across your enterprise. The EIB stores all persistent data, including situations, policies, user definitions, and managed-object definitions. enterprise situation A situation that is created for a monitoring agent that reports events to the Tivoli Enterprise Monitoring Server it connects to. Enterprise situations are centrally defined at the monitoring server and distributed at agent startup. See also situation. event An action or some occurrence, such as running out of memory or completing a transaction, that can be detected by a situation. Events cause a change in the state of a managed object associated with a situation, thereby make the situation true and causing an alert to be issued. event indicator The colored icon that displays over a Navigator item when an event opens for a situation. Event Integration Facility An application programming interface that external applications can invoke to create, send, or receive Tivoli Enterprise Console events. These events are referred to as either EIF events or TEC/EIF events. event item A Navigator item that shows when you open the event workspace for a true situation (by selecting it from the event flyover listing or from the situation event console pop-up menu). event sound The sound file that plays when an event opens. This sound file is set in the Situation editor when the situation is associated with a Navigator item and can differ for different Navigator items. expert advice A description within the Situation editor of each situation provided with a monitoring agent to help you quickly understand and interpret events arising from it. Extensible Markup Language A data-description language derived from Standard Generalized Markup Language (SGML). A tool for encoding messages so they describe their own fields, XML