Using the Navigator
The Navigator provides a hierarchical view of your enterprise. At the highest level you can get a high level overview of the status of your monitored environment. From there you can navigate to specific monitored resources to check activity and investigate problems.
At every level, event indicators alert you to changes in system or application conditions.
Navigator overview
The Navigator provides a hierarchical view of your enterprise. At the highest level you can get a high level overview of the status of your monitored environment. From there you can navigate to specific monitored resources to check activity and investigate problems.
Navigator tools
Use the tools in the Navigator view toolbar to update the display when managed systems have come online or gone offline, to open another Navigator view, to edit custom Navigator views, and to collapse the view.
Situation event indicators
When you see a small colored icon overlay the Navigator icons, you are seeing an event indicator . An event indicator is displayed when a situation (a test of certain conditions) running on a system becomes true.
More... indicators
You might sometimes see More indicators in the Navigator. These indicators are used to keep the Navigator tree compact so that you can see more in the viewable area without having to scroll.
Expanding the Navigator in increments
More indicators in the Navigator keep the tree compact. Click the indicator to open that branch of the tree. You can specify how many items to expand at one time.
Collapsing and expanding the Navigator
To provide more space for workspace views, you can hide the Navigator, then restore it when you want to see it.
Finding Navigator items
The Navigator shows all the managed systems that run on an operating system and this list can get very long. Use the Find tool to locate Navigator items based on properties such as IP address or associated situations.
Opening a Navigator view
The initial Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal workplace has a Navigator Physical view and a Logical view and any other views that were predefined for your product. You can switch between Navigator views to see the items and workspaces of another Navigator.
Refreshing the Navigator
The Navigator refreshes automatically whenever the status of agents changes between offline and online. The Navigator does not update automatically when an agent is removed from or a new agent is added to the managed network. When the tool is enabled, click Apply pending updates to manually refresh the Navigator.
Responding to an application support event
Use the Show new or updated application support tool to see a count of the version mismatch messages, to view a list of application support version mismatches between the Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal client and server, and to see instructions for correcting the discrepancy.
Removing an event item
When you open an event results workspace, a new item is displayed in the Navigator. If you use event acknowledgment, other icons overlay the situation icon. If you close the event, all overlay icons are removed, but the Navigator item itself is not removed until you end your Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal session. If you do not want to have the event item in the Navigator, you can remove it.
Removing an offline managed system Navigator item
Use the Managed System Status workspace to clear offline managed systems from the Navigator view.