Views

Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal offers many different views that you can add to your workspaces.

The view title bar has buttons for creating another view by splitting the view horizontally or vertically, for maximizing the view, and for deleting the view.

To add a different view complete the following steps:

1. Select a view, then click Split Horizontally.

   This tool divides the view space in half horizontally to create a copy of the original view.

   If you cannot split a view and the tools for the notepad and other views are disabled (dimmed), your user ID does not have Workspace Author Mode permission.

2. Click the view type from the toolbar. For example, click Notepad.

   When you click a view tool, the mouse pointer changes to an icon of the chosen view type (hand icon on Linux).

3. Click inside the view pane. The new view replaces the previous view.

To rearrange views complete the following steps:

1. Drag the title bar of one view and drop over another view.

   While dragging the title bar, you should see a semi-transparent copy of the view.

2. Release the mouse button to switch the views.

Query-based views

The table and chart views are the first step to getting meaningful information from the data being collected. When you understand what values and states are causing problems, you can refine your views to show what is important. For attribute groups with attributes that can be expressed meaningfully as objects and show their relationship to other attributes in the same group, there is also the Relational Table Based topology view.

The table view and chart views display data the monitoring agents have gathered from the systems where they are running.

The topology shows the arrangement of monitored components associated with its Navigator item.

Event views

The message log view and console views (universal message, situation event, common event, and Tivoli Enterprise Console) update automatically to show new events as they arrive and changes in event status as they occur. The graphic view gives you a pictorial alternative to the Navigator for indicating alerts.

The message log view shows the status of events that have been opened on the entire monitored enterprise and can include up to 100 row entries at a time.

The universal message console view displays situation and policy activities as they happen, such as when a situation has been created or deleted or a policy has been activated.

The graphic view places Navigator items and their alerts as icons on a map or a picture to represent your monitored environment.

The situation event console view shows the status of situation events that have been opened on this branch of the Navigator. The console has a toolbar for quick filtering and a menu for responding to alerts.

The common event console view integrates events from multiple event repositories: Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server, Tivoli Enterprise Console® event server, and Netcool/OMNIbus ObjectServer. This view has the same functional capabilities as the situation event console view, such as the ability to sort and filter events.

The Tivoli Enterprise Console event viewer can integrate events from the Tivoli Enterprise Console Server with those from the Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Server.

Other views

Cloud Pak System Software Monitoring Portal workspaces can also have any of the following specialized views:

The notepad view opens a simple text editor for writing notes or other text that can be saved with the workspace.

The take action view enables you to send a command to a managed system.

The terminal view starts a 3270 or 5250 session for working with z/OS applications, or a Telnet session for working with the TCP/IP network.

The browser view opens the integrated browser for accessing web pages.