Applying filters and thresholds

You can apply filters and thresholds to adjust the event list and the number of rows that are displayed from the console.

About this task

You can adjust the event list to show only those of a certain severity or status, owner, attribute or attribute value, or associated with another Navigator item. You can also limit or expand the maximum number of rows that can show on the console, and you can apply thresholds to cells. Tools are provided for the most common filters, state and status, so you can quickly toggle a filter on or off.
Severity
All severities are shown in the event list. You can filter the list to show one or two states instead of all:

  • Click Fatal event, Fatal event, Minor event, Warning event, Harmless event, Informational event or Unknown event to filter the view to show only events with that severity.

  • Click a tool again to remove that particular filter.
Status
All status types are shown in the event list. You can filter the list to show only a certain status:
  • Click Filter Open Open, Filter acknowledged Acknowledged, Filter Stopped Stopped, or Filter Problem Problem to filter on one or more of these statuses.
  • Click a tool again to remove that particular filter.
Column
The toolbar enables you to filter the list by Severity, Status, or Owner. Through the menu, you can filter on any column and even multiple columns.
  1. Right-click the cell on whose value you want to filter the incoming data.
  2. Click Set quick filterSet Quick Filter, then select the attribute (attribute name == value).
If you want to remove the quick filter, right-click a cell in the same column, point to Set Quick Filter, and click either Remove Quick Filter to remove the last filter applied or Remove Quick Filter Predicate and select the filter to remove.
Navigator item
Initially, the event console shows events for the situations associated with the current Navigator item. You can change the view to show the event list for a different Navigator item:

  1. Select the Navigator item whose events you want to see.

  2. Hold down the Ctrl key while dragging the Navigator item into the view.

  3. When the mouse is over one of the rows, release the mouse button.

Number of rows
Tivoli Enterprise Portal enters a row in the table at the time a change to the event status takes place. As new rows arrive, they appear in descending order with the oldest rows at the bottom. After the maximum (100 is the default) is reached, the oldest row is removed as each new row arrives. The view refreshes every time a new event arrives, so the more rows you have in the view, the more time the refresh takes. To change the maximum:
  1. Right-click anywhere in the event console view.
  2. Click Set Max Rows, then select 50, 100 or 500 from the list.
Quick threshold
Use the quick settings to highlight cell values that fall outside the threshold:

  1. Right-click the cell on whose value you want to apply a threshold indicator.

  2. Click Set Quick Threshold, then select the severity to apply to that attribute value (attribute name == value).

If you want to remove the quick thresholds applied to the view, right-click a cell in the same column, point to Set Quick Threshold, and click either Remove Quick Thresholds to remove the last threshold applied, or Remove Quick Thresholds Predicate and select the threshold to remove.

If you edit the properties for this view, you can make the quick filter or quick threshold permanent by right-clicking the row number and clicking Remove Quick Flag in the Filters or Thresholds tab.