Tivoli Enterprise Console event viewer and console toolbars
The Tivoli Enterprise Console event viewer has tools for working with events and filtering them. It also has a menu for actions to take on the selected row. When a dialog box is displayed you can click Help to access the Tivoli Enterprise Console help system.
Preferences- This tool opens the Preferences window. The changes you make are for your user ID and affect this and all new Tivoli Enterprise Console event viewers. General preferences set the refresh rate for displaying new events, the age of closed events to display, and the number of events to display. The Working Queue/All Events preferences determine the column sort order in the Working Queue and All Events queue. Severity Colors preferences determine whether or not hover and column highlighting are activated, and what colors to use for event severity.
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Task with Selected Event- This tool opens a window for configuring automated tasks, which
run when a particular event is received by the event console. For
example, you can configure an automated task to send an email message
to an administrator when an event matching the criteria you defined
ahead of time is received by the event console.
When an automated task completes, it issues information about its success or failure and any results created by the task. An icon is displayed in the
Task Completion column of the Event Viewer
when an automated task completes. You can double-click this icon to
view the task results. This icon also is displayed for rule-based
tasks that have completed.Automated task results are written to a text file, which is configured in the Console Properties editor for each console.
Reload Events- This tool is used to clear the view and reload the events. A query is sent to the event database and the results are displayed in the view.
Open Automated Task- Use this tool to open the Automated Task window for viewing, editing, creating, and deleting automated tasks.
Hide Severity- These tools show the number of events for each severity and enable you to filter out Unknown, Harmless, Warning, Minor, Critical, or Fatal events or any combination thereof. The example here shows that Harmless events have been excluded and the number received is 0. These are toggle tools: click again to resume display of that event severity.
Hide Status- These tools filter events by their status: Open, Response, Acknowledged, and Closed. These are toggle tools: click again to resume display of events of that status.
Hide Operators' Events- These tools hide the events for your user ID or those of all other operators signed on to the event server. These are toggle tools: click again to resume display of the events for your user ID or other operators.
- Task Completion
- An automated task is configured to run when certain types of events have been received by the event console. When an automated task completes, it issues information about its success or failure, and any results created by the task. The task-completion icon is displayed in the first column of the Event Viewer after an automated task or rule-based task has completed. Double-click this icon to view the task results.
Event view rows
Each event received by the Tivoli Enterprise Console adds a row to the view showing summary information. When you select an event (or multiple events with Ctrl+click or Shift+click), you can right-click to get a menu of options. The buttons are also enabled.Buttons
Select an event row to enable the buttons to Acknowledge the event, Close the event, open a tabbed window with event Details, or display Information about the event. The Refresh button shows the event server icon. The button is disabled when no events have arrived since the last refresh of the view; and enabled when new events have arrived.