Wiring an event list to display related events from a gauge

To configure a page to display events for a gauge metric in an Event Viewer or AEL, create a page that contains the Gauges widget and the Event Viewer or Active Event List (AEL) widget, and then customize the Gauges widget to display events in the Event Viewer or AEL when you click the gauge.

Before you begin

Depending on the requirements that you have of the page, perform some or all of the tasks described in Developing dashboards for event visualization.

About this task

Restriction: The following restriction applies if you create the page in freeform mode: If you overlay widgets on top of another, so that one widget is only partially visible beneath another widget, limitations apply. If the widget underneath it is applet-based and the widget on top is HTML-based, the applet-based widget is visible through the HTML widget. This limitation shows when you arrange the widgets on the page. The following Web GUI widgets are applet-based: Active Event List (AEL), Maps, and Event Dashboard. For example, if you arrange an Event Viewer over an AEL, the AEL is visible through the Event Viewer. To avoid this problem, arrange applet-based widgets and HTML-based widgets alongside each other, not over each other.

Procedure

In these steps, event list refers to either the AEL or Event Viewer, depending on which widget you want to add to the page. To create the page, and configure the communication between the widgets:

  1. Log in as a user that has the iscadmins role.
  2. Create the page, assign it to a location in the navigation and specify the roles that users need to view the page.
  3. Add the Gauges widget and the required event list to the page.
  4. Edit the widget preferences for the gauges.
  5. From the Click action list, select Send Event (using wires), and then click OK. Repeat this step for each gauge with associated metrics that represent event data.
    By default, events for the following metrics can be rendered as events in the Event Viewer or AEL:
    • status
    • escalated
    • unresolved
    • acknowledged
    • lastminute
    • SM_DataSourceCommand
    • SM_EventData
    • SM_EventSummaryData
    • SM_JVM
    • SM_MetricData
    • SM_ResultsCache
    • SM_SecurityRepository
    • SM_WebGUI
    • SM_VMM
  6. Specify the wires that connect the Event Viewer and the AEL:
    Note: This step is not required in Tivoli Netcool/OMNIbus V8.1 if a global or system filter with the same name as the metric (case-sensitive) is defined and the widgets are on the same page. This includes all the SM_ metrics described above for which a system filter is provided out-of-the box.
    • From the page action list, select Edit Page.
    • Click Show Wires, and then click New Wire.
    • In the Select Source Event for New Wire window, select Gauges > NodeClickedOn, and then click OK.
    • In the Select Target for New Wire window, select the Event Viewer, and then click OK.
    • This step is optional if a global or system filter with the same name as the metric (case-sensitive) is defined. This includes all the SM_ metrics described above for which a system filter is provided out-of-the box. In the Transformation window, select Show Gauge Events. A description of the transformation is displayed, which states that the transform can be applied to the Event Viewer. This transformation is the default custom transformation. However, you can add your own custom transformations.
      Note: This applies only to a global or system filter with the same name as the metric. User and group filters are not supported.
    • Select Event Viewer from the Select Target for New Wire window, and then click OK.
  7. Save the page.

Results

You can now click a gauge in the Gauges widget page and display its associated events in the Event Viewer widget page.