Managing events in the Event Viewer

A timer on the status bar displays the time remaining until the next Event Viewer refresh. Click the timer to pause the countdown, and click it again to refresh the Event Viewer and resume the periodic refresh.

• To select a different filter, click the drop-down list of filters on the toolbar and select an item from the list. To locate a filter more quickly, you can type its name, or the first few characters of the name, in the filter list. This function is useful when there are large number of filters and the one you require is towards the end of the list. After being selected, the event list rows update according to the filter settings.

1. Select one or more events in the event list or the event details window.
2. Right-click on the selection and click Copy.
3. If a confirmation dialog is displayed, click OK to complete the copying of the data.

Copy a cell from the Event Viewer

1. Launch Event Viewer.
2. Click Preferences . The Workspace Preferences window displays.
3. Within this window, select the Data tab.
4. Within this tab, tick the Copy cell only check-box.
5. Select Apply & Save.
6. Within Event Viewer, position your cursor in the cell you want to copy and press CTRL+C. Alternatively, within the cell, right-click and from the drop-down menu select Copy.

Enable clickable links in the Event Viewer cells

1. Set EDS mode as the download method of events from the server to the Event Viewer. In WEBGUI_HOME/etc/server.init, have the property value eventviewer.data.provider.mode:0
2. Log in to your ObjectServer. You can use the nco_config tool.
3. Go to Databases > alert.status > Data View tab
4. In the Data View tab, select a summary field.
5. Update the summary field with External Link.
6. In the Event Viewer, click View Builder, the View Builder starts.
7. In View Builder, select Default Global View > Display columns > Event List View > Summary Field .
8. Select the HTML Column check-box.
9. Save the view.

• Add external clickable link into a HTML column (example)
  • Go to Databases > alert.status > Data View tab > Summary.
  • Add the following code.

  <a href="http://www.ibm.com" 
  target="_blank" 
  style="background-color: yellow; 
  color: black; 
  display: block; width: 100%; 
  height: 100%; 
  text-align: center;">External Link!</a>

  • After you add the code and save the view, the Event Viewer summary column displays a link called External Link, when the user clicks on that link, a window opens which displays the IBM website.
  • If you want to change the HTML column appearance,then apply CSS by using the style attribute.
• Run a tool from a HTML column (example)
  • To run a tool from a HTML column, use the executeWebGUITool<TOOL_NAME> function, the parameter for this function is the <TOOL_NAME>
  • To run the acknowledge tool, use the following type of code.

  <a href="javascript:executeWebGUITool
  ('acknowledge')" 
  style="background-color: #F00; 
  color: #FFF; 
  display: block; width: 100%; 
  height: 100%; 
  text-align: center;
  ">Acknowledge Tool</a>

  • To run a tool that requires more parameters, separate the parameters with _ in the executeWebGUITool function. For example, to run the Prioritise > Critical tool, use the following type of code.

  <a href="javascript:executeWebGUITool
  ('prioritise_Critical')" 
  style="background-color: #F00; 
  color: #FFF; 
  display: block; width: 100%; 
  height: 100%; 
  text-align: center;
  ">Prioritise Tool > Criticial Link</a>

Select all events

Deselect all events

Filtering events by keywords

Changing user preferences

Creating custom quick filters

1. Click the drop-down menu beside the toolbar text box > Build Quick Filter.
2. A window opens where you can select a Field, Operator, and enter a Search Term.

Return to the default filter and view

• For an Event Viewer page in a Dashboard Application Services Hub environment, the view and filter defined in the portlet preferences is reapplied.
• For a pop-up event view, the view and filter defined in the pop-up's URL is reapplied.

When data is sorted by a field that has conversions in the data source, the sorting is done by the conversion value of the field (that is, the display value) and not the underlying integer field value. Examples of such fields are Acknowledged, Class, and OwnerUID.

Moving columns

Alternatively, you can click on a column header to select that column. Then, use CTRL+right arrow or CTRL+left arrow to move the column right or left in the grid.

1. Select an event or a row containing multiple events.
2. Right-click on the selected item to display the Alerts menu.
3. Click the event management tool that you want to run.
4. If prompted, enter or select information that a tool requires.

Displaying a watch list map

1. Edit the Event Viewer widget preferences and enable Show watch list filters.
2. Edit the Map widget preferences and enable Display dynamic watch list map.

Adding to a watch list

1. Select one or more rows in the event list.
2. Right-click on the selected item and click Add to watch list.
3. From the drop down list select the watch list you want to add to. You can also type the first letters of the watch list name and select it from the options provided.
4. Optional: select the Conditions tab and verify the changes to the watch list.
5. Click Add.

Execute tools on the Event Viewer using keyboard shortcuts

Copy selected events to clipboard (System)

Launch View Builder (System)

Launch Filter Builder (System)

Refresh event display (System)

Freeze event display (System)

Show event information (System)

Show event journal (System)

Acknowledge selected events (Custom)

De-acknowledge selected events (Custom)

Open the Preferences window (System)