You can configure the appearance and behavior of the Event
Viewer to
customize style, layout, or localization. The workspace preferences
outlined in this topic are general user preferences which can apply
to any Event
Viewer.
Some preference settings might have been disabled (in widget preferences
by the administrator) for the individual instance of Event
Viewer that
you have open. In such a case, a preference can still be edited but
it will be shown grayed out to indicate that it will not take effect
for this Event
Viewer.
Before you begin
If preferences have been used to hide the toolbar or the preferences
button itself, you can open the preferences window via the menu bar.
If the menu bar is also hidden, you can execute the SHIFT-P keyboard
shortcut to display the preferences window.
- All user preferences set in are
applied to the Event
Viewer,
with the exception of Refresh rate (which is configured via the Event
Viewer portlet
preferences).
- Preferences set in the AEL for Row Coloring and Changing
how event severity is depicted are adopted by the Event
Viewer,
until such time as workspace preferences are customized in the Event
Viewer.
- Changes made to Date/Time Format and Time
Zone preferences in the Event
Viewer are
also applied to the AEL, and vice versa.
- Changes made to font name, size, or row padding will also take
effect in the event properties window, the next time one is opened
from the Event
Viewer.
- The toolbar will not be shown if there are no items to show on
it, regardless of whether Show Toolbar is ticked
or not.
Procedure
- On the toolbar, click Workspace Preferences.
The workspace preferences are divided into Style, Layout, Data,
and Notification tabs.
- Style
- Configure font and row style preferences. Custom font names, font
sizes, and row padding values can be typed into the available fields
or selected from the drop-down list of default values. You can show
event severity as icons or as text, or as a combination of icons and
text.
- Font Name
- If an invalid font name is entered, or the font does not exist
on the operating system, the next available font from the normal theme
will be applied.
- Font Size
- Row Padding
- Row Coloring
- Column Locking
- If enabled, columns defined as locked in the current view will
always be displayed when scrolling horizontally.
- Icon Display
- Show icons only
- Show icons and text
- Show text only
- Configure the Filter drop-down and View drop-down
to display longer names.
- You can specify custom width values, in pixels, for both drop-downs. Enable custom widths by
ticking the Custom widths check-box within the Workspace
Preferences dialog. Then, enter a width value for each drop-down, the value must be
between 180 and the maximum value (the default maximum value is 500). If you enter a value that
exceeds the maximum value that is configured, an error message displays.
- A maximum value for the Custom widths drop-down can be configured by the
Administrator. To configure a maximum value, the Administrator goes to the
WEBGUI_HOME/etc/system/userdefaults.props file and configures the property
value for the following two properties.
event_viewer_eventlist_filter_dropdown_width_max
event_viewer_eventlist_view_dropdown_width_max
- Layout
- Configure workspace layout preferences.
- Show Toolbar
- Refresh
- Freeze
- Filters and Views
- Event Summary
- Preferences
- Quick Filter
- Show Menu
- Show Status Bar
- Data
- Configure workspace localization preferences.
- Select a Date/Time format from the drop-down list. The
Sample field shows how each format is displayed in the Event
Viewer:
- Short
M/d/yy, hh:mm a
= 7/10/15, 11:14 AM
- Medium
MMM d, yyyy, hh:mm:ss a
= Jul 10, 2015, 11:14:39 AM
- Long
MMMM d, yyyy 'at' hh:mm:ss a v
= July 10, 2015 at 11:15:40 AM
GMT
- Full
EEEE MMMM d, yyyy 'at' hh:mm:ss a v
= Friday, July 10, 2015 at
11:16:45 AM GMT
- Custom - select the custom option to tailor the Date/Time format in the
Pattern field. For example, you can customize the sequence of the date, year,
and time. See Permitted date and time formats for more
information about syntax and symbols.
The format is predefined for all Date/Time
formats, except Custom. The format depends on the browser setting for its
locale, where the Date/Time format for that locale is used.
If
English (United States) is used, the Short form for Date/Time
format is displayed as M/dd/yy h:mm a, for example: 12/11/00 2:15 AM. After
changing the language from English (United States) to English (United Kingdom) with
the on Windows operating systems, the
Date/Time format also changes to dd/MM/y HH:mm, for
example: 10/08/2020 14:07, with a 24 hour clock.
- Select the operatorTimezone from the drop-down list.
- Configure
Event Table
preferences.
- In the Events per request field, enter the number of event rows to return
per request. After you configure this preference, you have a wider area in the Event
Viewer to scroll through the Event
Viewer data with ease. Without this
configuration, when you scroll in the Event
Viewer you can encounter disruptive scrolling
due to regular load
REST
requests.
- A maximum value for the Events per request field might be configured by
the Administrator. To configure a maximum value for this field, the Administrator goes to the
WEBGUI_HOME/etc/system/userdefaults.props file and configures the property
value for
event_viewer_events_loaded_max:
. In the Events per
request field, if you enter a value that exceeds the maximum value that is configured by
the Administrator, then an error message is displayed.
- Select a refresh time in the Event
Viewer. Enter a value (seconds) for the
Refresh time in standalone mode field.
- Notifications
- Enable notifications for alerts in the event list.
- You must select Enable Notifications in
addition to your preferred notification method.
- Enable flashing in the Event
Viewer for
alerts where the Flash field in the alerts.status table has been set
to 1.
- Enable pop-up messages:
- On New Events: enable pop-up messages for
newly inserted events in the event list.
- On Modified Events: enable pop-up messages
for existing events being modified in the event list.
- On Deleted Events: enable pop-up messages
for events being deleted in the event list.
- Enable sound alerts:
- On New Events: enable sound notifications for newly inserted events in
the event list.
- On Modified Events: enable sound notifications for existing events being
modified in the event list.
- On Deleted Events: enable sound notifications for events being deleted in
the event list.
- Enable custom sound alerts for maximum severity notification of event list changes:
- Severity Level Sounds: enable customized severity-level sound
notifications for changes in the event list.
Depending on your selections for sound notification types, on refresh, you are alerted with
a custom sound notification specific to the maximum event severity associated with that particular
event list change. For a custom sound notification to be played when an event is new, modified, or
deleted, you must have enabled the relevant type of sound notification and you must have specified a
sound file for the relevant status severity.
Note:
The Sound drop-down list and the drop-down lists associated with the
Severity Level Sounds are populated with any files of type
.mp3, .wav, or .ogg which exist in
JazzSM_WAS_Profile/profile/installedApps/JazzSMNode01Cell/isc.ear/OMNIbusWebGUI.war/sounds. New files that are added will be presented to the
operator in the drop down list after the next restart of the Dashboard Application Services Hub.
Only file types which are supported on the operator's browser will be listed. The recommended
file type is mp3, as these are supported on all browsers.
- Click Apply to apply your changes
to the current Event
Viewer instance.
Click Apply & Save to apply changes to
the current instance and save the changes for all future instances.