ViewPoint Manual

Using ViewPoint
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Creating Configuration Files
Creating Configuration Files
You can create any number of configuration files, each with an alternate configuration.
Having a set of configuration files allows you to switch easily from one configuration to
another.
In the following steps, you create a new configuration file for the Network Status
Summary screen and a new configuration file for the Alternate Events screen.
To create the new configuration files, follow these steps:
1. Press F1 to display the TACL screen, if it is not already selected.
2. Press F14 to display the Profile screen. This screen displays the names of the
current event configuration and status configuration files, probably the default file
names STATDFLT and EVNTDFLT (although they might be ZZVPSTAT and
ZZVPEVNT). These names are qualified by the names of your current system,
volume, and subvolume.
3. Change the name of the status configuration file to a new name, such as MYSTAT.
(Like all file names, it must be 8 characters or less.)
4. Press F14 to make the name change.
5. Press F14 again to create the new configuration file, MYSTAT. This is a new
configuration file, so ViewPoint asks you to press F14 again in order to create the
file.
6. Specify the status configuration to be associated with MYSTAT. To do this, you
must add the items whose status you want to display.
a. Press F2 to display the Network Status Summary screen. Notice that the screen
header now shows MYSTAT as the Status File, but that there are no status items
displayed on the screen. You can now add the status items you want displayed
when you use MYSTAT as your configuration file.
b. Press F7 to add a status item. When you press F7, ViewPoint immediately
displays a Status Item Configuration screen on which all fields are blank so you
can add new items. Rather than entering item information on a blank screen,
you can scan through templates of possible display types (such as CPU-BUSY
and DISK-BUSY). When you find the type you want to add, all you need do is
enter specific information in the template.
c. Press F13 to request the first display type, which is CPU-BUSY.
d. Press SF13 to scan the display types. Keep pressing SF13 until the screen
shows the template for DISK-BUSY. To see the status of the $SYSTEM disk,
Caution. Be careful when making changes to existing configuration files, particularly ones that
you do not want altered; for example, the default files provided with your application.
Whenever you change a configuration on one of the configuration screens, this change is
immediately recorded in whichever configuration file is currently active. To make sure you do
not alter an existing configuration file, create a new configuration first and then make your
changes as described below.