ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

Using ASAP
HP NonStop ASAP Client Manual—425263-004
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Sort View Toolbar Button
You can exchange EDL files between different copies of the ASAP Client. Thus, you
can copy a saved EDL file to another workstation so others can see the information
displayed in your ASAP environment.
To view information contained in an EDL file, double-click the EDL file from Microsoft
Explorer. For more information on EDL, see Section 6, Entity Definition Language
(EDL).
Sort View Toolbar Button
Use the Sort View toolbar button to obtain sorted views of ASAP performance
information. In Sort View, you can sort nodes, entities, objects, and their property
attribute values by clicking a heading for that attribute column.
Normally ASAP displays Browse window information in Grid View. You can tell which
mode you are in because the word Grid or Sort always appears in the upper-right
corner of the Browse window data area. In Sort View, to obtain sorted reports, click on
column headings. In Grid View, right-click to display pop-up menus containing context-
sensitive reports on selected objects.
To toggle between the Sort and Grid views, click the Sort ListView toolbar button. You
can toggle Sort View on and off by clicking on Grid or Sort in the upper-right corner of
the Browse window.
Use Sort View to determine which nodes, entities, and objects in your NonStop server
network are the most or least busy. To do so, select Sort View and the All Nodes
toolbar buttons. You can then display the most or least used node-entity attributes by
clicking attribute column headings.
Command Wizard Toolbar Button
Use the Command Wizard to obtain detailed host reports:
1. Click the Command Wizard button labeled with the Binoculars icon.
2. From the Command To Execute drop-down list, choose the command to execute.
3. From the Node drop-down list, change the node.
4. From the Font drop-down list, specify the font.
5. Use the Log command to display a list of recent performance monitor host log
events for the specified node.
6. Use the Status Monitor command to display the status of the ASAP subsystems
on the specified node.
7. Click the Save As toolbar button on the Command Wizard window to save the
contents of the window to disk.