ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

Using ASAP
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OSC Show Tips
To select all items in the OSC log for a given type of state change, click the state-
heading name in the scoreboard. For example, if you click the heading labeled Down,
all log items are selected that represent down state changes.
OSC Show Tips
Use the Show Tips function to show or hide tips that appear as you move your mouse
over elements of the scoreboard and state change log.
As you move your mouse over elements in the scoreboard, color-coded statistical tips
appear describing both the number of state changes, and the total number of objects in
a given state.
As you move your mouse over state change entries in the log, ASAP continuously
searches for other items in the log that match the object under the mouse. If more
items are in the log for the object under the mouse, a tip appears indicating the number
of times that object appears in the log. For example, if "17 x" appears as you move
your mouse over a log item, there are 17 items in the log for that object. You can use
this feature to quickly determine which objects occur frequently in the log. Another way
to do this is by sorting items in the log. You can sort items in the log by clicking log
headings. For example, to sort by object name, click the heading labeled Domain
Name.
OSC Show State Counts
Use the Show State Counts function to display or hide current object state counts in
the state change scoreboard.
Normally, only state change counts appear in the scoreboard. However, when Show
State Counts is enabled, the number of objects currently in each state also appears in
parentheses to the right of the number of state changes. If no state changes have
occurred, only the current object state count appears in parentheses.
For example, if (3) appears in the CPU Down cell of the scoreboard, no CPU state
changes occurred since you started your monitoring session. But the (3) indicates that
three CPUs are currently down. The implication is that these CPUs were already down
when you started monitoring, so these are less likely to be of interest. Cells that have
no state changes are not annotated with state icons. Typically you are less interested
in entity-state cells that do not represent state changes. As a result, only cells that
represent state changes are annotated with colored state icons.
When Show State Counts is enabled, and you click a cell in the scoreboard, the ASAP
Browse window displays all objects that have a state greater than or equal to the
selected state and entity. If you click a row icon in the scoreboard, all objects for that
entity type appear regardless of their state.