ASAP 3.0 Client Manual

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State Determination
You can specify how the state of each attribute is determined when an attribute has its
Show in Graph property set. For more information, see StateRule - EDL Attribute
Property on page 153.
In ASAP, each data attribute has a state associated with it when the attribute has its
Show in Graph property set. ASAP assigns the state to that attribute based on the
State Determination Option for each attribute. If more than one attribute has its Show
in Graph property enabled for a given object, the attribute with the highest state is said
to be the state of the object. Thus each object can have a state associated with it.
When an object has a state associated with it, the graph for each object is color-coded
according to the state of the object, and the corresponding data value in the grid
portion of the ASAP Browse window is annotated with the state icon. The Browse
window lets you selectively display objects based on their states. To selectively display
objects in the browse window based on their states, select the States menu item from
the Browse window View menu. This table summarizes ASAP states and their
associated icons:
Icon
State
Description
Existence
Object exists.
Up or OK
Object is up or meets objectives.
Low
Object utilization is low.
Medium
Object utilization is medium.
High
Object utilization is high.
Warning
Object is at Warning level.
Critical
Object is at Critical level.
Down
Object is down or not operational.
Questionable
Object state is Questionable.
To customize object and state icons, use the Icon Server Control Panel. If you do, state icons in your ASAP
environment might appear different than shown here. For more information, see Icons Button on page 92.
State Determination ALL Button
The State Determination ALL button is an advanced feature that selects a range of
attributes from the first attribute that has a state attribute associated with it, through the
last attribute for the current entity.
This button lets you quickly select a range of attributes starting with the first attribute
that has a state associated with it, also known as a value,state StatePair. Once you
select these attributes using the ALL button, you can set the State Determination rule
for all StatePair attributes all at once, rather than individually.