ASAP 3.0 Client Manual

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portion is the actual value of the performance attribute. The state portion is the entity
agent’s state determination objective associated with the metric. When you select the
Use State Graph State option, the state value is graphed and used to determine the
state of the metric.
When you choose this option, although the value of the state is graphed, the actual
metric value appears in all numeric fields such as the grid portion of the Browse
window, pop-up captions in the graph, and the OEM context fields. This option is
useful if you want the relative size of graph elements to indicate alert levels. For
example, larger graph elements can indicate larger or higher alert levels.
You can use this option in several ways:
It lets system and application entities associate host-defined availability objectives
with metrics, and see a graphical representation of these states in the ASAP
Client, the OEM/OIL, and any OEM adapter-enabled Enterprise Management
framework.
It can display the state of an attribute as determined by the ASAP RANK
command. When you specify Use State Graph State, the state of the attribute is
determined by the RANK command. All StatePair attributes for entities such as
App, CPU, Disk, Expand, File, Node, Process, Processbusy, RDF, Spooler,
System, Tape, and TMF can have availability objectives defined using the ASAP
RANK command.
It is used for System entities that have a Status attribute representing the
operational state of the object. Each Status attribute has a state named Op
associated with it. The value of Op represents the numeric state of the object; for
example, 2 (up), 6 (warning), 7 (critical), and 8 (down). When the Status attribute is
graphed and the Use State Graph State option is chosen, the operational state of
the object is graphed and that state icon appears next to the Status attribute in the
data grid.
Entity Property Sheet
Use the Entity property sheet to control which entities have their availability information
analyzed. The ASAP Client automatically retrieves the selected entities from your host
systems for real-time analysis and display.
The list of entities that appears in the Entity property sheet is determined by the
entities defined in the Entity Definition Language (EDL) file. For more information about
adding entities, see Section 6: Entity Definition Language (EDL).
You do not need to enable all of the entities on the Entity property sheet to obtain
context-sensitive menu reports about these entities. This dialog controls which entities
are retrieved from the host and displayed in various grids and graphs. Try setting only
one entity, such as the CPU entity, to see if this setting provides enough data.