ASAP OpenView Smart Plug-In Manual

Configuring the ASAP OpenView Adapter
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Service Population Scheme
the services Chicago, Chicago\CPU, and Chicago\Spooler to OpenView if you
have specified a depth of 2:
The Adapter can add levels of detail only if such data exists. Therefore, if you
specify a depth of 4, for example, the Chicago\CPU hierarchy would still only
extend 3 levels (Chicago\CPU\00, Chicago\CPU\01, and so on) because no
objects are defined under the individual CPUs.
The Services Tree View and OpenView Messages
It is important to distinguish between the OpenView Services tree view and the
messages logged to OpenView by the ASAP OpenView Adapter. The main purpose of
the Services tree view is to categorize services and make it easier for you to
determine, to whatever level you have configured, the state of the various services that
make up your network of systems. The more levels of service detail you add to the tree
view, the better you can determine where problems exist in your network and the more
quickly you can view messages related to those services.
However, the content of the Services tree view has virtually no impact on the content of
the messages that the Adapter logs to OpenView. The Adapter always logs messages
against the actual low-level object that reported an error. The Object column in the
OpenView Message Browser always contains the name of the specific object that
caused that message to be generated, regardless of the level of detail in the Services
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