ASAP OpenView Smart Plug-In Manual

Configuring the ASAP OpenView Adapter
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Messaging Options
Automatic Message Acknowledgement
The state of a given object can change many times while it is being monitored. Each of
these state changes causes the Adapter to log a new message to OpenView. When
OpenView receives a message for an object that already has a message logged
against it, it can proceed in one of two ways:
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It can add the new message to the list of messages logged against the object.
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It can automatically acknowledge prior messages and display only the latest
message in the active Message Browser.
To configure this behavior, use the Acknowledge Messages Automatically check box
under OVO Messages on the OVO tab. To acknowledge automatically and thereby
display only the latest message for each object, select the check box. To allow
messages to accumulate for each object, clear the check box. You can still
acknowledge any of the messages manually via the OpenView Console.
The next example shows a sample of the contents of the Message Browser for the
object \Chicago\CPU\03 with automatic acknowledgement disabled. The result is the
history of messages for the object. In this scenario, the Services tree view reflects the
state of the most critical unacknowledged message for the object, not the latest
message:
Automatic acknowledgement is enabled by default.
Limiting the Number of Messages Logged
In some cases (for example, if an entire NonStop system is being taken off the
network), hundreds or thousands of ASAP-monitored objects can change state in an
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