OVNPM 1.5.2 - Performance Agent for NonStop Display Agent Guide

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5-10-2 Creating New Time Reference ............................................................................................. 50
5-10-3 Removing Time Reference.................................................................................................... 50
5-11 Sharing Dashboards........................................................................................................... 51
5-11-1 Sharing Dashboards with Other Computers ........................................................................... 51
5-11-2 Accessing Shared Dashboards............................................................................................. 52
5-12 User-Defined Dashboards.................................................................................................... 53
5-12-1 Saving Dashboard Configurations........................................................................................ 53
5-12-2 Printing User-Defined Dashboard Configurations .................................................................... 54
5-13 Masking and Redisplaying Predefined Dashboards ................................................................ 55
5-13-1 Masking Predefined Dashboards.......................................................................................... 55
5-13-2 Redisplaying Predefined Dashboards.................................................................................... 55
5-14 Printing from Dashboard ..................................................................................................... 56
5-14-1 Printing a View .................................................................................................................. 56
5-14-2 Printing Multiple Views ....................................................................................................... 57
5-14-3 Scheduling Automatic Dashboard Printing ............................................................................. 58
5-15 Closing Dashboards ........................................................................................................... 58
6 Using Views: SystemInsight
6-1 What is SystemInsight? ................................................................................................................. 59
6-2 Exploring Domains....................................................................................................................... 59
6-3 Opening a View.......................................................................................................................... 60
6-4 Selecting Units............................................................................................................................. 62
6-4-1 Temporarily Assigning Units to a Generic View...................................................................... 62
6-4-2 Permanently Assigning Units to a Generic View ..................................................................... 63
6-4-3 Identifying Units: Distributed OVNPM System......................................................................... 63
6-5 Using Metrics to Build Views ......................................................................................................... 64
6-5-1 Copying an Existing View ................................................................................................... 64
6-5-2 Adding Metrics to a User-Defined View................................................................................. 64
6-5-3 Adding a Metric to a View with Different Units....................................................................... 64
6-5-4 Replacing Metrics in a View ................................................................................................ 65
6-5-5 Removing Metrics from a View............................................................................................. 65
6-5-6 Creating a Customized View ............................................................................................... 66
6-5-7 Saving User-Defined Views and Metric Configurations ............................................................ 67
6-5-8 Printing User-Defined Views and Metric Configurations ........................................................... 68
6-6 Managing Information in Views ..................................................................................................... 69
6-6-1 Changing the Time Interval.................................................................................................. 69
6-6-2 Stopping and Starting the Display ........................................................................................ 69
6-7 Display Modes ............................................................................................................................ 70
6-7-1 Changing the Display Mode................................................................................................ 70
6-7-2 Curve Mode ......................................................................................................................71
6-7-3 Layer Mode....................................................................................................................... 72
6-7-4 Displaying Values for a Specific Interval................................................................................ 73
6-7-5 Plot Mode ......................................................................................................................... 74
6-7-6 Changing Metrics Used to Plot the Line at Any Time................................................................ 75
6-8 Displaying Values Independently.................................................................................................... 76
6-9 Customizing Appearance of Views.................................................................................................77
6-9-1 Applying Colors to Areas Between Curves............................................................................. 77
6-9-2 Setting a Background Pattern............................................................................................... 78
6-9-3 Hiding One or More Metrics ............................................................................................... 79
6-9-4 Setting a Marker ................................................................................................................81
6-9-5 Setting a High Mark for Gauges .......................................................................................... 82
6-9-6 Setting a Scale for the Display ............................................................................................. 83
6-10 Using Style Sheets..............................................................................................................84
6-10-1 Applying Style Sheets ......................................................................................................... 84
6-10-2 Creating a Style Sheet ........................................................................................................ 85
6-11 Viewing Recent-Past Data.................................................................................................... 86
6-11-1 Specifying Exact Time Reference for Recent-Past Data ............................................................. 86
6-11-2 Creating a Time Reference .................................................................................................. 87