ViewPoint Manual

Customizing ViewPoint
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Custom Status Servers
to the Pathway SCREEN COBOL Reference Manual for instructions on using SEND to
an externally defined server class.
For information on how to add server classes to the Pathway application and on how to
configure a ZVPT-EXTRAS-DELETE program unit into the ViewPoint application,
refer to Section 7, Installation, Configuration, and Startup
.
Custom Status Servers
The Network Status Summary screen gives an overview of the status of the system or
network. As configured by Compaq, this screen displays summary information on
several types of objects: CPUs, disks, terminals, and data-communications lines. The
displays give two different kinds of information: counts (such as the number of units up
or down) and busy values (indicating that a unit is n percent busy over a measured
period of time). For count values, the count is used to calculate a percentage of the
configured count and this percentage is displayed graphically. For busy values, a unit-
busy percentage is retrieved (using Measure) and displayed.
A status item is a specified measurement of a particular type of object (or in some
cases, of a particular object of a given type, such as a particular CPU), either as a count
or a busy value. The standard status server provided with the ViewPoint application can
display the following status items:
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CPU busy
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Average CPU busy (within a system)
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Disk busy
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Line busy
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Count of Pathway terminals running (per Pathway system)
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Count of TMF transactions per second (obtained from TMFSERVE)
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Count of SNAX LUs started
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Count of SNAX PUs started
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Count of SNAX lines started
For the busy status items, the operator or system manager specifies the names of the
devices to be monitored using the Status Item Configuration screen.
A name, called a display type, is associated with each status item. Operators can read
the display types for status items on the Status Item Configuration screen.
Low and high thresholds can be configured for each item being measured. These
thresholds define a condition that causes the item to be highlighted on the screen for
emphasis. Each status item consists of a server name, a display type for that server, a
user name for the item, an optional 100 percent value, threshold values, and an option to
reverse the significance of the data received from the server. (For more information on
these capabilities of the Network Status Summary screen, refer to Section 3, Definition
of ViewPoint Screens.)