ViewPoint Manual

Introduction to ViewPoint
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Customizing ViewPoint
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Add custom event-message text to display messages on the Event Detail screen that
reflect your own operation policies and procedures. You do this by adding text to
the event-detail database with the ENABLE application generator.
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Write custom filters that determine what events are displayed on ViewPoint events
screens—for instance, you could specify as critical events those events that
ViewPoint does not normally consider critical. You do this with the Event
Management Service (EMS) filter language.
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Add objects to the status screens and write custom server processes to provide status
items not provided by ViewPoint. You do this by writing a server process in a
programming language accepted by Pathway and then integrating the server into the
ViewPoint application.
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Add custom commands to perform specific functions such as starting a large number
of terminals or communications lines. You do this by writing TACL routines or
macros.
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Add custom screens that the ViewPoint operator can request through the Extras
screen. You do this by writing a Screen COBOL program unit for execution by
Pathway.
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Alter the prefix text that is displayed for individual events on the events screens.
You do this by setting the EVENT-PREFIX server parameter.
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Determine the options for recovering events that take effect after there is a CPU
failure or ViewPoint is shut down.
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Configure ViewPoint to run with the DSM/Problem Manager (DSM/PM) product.
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Install ViewPoint as part of the Integrated Operations Console (IOC) product set.
IOC consists of the following products: NetCommand, NetStatus, DSM/PM, and
ViewPoint.
For more details on altering ViewPoint, see Section 6, Customizing ViewPoint
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