ViewPoint Manual

Using ViewPoint
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Managing Configuration
6. Press F3 to display the Primary Events screen.
7. Move the cursor to the option line and enter the subject you noted down from the
Last Events screen in Step 5.
8. Press F4 to display the Last Events screen by subject name. The display should be
the same as before, except for any new events issued since then.
9. Press F1 to display the TACL screen.
Managing Configuration
Configuration means the set of specifications that determine how status and events are
displayed at your terminal. Using various configurations, you can customize the
appearance and content of the information displayed on your status and events screens.
You manage configurations using the Configuration screens and the Profile screen in the
following ways:
ViewPoint provides these two default configuration files:
•
STATDFLT, for status configuration
•
EVNTDFLT, for event configuration
If you are managing applications, you can create other default files (for example,
ZZVPSTAT and ZZVPEVNT) on the default logon subvolume or, for ViewPoint
without TACL, on the PATHMON user ID logon default subvolume. If the
ZZVPSTAT and ZZVPEVNT files exist, ViewPoint uses these as the default
configuration files; otherwise, ViewPoint uses STATDFLT and EVNTDFLT.
The following procedures, “Creating Configuration Files” and “Choosing an Alternate
Configuration,” show how to use the Profile screen together with the configuration
screens to define and select alternate configurations.
Event or Status
Configuration Screen:
Specify alternate configurations as you did in previous
exercises when you changed how events are displayed (see
the subsection “Restricting the Events Displayed”) or when
you changed the threshold of a status item (see the
subsection “Changing the Item Threshold”). When you
enter changes to these configuration screens, the changes are
saved in a configuration file.
Profile Screen: To name the configuration files in which to save alternate
configurations.
Profile Screen: To select alternate configuration files.
Note. Note that only two configuration files are active at any time: one for events and the
other for status. However, you can create any number of other configuration files, each with an
alternate configuration. See the next subsection, “Creating Configuration Files.”