Instruction Manual

OEM User’s Guide—520330-001
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OEM Windows
The OEM Server can display several different types of windows, each containing a
particular class of OEM data. These windows are created either in response to direct
user requests from OEM menus or as a result of callbacks from framework adapters. The
behavior of a given type of window is always the same, regardless of the reason for its
creation.
The following subsections describe each of these OEM window types:
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The Alerts Window on page 4-1
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The Max Alerts Window on page 4-6
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The Clients Window on page 4-11
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The Objects Window on page 4-15
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The Popups Window on page 4-21
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The Popup Navigation Window on page 4-26
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The Log Window on page 4-29
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The Statistics Window on page 4-34
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The Icons Window on page 4-38
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The Trace Window on page 4-39
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The About Window on page 4-40
The Alerts Window
The Alerts window serves as the main window of the OEM Server. It contains a list of
objects in the OEM database sorted by object state from highest to lowest. This gives
you an easy way to view, in priority order, the state of monitored objects in your
network.
By default, the Alerts window displays a list of all objects contained in the OEM
database. However, enterprise management frameworks can limit this list to a subset of
objects by supplying a filter string on Alerts callbacks. If such a filter is supplied, only
those objects that match it are displayed. For example, if an enterprise management
framework supplied the filter “\NewYork\DISK,” only disk drives on \NewYork would
be displayed in the Alerts window.
One object can have multiple entries in the OEM database if it is reported on by more
than one client application. Because these clients are, in most cases, reporting on
different properties of the object, the reported states could be different. In this situation,
the OEM shows all reported states for the object in the Alerts window. For example, if
client A reports object X with state 5, and client B reports it with state 3, both entries
would appear in the Alerts window. Only the highest state for X, however, is reported to
the enterprise management frameworks.