Use this window to configure settings for the Accelerated
Event Notification client.
The
Accelerated Event Notifier Properties window
contains the following tabs:
Application tab
Use
this tab to configure the ObjectServer from which you want to receive
accelerated event notifications, and the event list where you want
to manage these events. You can also specify a Web browser for displaying
online help.
Note: It is your responsibility to check
the availability of any servers that you specify. In addition, if
you want to view and manage events by using the Active Event List,
the Web GUI must
be configured and running.
Complete the tab as follows:
- Notification Settings
- Use these fields to specify whether operators can view additional
details for accelerated events in the desktop event list or the Web GUI Active
Event List. Based on your selection, operators can use one or the
other of these event lists to manage accelerated events.
- Server
- Select the name of the ObjectServer from which accelerated event
notifications should be received. This list is populated with ObjectServer
entries from the Server Editor.
Note: In a failover configuration,
connection to the name of a virtual pair is not supported. You must
select either the (primary) or (backup) server
name.
- View In
- Select Netcool Event list to
use the desktop event list to manage accelerated events. Select Web GUI to
use the Active Event List to manage accelerated events.
- Launch In Context Settings: Netcool Event list tab
- If you selected the Netcool Event list option
in the Notification Settings area, you must
use this tab to configure connection settings, and views, for the
event list. Complete this tab as follows:
- Server
- Select the ObjectServer from which accelerated event notifications
are received. This list is populated with ObjectServer entries from
the Server Editor.
- View
- Specify the view that you want to apply to the event list. Either
type the path to the .elv file, or click the
ellipses (...) button to navigate to the .elv file.
- Launch In Context Settings: Web GUI tab
- If you selected the Web GUI option
in the Notification Settings area, you must
use this tab to configure connection settings, and views, for the
Active Event List. Complete this tab as follows:
- Server
- Type the host name or IP address of the Web GUI server.
The host name can be a short name or a fully-qualified name.
- If you type an IP address, you can specify an IPv4 or IPv6 address
for the server. For IPv6 addresses, use brackets [] as delimiters.
For example, for a literal IPv6 address of FEDC:BA12:3456:7890:FEDC:BA12:3456:7890,
type:
- [FEDC:BA12:3456:7890:FEDC:BA12:3456:7890]
- Port
- Specify the port number on which the Web GUI server
listens. The range is from 1 to 65536.
- SSL
- Select this check box to specify that page requests to the Web GUI server
should be made by using the Hypertext Transfer Protocol over Secure
Socket Layer (HTTPS).
- Version
- Specify the Web GUI server
version.
- View
- Type the name of a view within the Web GUI server,
which must be applied to the Active Event List.
- Browser Settings
- Use this area to specify a Web browser for displaying online help.
- Application
- Either type the path to the executable file, or click the ellipses
(...) button to navigate to the file. If you manually type a path
to the file name, the system checks whether it is valid.
- If you do not specify a browser for Windows, the default Windows
browser is automatically used. On UNIX, you are prompted that you
need to specify a browser.
Messages tab
Use
this tab to configure settings for the history buffer and the pop-up
notifier. Complete this tab as follows:
- History Settings
- Inbound event notifications are stored in a history buffer, which
is automatically cleared at the end of each application session. You
can view this information in the Historical Data Viewer window.
Use these fields to configure the size of the history buffer.
- Remove Messages Older Than
- Specify how long messages should remain in the history buffer
before being automatically removed. The range is from 0 to 10080 minutes.
(10080 minutes equates to the number of minutes in a week.) A value
of 0 indicates that this field is to be ignored, in which case the
automatic removal of messages from the history buffer is controlled
by the value of the Number of Messages to Keep field.
- Number of Messages to Keep
- Specify the maximum number of messages that the history buffer
can store during a session. When this maximum number is attained,
the oldest message will be removed to make way for a new incoming
message. The number of messages can range from 1 to 1000.
Note: If you reduce the size of the history buffer
during the current session, the oldest messages that are over and
above the new limit are lost.
- Clear History
- Click this button to clear the history buffer. This action causes
all the information in the Historical Data Viewer window
to be deleted.
- Pop-up Settings
- Accelerated events are displayed using pop-up notifiers. Use these
fields to configure the number and behavior of the pop-up notifiers
that are visible on the screen.
- Display No More Than
- Specify the maximum number of pop-up notifiers that can be visible
on the screen at any time. The range is from 1 to 10. If the maximum
number of pop-up notifiers is currently visible on the screen and
another notification is received, the oldest event is removed from
the stack of pop-up notifiers, and replaced with the new event. Intermediate
alerts are repositioned to maintain the order in which they were received.
- Popups Expire After
- Specify how long a pop-up notifier remains on the screen before
it is automatically removed from the screen. The range is from 0 to
10 minutes. (You can also manually close pop-up notifiers.)
- Custom Settings: Visual tab
- Use these fields to specify whether to include details of the
channel name and the ObjectServer from which notifications are received,
within the pop-up notifier. You can also specify the point of insertion
of new pop-up notifiers.
- Display Channel Name
- Select this check box to add the name of the channel on which
an accelerated event notification was broadcast.
- Display Server Name
- Select this check box to add the name of the ObjectServer that
forwarded the notification to the Accelerated Event Notification client.
- Insert New Messages At The
- Select Top if you want new pop-up notifiers
to be added at the top of the pop-up stack. Select Bottom if
you want new pop-up notifiers to be added at the bottom of the pop-up
stack. This setting also controls the insertion point for entries
in the history buffer and consequently, the Historical Data
Viewer window.
- Custom Settings: System tab
- Use this tab to configure settings for data retention, logging,
and sound.
- Maintain History
- Select this check box if you want to save the contents of the
history buffer when you sign out or exit. When you sign in again,
saved historical data that falls within the specified expiration limits
for notifications can be viewed in the Historical Data Viewer window.
Clear this check box (the default) if you do not want the contents
of the history buffer to be reloaded when you next sign in.
- Log Notifications
- Select this check box to save the notification details to text
log files that are maintained in your userhome/.netcool/nco_aen_settings/logs directory
on UNIX, where userhome represents your home directory.
On Windows, these files are stored in userhome\.netcool\nco_aen_settings\logs.
- Play Sound
- Select this check box to play an audio sound whenever notifications
are received. The sound is muted by default if multiple notifications
are received in rapid succession. Clear this check box (the default)
to stop the sound from playing. Note that you cannot change the sound,
and the workstation must have the relevant hardware for playing sounds.
- Default Settings
- Click this button to restore the default settings.
Channels tab
Use
this tab to specify which of the defined channel columns are shown
in the pop-up notifier, and the position of the data in the pop-up
notifier. Complete this tab as follows:
- Channel list
- This list shows all the channels over which you can receive accelerated
event notifications. These channels are created by your system administrator,
who also grants access rights to channels. From this list, select
a channel that you want to configure. The columns configured for the
channel, and their position within the pop-up notifier, are shown
to the right.
Note: Click-across functionality to the event
list or the Active Event List is available only for events in the
alerts.status table.
- Column data
- Each column that is configured for the selected channel is listed
here.
- Filter
- Use these check boxes to construct a dynamic AND logic filter
for the event list or Active Event List that is accessible from the
pop-up notifier and the Historical Data Viewer window.
Select the Filter check box for each column
on which you want to filter.
- Position in Popup
- Use these fields to reposition column data within the pop-up notifier
and the Historical Data Viewer window.
- Default Positions
- Click this button to reset the channel columns to their default
position in the pop-up notifier.
About tab
This
tab displays the name and version of the product, together with copyright
and trademark information.
Saving your property
settings
After configuring properties for the Accelerated
Event Notification client, you can save or cancel the changes made
by clicking the relevant button as follows:
- OK
- Click this button to save the property settings and close the
window.
- Cancel
- Click this button to close the window without saving your changes.