Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Quick Reference

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1.4.1 Learning how to use Central Scope

To visually monitor events that are issued in a system, system administrators use a component called Central Scope. Central Scope is a component provided by JP1/IM - Manager to capture events issued in a system based on a logical perspective for the purpose of facilitating management of system operations.

With Central Scope, you can display events that match your monitoring objectives in tree format, or you can display in map format only those points that require monitoring.

Prerequisite conditions:
  • A Central Scope database has been created using the jcsdbsetup command.
  • Central Scope Service is enabled (jcoimdef -s ON).

Let's configure Central Scope so that it monitors the system you set up in 1.1 Setting up a basic system, and so that the status of the monitoring node changes when an event of severity level Warning is received from host A.

The following subsections explain separately how to set up a tree format and a map format.

Organization of this subsection
(1) Setting up a tree format
(2) Setting the properties of the monitoring nodes
(3) Setting up a map format

(1) Setting up a tree format

To display events in tree format, you add a monitoring node. To add a monitoring node, you work in the Create New Monitoring Node window.

To display the window:
To display the Create New Monitoring Node window, in the Monitoring Tree (Editing) window, choose Edit, and then Create New Monitoring Node.
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(2) Setting the properties of the monitoring nodes

By setting the properties of the monitoring nodes, you can do things such as change the icon used by a monitoring node, or change the status of a monitoring node when an event is received. You set the properties of monitoring nodes in the Properties window.

To display the window:
To display the Properties window, select the monitoring node, right-click, and then choose Properties in the pop-up menu that appears.

The Properties window for host A opens. Select the Status-Change Conditions tab, and then click the Add button.

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(3) Setting up a map format

To display hosts in a map format, you first create a Visual Monitoring window. You configure the Visual Monitoring window from the Visual Monitoring (Editing) window.

To display the window:
To display the Visual Monitoring (Editing) window, in the Visual Tree (Editing) window, choose Edit, and then Create New Visual Monitoring Window.
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[Figure]References:
  • See 5.3.1 Opening the Monitoring Tree (Editing) window in the Configuration Guide.
  • See 5.3.3 Generating a monitoring tree automatically in the Configuration Guide.
  • See 5.4.1 Opening an edit window for the Visual Monitoring window in the Configuration Guide.
  • See 5.4.3 Customizing a Visual Monitoring window in the Configuration Guide.
  • See jcsdbsetup in Chapter 1 of the manual Command and Definition File Reference.
  • See jcoimdef in Chapter 1 of the manual Command and Definition File Reference.

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