Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Overview and System Design Guide

3.1.1 Monitoring from the Central Console

The Central Console centrally manages the JP1 events occurring on the agents by extracting the events that need to be dealt with, and then forwarding them to a manager.

Figure 3-2 Overview of JP1 event monitoring from the Central Console

JP1 events are displayed in a time series in the Event Console window. The window has three pages, which you can display as required by clicking the appropriate tab. In some cases, JP1 events might be selected by the filtering function during the pre-processing for display in JP1/IM - View. This is explained below in 3.2 Filtering of JP1 events.

JP1 events might also be summarized by the function for consolidating repeated events during the pre-processing for display in JP1/IM - View. This is explained in 3.4 Consolidated display of repeated events.

Monitor Events page

The Monitor Events page lists JP1 events in the order in which they occur. Use this page to view events generated in the system in a time series.

The JP1 events listed in the Monitor Events page are those passed from the event service to the event base service, and then to the event console service.

The Monitor Events page has a view filter, which can be used to filter the displayed events.

When a large number of identical events occur in a short space of time, they can be summarized on the Monitor Events page using the function for consolidating repeated events.

Severe Events page

The Severe Events page lists only those JP1 events considered to be severe events.

A severe event is a JP1 event that needs to be addressed, such as a failure of some sort. By default, JP1 events whose event level is Emergency, Alert, Critical, or Error are defined as severe events.

When a severe event occurs, the alarm lamp in JP1/IM - View flashes to inform the user.

When a large number of identical events occur in a short space of time, they can be summarized on the Severe Events page using the function for consolidating repeated events.

Search Events page

The Search Events page displays the results of an event search conducted on a host from JP1/IM - View.

Because only severe events are forwarded to a manager, you must perform an event search if you want to view normal JP1 events. For example, you can use the Search Events page to retrieve events immediately before and after a JP1 event indicating a problem when you want to find out what was happening at the time.

You can also use the Search Events page to view old events that have disappeared from the JP1/IM - View buffer.

For an overview, see 3.5 Searching for events.

You can perform the following operations and settings on the JP1 events listed in the three pages of the Event Console window:

• Specify a start time for listing JP1 events
  When you use the integrated monitoring database, you can change the JP1 events listed in the Event Console window of JP1/IM - View by specifying a date and time or by moving the slider in the event display start-time specification area. This allows you to see JP1 events when the maximum number of viewable events (JP1/IM - View's scroll buffer size) has been exceeded and there are too many events to fit into the Event Console window all at once.
  The event display start-time specification area does not appear in the Search Events page.
  
• View JP1 event details
  You can view detailed attribute information about JP1 events. You can also view operating advice, such as troubleshooting procedures, if event guide information has been preset for a selected JP1 event. When you use the integrated monitoring database, you can set and display memos by enabling the function for entering memos in JP1 events. When a memo has been set, the icon appears to the left of the listed event.
  
• Specify a period for listing JP1 events
  Using the event display period specification, you can set a base time and a period of days for listing events. For example, suppose the current time is 9:15 am on July 8, and you set the display period as follows:
  
  • Base time
    09:00
    
  • Display period
    2 days
    
  With this setting, the listing will cover JP1 events that have occurred since 9:00 am on the previous day (July 7).
  
• Launch linked applications by monitor startup
  You can launch the GUI of a linked product associated with a selected JP1 event.
  
• View the execution results of automated actions
  You can view the execution result of an automated action executed in response to a JP1 event.
  The execution results of automated actions cannot be displayed in the Search Events page.
  
• Change the display items for JP1 events
  The following information can be displayed as JP1 event information in the Event Console window:
  

  Items displayed by default:

  Event level, Registered time, Source host, User name, Event ID, Message, Object type, and Action.

  Items not displayed by default:

  Start time, End time, Product name, Object name, Root object type, Root object name, Arrived time, Occurrence, Serial number, Source process ID, Source user ID, Source group ID, Source user name, Source group name, Source serial number, Type, and Action type.

  When you use the integrated monitoring database, Original severity level, New severity level, and Memo are not displayed by default in addition to the above items.

  You can change the display items and their order to suit your purpose.
  In addition to the above display items, icons representing the event status and the presence of an event memo are displayed in JP1 event listings. These icons appear in front of the event name in the Event Console window. The memo icon does not appear unless you are using the integrated monitoring database.
  Event-specific information and other information not covered by the above display items can be displayed in the Event Console window by mapping the event-specific information to one of the above display items.
  In this case, # is prefixed to the displayed information.
  
• Change the severity of JP1 events
  When you use the integrated monitoring database, you can change the severity or event level of monitored JP1 events. This allows you to manage JP1 events in accordance with your system's operating environment. The event level can be changed to Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, Warning, Information, Notice, or Debug. You can change the event level for the following functions and monitor the system according to the new setting:
  
  • JP1 event filtering (event receiver filter, severe events filter, and view filter)
  • Correlation events
  • Event search
  • Event guide
  • Automated actions
  • Output of event report
  • Central Scope
  For example, the various JP1 events issued by a particular host can be set to the same event level, or a particular JP1 event whose severity is treated differently on different hosts can be set to the same event level on each.
  

  Figure 3-3 Changing the event level of all JP1 events issued by host A to "Emergency"

  

  To change an event level, use the jcoimdef command. For details, see 4.9 Setting the severity changing function in the Job Management Partner 1/Integrated Management - Manager Configuration Guide.
  
• Set the response status of JP1 events
  You can set the response status of JP1 events. Any of the following four statuses can be set, according to how events are processed and the action already taken: Processed, Processing, Held, and Unprocessed. You can check the settings in the Monitor Events page, Severe Events page, or Search Events page. The response status is represented by an icon.
  The response statuses that can be set and displayed differ for each page, as shown in the following table.
  

  Table 3-2 Differences in response status settings among pages in the Event Console window

  Page	Specifiable response statuses	Number of events whose response status can be set in one operation	Update of other pages when response status changes#2
  Monitor Events	Processed, Processing, Held, Unprocessed	Multiple	Automatically updated
  Severe Events	Processed, Processing, Held, Unprocessed, Delete#1	Multiple	Automatically updated
  Search Events	Processed, Processing, Held, Unprocessed	Multiple	After next search

  #1: When Delete is set for a JP1 event on the Severe Events page, that JP1 event is no longer listed on the page. However, because events deleted on this page are not erased from the event database or integrated monitoring database, they might still appear on other pages and, if so, their response status can still be set.

  #2: When a response status is set on another page, the Monitor Events page or Severe Events page is automatically updated to reflect the changed status (provided the Apply check box is selected for Automatic refresh in the Preferences window). Otherwise, you can update the response status in the Monitor Events page and Severe Events page by choosing View and then Refresh, or by clicking the Refresh button. To refresh the Search Events page, you must perform another search.

  You can also set the response status in the Related Events window, which opens from the Event Console window. You can set and display the same statuses as on the page from which you opened the Related Events window.

  You can also generate a JP1 event whenever a response status changes. This allows you to record a history of the actions taken.

  
  
• Highlighting
  You can apply a background color to the JP1 events displayed in the Event Console window (the default is no highlighting). When you enable Coloring, highlighting is applied on each page as follows:
  
  • Monitor Events page: Highlight according to the event level.
  • Severe Events page: No highlighting.
  • Search Events page: Highlight according to the event level.
  When you use the integrated monitoring database, events are highlighted according the user-defined event level.
  

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