2.22.4 Preferences window (if the version of JP1/IM - Manager is 08-50 or earlier)

The following figure shows the Preferences window displayed if the version of JP1/IM - Manager is 08-50 or earlier.

Figure 2‒46: Preferences window

The following describes the items displayed in the Preferences window.

Automatic refresh

Specifies whether the information displayed on the Monitor Events and Severe Events pages is to be refreshed automatically.

Selecting Apply and specifying in seconds the refresh interval in the Interval text box enables automatic refresh. You can specify a value from 1 to 10,000 (seconds). The default is 5.

Selecting Do not apply disables automatic refresh.

Scroll buffer

Specifies the maximum number of events that can be displayed on the Monitor Events, Severe Events, and Search Events pages in the Event Console window.

You can specify a value from 10 to 2,000 (events). The default is 500.

In Web-based JP1/IM - View, the range of specifiable values is from 10 to 1,000, and the default is 100.

The Scroll buffer value must be greater than the Num. of events to acquire at update value and the Num. of events to acquire in 1 search value.

If the Scroll buffer value is too small, the pages might not be able to display all the JP1 events.

If the current value is increased, the change is applied the next time the window is refreshed, whether automatically or manually.

If the specified value is too large when JP1/IM - View is started, the Event Console window might take longer to appear.

Before setting the scroll buffer, the user must estimate the amount of required memory for Central Console - View, and must check the amount of free space on the machine resource. For details about the formula for estimating the amount of required memory, see the Release Notes for JP1/IM - View.

Num. of events to acquire at update

Specifies the number of events that can be acquired from the event console service in one refresh operation for the Event Console window. A refresh operation is performed at the interval specified in the Automatic refresh area of the Preferences window, or whenever the user chooses View and then Refresh in the Event Console window.

When automatic refresh is enabled, refresh operations are repeated until no JP1 events remain in the event buffer of the event console service.

The range of specifiable values is from 1 to 200. The default is 20.

The Num. of events to acquire at update value must be smaller than the Scroll buffer value.

Num. of events to acquire in 1 search

Specifies the number of events that can be acquired in one event search operation.

The range of specifiable values is from 1 to 2,000. The default is 20.

In Web-based JP1/IM - View, the range of specifiable values is from 1 to 1,000, and the default is 20.

The Num. of events to acquire in 1 search value must be smaller than the Scroll buffer value.

Display items & order

Specifies the items that are to be displayed in the event list of the Event Console window.

The Display items & order list box displays the items that are displayed in the event list. The Available items list box displays the items that are not displayed in the event list. The items in the list boxes can be moved back and forth by using the -> and <- buttons.

The items in the event list are displayed in the same order used to display the items in the Display items & order list box. The user can change the display order of an item by selecting the item in the Display items & order list box and then clicking the Up or Down button.

In the Preferences window, the user can specify the display settings for the following items:

Event level, Registered time, Source host, User name, Message, Object type, Event ID, Start time, End time, Product name, Object name, Root object type, Root object name, Arrived time, Action, Occurrence, Serial number, Source process ID, Source user ID, Source group ID, Source user name, Source group name, Source serial number, Type, Action type, Original Severity Level^#1, New Severity Level^#1, and Memo^#2

#1: Items that the user can set if the function for changing the severity level is enabled when the integrated monitoring database is used.

#2: An item that the user can set if the function for setting memo entries is enabled when the integrated monitoring database is used.

Note that in the Event Console window and Related Events window, the event status is always displayed as the first item in the event list, regardless of the settings in the Preferences window.

Also note that if the function for displaying consolidated repeated events (Display most significant status) is enabled, the Summary Status column is displayed to the right of the Event status column. If this function is disabled, the Summary Status column continues to be displayed until the user logs in again.

Column width

Specifies whether to save the column width of each item displayed in the event list of each page of the Event Console window when the user logs out from JP1/IM - View.

The column width of each item displayed in the event list can be changed by dragging. A change in a column width on one page (for example, Monitor Events) is applied to the other two pages (for example, Severe Events and Search Events). When the Save the status of the window when closing check box is selected, the column width status is saved when the user logs out.

Coloring

Specifies whether to add background colors to specific events displayed on the Monitor Events and Search Events pages of the Event Console window. Background colors can be added to events that have the severity levels Emergency, Alert, Critical, Error, and Warning.

When the Enable check box is selected, background colors are added.

For details about background colors, see 2.1 Overview of the Event Console window.

Display most significant status

Specifies whether to create a consolidated display of repeated events.

Clicking the OK button in the Preferences window completes the consolidation of events being consolidated.

Enable

When this check box is selected, repeated events are consolidated. Consolidation is enabled for the events received after the settings in the Preferences window are applied. The events received before the settings are applied are not consolidated.

By default, this check box is not selected.

Timeout time

Specifies the number of seconds used as the timeout value for consolidating repeated events. The range of specifiable values is from 1 to 3,600. The default is 60.

When the difference between the arrival time of a consolidation start event and the arrival times of received events reaches the timeout value, the consolidation is completed.

Specified display event period

Specifies whether to use the function for displaying events that occurred during a specified period.

Display: When this check box is selected, events occurring during the specified period are displayed. If this check box is selected, the Use specified display event period check box appears on the Monitor Events page and the Severe Events page.
Base time: Specifies a time for displaying JP1 events. As the hour, you can specify a value from 00 to 23. The default value is 09 hours. As the minutes, you can specify a value from 00 to 59. The default value is 00 minutes.
Display period: Specifies a period for displaying JP1 events. You can specify a value from 1 to 31 (days). The default is 1 day.

Lines of execution results to display

Specifies the maximum number of lines available for displaying execution results in the Execute Command window.

The range of specifiable values is from 100 to 10,000. The default is 100.

In Web-based JP1/IM - View, this area is disabled.

This area is enabled only when the logged-in user has JP1_Console_Admin permission or JP1_Console_Operator permission.

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