Display Options of the Alert Monitor 

Use

The display options combine the settings that determine which data is displayed in the various displays and views of the Alert Monitor. You can also determine whether and with what frequency the display should be refreshed.

Features

Monitor-Specific Settings of the Display Options

·        Refreshing the Monitor Display

If automatic refreshing is activated, the Alert Monitor updates the display with the information currently available in the monitoring system. The refreshes are performed at the intervals that you define in the display options. The alert monitoring tree is not rebuilt during a refresh; rather, the existing MTEs are updated with the currently available information. We recommend that you choose a refresh time of at least 300 seconds.

You can also manually update the Alert Monitor by choose the Refresh pushbutton (), or by performing other operations that trigger a refresh, such as exiting the Alert Browser, or switching from the Open Alerts view to Current Status.

·        Detail Display Settings

You can determine which data is displayed in the detail display (see Display Detail Data and Tailor Display).

Global Settings of the Display Options

·        Displaying Error Nodes

You can determine whether the Alert Monitor display should contain MTEs that are not currently functioning. Possible reasons for this are:

¡        A monitoring segment has been set to offline, that is, the collection of information from the monitoring segment has been deactivated.

¡        An error occurred when communicating with the remote server on which the monitoring segment is located. Data from this segment could not be collected.

¡        The remote server on which the monitoring segment is located was shut down. Data from this segment could not be collected.

If you display error nodes of this type, these nodes are indicated by a symbol () displayed after the node.

·        Displaying the Current Measured Values

You can determine whether the most recent relevant value is displayed in the Current Status view, or whether you simply want to be informed about the current status of the node by its color.

·        Displaying the Alert-Details

You can determine whether the message text for the alert is displayed in the Open Alerts view; you can also define in superordinate nodes whether the alert text or the source of the alert is displayed.

Activities

To set the display options in the Alert Monitor, follow the procedure below:

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       1.      Choose CCMS ® Control/Monitoring ® Alert Monitor, or call transaction RZ20.

       2.      Expand the monitor set that contains the monitor that you require, and choose Load Monitor.

       3.      Choose Extras ® Display Options.

       4.      Depending on which options you want to set, switch to the appropriate tab page:

Function	Tab Page
Refreshing the Monitor Display	General
Detail Display Settings	Tree Display
Displaying Error Nodes
Displaying the Current Measured Values
Displaying the Alert-Details	Detail Data Display

       5.      Make your settings and confirm your changes.