User Guide

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Cisco AlarmTracker Client User Guide
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Performance Tips
Overview
The AlarmTracker product is a full-featured tool which sorts a large amount of
Listener Event data and attempts to present it to the user in an organized way.
There are many product options that allow you customize the look and feel of
AlarmTracker, and there are many filtering options to allow you to see only what
you want to see.
Because AlarmTracker is a full-featured tool, and because it processes so much
data, there can be some issues that affect performance. It is not a light-weight
application. For example, the Cisco TAC supports over 150 Customers and
receives on the order of 120,000 Events per day. There are over 40,000 node
objects whose state needs to be maintained and managed by the AlarmTracker
application. The management of these node objects requires memory, and the
processing of Listener Events on the client side requires CPU power.
This section describes some suggestions you can use to maximize the
performance you get from your AlarmTracker application. For each suggestion,
the pluses and minuses of each suggestion will be discussed.
Using the EventsBar
The EventsBar can be used to display a console-like stream of Events received
from the LGMapper. You can create multiple tabs and filter the stream in many
ways.