User's Manual

Active System Manager User Interface Elements
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Figure 1-15 Preferences Dialog Box (Default)
Table 1-8 describes the parameters you can configure for your user preferences, by preference type. The
last column provides a figure reference, where you can view the dialog box and read how to configure the
preference type setting.
Table 1-8 Preference Types—Configurable Parameters
Preference Type Configurable Parameters and Description Reference
Archive Bin Filters & Filter Rules—Defines the filters and filter rules Active System Manager
applies to templates and sessions to be moved into the Archive Bin.
Figure 1-15
Connectivity Driver Definitions—Allows you to add, edit, remove, or copy available driver
definitions.
Note: Used for BIRT reports only.
For more information about setting up connectivity, see Chapter 9, “Repository
Management,” and Chapter 10, “Network Management.”
BIRT documentation
Resource
Discovery
Allows you to select the domains to be used by the Discovery Engine. Chapter 5, “Inventory
Management”
General • Always run in background—The Active System Manager software performs
specific actions in the background without disturbing the user.
• Keep next/previous editor view and perspectives dialog open—Keeps the
editor and view cycle dialog boxes open when their activation key is released. (In
normal conditions, dialog boxes close as soon as the key combination is released.)
• Show Heap Status—Displays memory usage in the lower right corner of the
interface.
• Double-click—Single clicking a resource selects it and double-clicking it opens it
in an editor.
• Single click (select on hover)—Hovering the mouse cursor over the resource
selects it and clicking it once opens it in an editor.