Neoview Management Dashboard Client Guide for Database Administrators (R2.3)

object-state changes that should be displayed for this report. Alerts are reported with most recent
state changes listed first, followed by less recent changes.
Score Check Box: If selected, a color-coded score-board matrix of object types versus object-state
counts is generated whenever a notification occurs for this profile. This report is useful for
providing the overall health of system, subsystem, and application objects.
Detail: If the value selected is zero, this menu disables the display of a Detail report for this
profile. If the value selected is not zero, the value defines the number of most critical objects to
be displayed in the object-state report. The Detail report shows offending objects sorted from
the highest, most-critical state to the lowest, least-critical state.
Style HTML Option: Indicates reports should be formatted in HTML.
Style TEXT Option: Indicates reports should be formatted in plain text.
Style Short Check Box: Indicates reports should be extremely abbreviated. Select this check box
if you want only brief Alerts, Score, and Details reports. This is especially useful if you are sending
a report to a short text message device (for example, a wireless pager or a cell phone).
To send notifications via a short message service such as an SMTP gateway, create a different
profile for each report type (Alerts, Score, and Detail), each with Short Text selected. If you do
this, you will receive three different abbreviated reports when an alert occurs.
Refresh: Indicates the HTML refresh rate in seconds. If this field is not zero, the value specifies
how often a web browser automatically updates the web page for this profile. That is, the Notify
Rule defines when a web page file is updated on the web server, and the Refresh menu defines
how often a web browser should pull that page. The web page file is defined in the File text box.
File text box: Indicates reports for this profile will be stored in the file specified. If this field is
blank, the report notification is sent without being stored on disk. If this field specifies a valid
path and file name, the report is stored in the file specified. If Style is HTML, the contents (and
the extension) of the file are formatted as HTML.
One use of this option is for web page creation. For example:
1. Specify Notify Rule: OnEachSample.
2. Specify desired Alerts, Scoreboard, and Detail reports.
3. Specify Style: HTML (Do not select Short.)
4. Specify File such as …/inetpub/wwwroot/Alerts.
5. Specify Refresh: 30 Seconds.
These settings allow Dashboard alert and report analysis to be incorporated into web sites.
Configuring multiple profiles with different Notify Rules and report options allows for a variety
of web pages.
Considerations
The value of the Minimum State Change menu on the OSC Property sheet determines the
minimum state that is monitored for alert notification purposes. For example, if the minimum
state change monitored is Critical, only objects with state changes to the Critical or Down state
cause alert notifications. The Notify button is located on the OSC property sheet because its
actions are directly related to the Minimum State Change menu setting.
Notify Recipients
To, CC, BCC fields: Define the recipients who receive electronic mail (e-mail) notifications. These
fields all accept comma-separated lists of e-mail addresses to whom notifications will be mailed,
courtesy copied, or blind copied. For example, To field recipients can be specified as:
To: [e-mail], [e-mail]
If you do not want to receive e-mail notifications but would like notification reports to
automatically appear on your workstation when notify rule conditions are satisfied, leave the
To, CC, and BCC fields blank.
76 Using the Client Property Sheets