HP StorageWorks Reference Information Storage System V1.1 Administrator Guide (February 2005)

Alerts folder Chapter 2: Platform Control Center
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Creating alert histogram reports
1. Choose report type: Host or Service .
2. Choose host or service.
3. Choose report options:
– Report Period : Choose predefined period ( Last 24 Hours , Today , Yesterday ,
This Week , Last 7 Days , Last Week , This Month , Last Month , This Year , Last
Year
); or choose * CUSTOM REPORT PERIOD * , and specify custom
report start and end dates.
– Statistics Breakdown : Choose time scale to use for Report Period : Month ,
Day of the Month , Day of the Week , or Hour of the Day .
– Events To Graph : Choose type of host or service events to report on:
events indicating change to specific status value, all problem status
values, or all events.
– State Types To Graph : Choose status conditions to graph: HARD , SOFT ,
or both. See
Hard and soft status conditions , on page 2-15.
– Assume State Retention : Typically, you use the default, Yes . Choose Yes
to use last recorded status value before PCC startup as status value
assumed for periods when monitoring was down.
– Initial States Logged : Not used
– Ignore Repeated States : Not used
4. Click
Create Report .
Alerts History view
This view provides a chronology of logged PCC alerts. Alerts are a subset of
events listed in the
Event Log view. You can filter this view to display only
specific alert types, and display alerts for any given day.
Service Detail view , on page 2-53 , for host View Status Detail For This Host
Table 2-75: Links from Alerts Histogram view (continued)
Destination Link