Graphing active alarms

The View Active alarm screen includes the ability to produce a set of summary graphs which provide statistical summaries of the active alarms. The active alarms can be graphed based on different topology characteristics or alarm data fields by selecting one or more components from the Graph list. The graphing selections are persistent.

The active alarm graphs display as a series of stacked bar graphs, one bar stack for each server. Each bar stack shows the count of critical, major and minor alarms for the selected items in the Graph list. Multiple graphs display side-by-side for each item selected. The graphs are displayed above the active alarms grid listing.

Use this procedure to graph active alarms:

1. Click Alarms & Events > View Active.
2. If necessary, specify filter criteria In the Filter list and click Go.
   The selected Filter criteria are applied to all Server Group tabs. The active alarms that meet the specified criteria display.
3. Specify one or more graphical information components from the Graph list. Valid components are listed in Table 5-5.

   Table 5-5 Graphical information components

   Topology Components	Alarm Data Field Components
   Network Element	Event ID
   Server	Severity
   Server Group	Product
   Resource Domain	Process
   Place	Server
   Place Association	Type

   Note:

   Server is both a topology component and a data field in the active alarm data grid display.

   The graphs for the selected components display above the tabbed area.

4. To adjust the graph viewing area, click and hold the slider above the graph while adjusting the proportions with the mouse.
5. To remove one or more graphs, de-select the choices from the Graph list.
   If only some choices are deselected, the deselected graphs disappear. If all choices are deselected, the graph display disappears.