General Settings

The General Settings section of the Operations Monitor Settings dialog box allows you to view the status of the Operations Monitor server, configure date and time, update the Operations Monitor software or license, view properties of the currently installed license and execute some system-wide actions.

Status

The Status page allows you to view some important information about the Operations Monitor server at a glance. To access the Status page, from the Settings menu, select General Settings, and then select Status. The Status page has three text boxes, Network, Date and Time, and Software, as shown in Figure 7-1.

The Network text box displays information about the configuration of the primary network interface (IP Address, Network Mask, Default Gateway, and Name server). The Date and Time text box displays information about the configured Time Zone and the Current date and time settings on the Operations Monitor server. Finally, the Software text box displays the time since the Operations Monitor software has been up and the time since core has been running.

Actions

The Actions page allows you to block alerts and reset the browser UI state. To access the Actions page, from the Settings menu, select General Settings, and then select Actions. To execute one of these actions, click the corresponding button on the Actions page (see Figure 7-2). A confirmation dialog box appears. Click OK to continue.

Table 7-1 lists the Action Page fields.

Table 7-1 Action Page Fields

Field Description

Block alerts

Blocks the sending of alerts configured on the alerts page.

Reset UI state

For the user's convenience, Operations Monitor stores state information about the tables in HTTP cookies. The state information contains the hidden columns and the filtering criteria. This way the filters are kept even if the web page is refreshed or the browser is restarted. You can drop this UI state by using this action. It will delete all HTTP cookies used for state persistence.

External IP/hostname

The External IP/hostname is used as base for deep links in alerting emails. Typically, this is the hostname you see in the address field of your browser.

This page allows you to view and update the External IP/hostname. To access the page, from the Settings menu, select General Settings, and then select External IP/hostname. The External IP/hostname page contains one field in which you can enter new text. Enter text in the field and click Update to save the External IP/hostname.