Use this procedure to create an Instances filter.
- From the Instances widget
title bar, click
and select Configure or Personalize.
The Show/Hide tab opens.
- Select the Filters tab.
- Select the monitoring context that you are creating a filter for
and click Add to create the first line of filter
criteria.
- From the drop-down lists, select a Metric and
an Operator.
- Click in the Value field and enter a filter
value. For a boolean filter, select either True or False.
- To make your filter value case-sensitive, select the Case
sensitive check box.
- To create an additional filter criteria line, click Add.
(To delete a filter criteria line, click
.)
- To set a time filter:
- Under Time Reference, choose from the following
options:
- Last completed period
- Current period
- Sliding interval
- Fixed interval
- For a Last completed period filter, select
a period, time metric, time zone, and location (optional).
- For a Current period filter, select a period,
time metric, time zone, and location (optional).
- For a Sliding interval filter, select the
number of (years, months, days, hours, minutes) to slide back, select
a period, and a time metric.
- For a Fixed interval filter, select a metric,
time zone and location (optional), and specify a From and To date
range using
. The locations available for repeating and fixed
filters vary depending on the time zone selected.
- Under Description, enter a description
for the filter you are creating. From the Instances display, this
information appears when you move the mouse pointer over the
information icon.
- To save and return to Instances,
click Save. To save and continue making changes,
click Apply. To exit without saving, click Cancel.