Introduction
There are two types of event console users. They are defined as follows:
- Administrator
- Personnel who have the responsibility to configure
event groups, configure event consoles, and assign operators to event consoles.
Administrators have access to the Configuration view, Summary Chart view, Priority view, and the
Event Viewer.
- Operator
- Personnel who have the responsibility to manage events
on a regular basis
using the Event Viewer.
Operators have access to the Summary Chart view, Priority view, and the Event Viewer.
Whether you are an administrator or operator is based on your Tivoli authorization roles, which are defined
in Tivoli Management Framework. See the
IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console User's Guide for additional information about the
roles required for administrators and operators.
Accessing Views
To access a view, click Windows from the menu bar and select a view
from the pull-down menu.
Accessing the Event Viewer
To access the Event Viewer, select either:
- Windows > Summary Chart View
from the menu bar.
Then, click on the summary chart for the event group to view in the Event Viewer.
- Windows > Priority View
from the menu bar.
Then, click on the button for the event group to view in the Event Viewer.
Online Help System
The online help system provides all of the procedural, conceptual, and dialog information for
configuring and using event consoles.
To access context-sensitive help from the event console, press the F1 key or the Help button
while a window has focus.
To generally access help,
select Help from the menu bar.
Installation and overview information is located in the
IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console User's Guide.
The help system contains the following navigators.
Each is accessed by clicking on its tab in the left pane of the
Tivoli Enterprise Console - Help window.
- Table of contents
- Provides navigation information similar to the table of contents in a
book.
Some topics are grouped into folders you can expand and collapse by
clicking the turner icon next to the folder. To view a topic, click its title.
- Index
- Provides navigation information similar to the index in a book.
To find a term in the index, either:
- Type the term or part of the term in the Find text box and press
Enter.
You can press Enter multiple times to keep searching the index.
Each time a match is found, its help topic is displayed.
- Scroll the index and click on a term.
Its help topic is displayed.
(Index headings do not display a help topic.)
- Search
- Provides navigation using a full-text search facility.
Type a word or phrase in the Find text box and press Enter.
The search facility returns a list of topics that contain the word or
phrase.
Along with the topic names, the following two pieces of information are
also shown adjacent to each topic name in the list:
- A circle icon that represents the ranking of matches.
The more filled in the icon is, the higher the ranking and the more
likely the topic answers your query.
- A number that represents how many matches were in each topic.
By default, the first topic in the results list is displayed in the content pane.
To view other topics, click on them in the results list.
Consider the following items when using the search facility:
- The search facility is case sensitive.
Use the proper case for words and phrases.
- Its usefulness depends on the term or phrase that you enter.
Try to be as specific
as possible with words and phrases.
Being general could result in too many topics returned.
- The full-text search engine finds words
with common roots.
For example, when the term event is specified,
matches that contain event, event group,
event group ID, and base event
are returned.
To print help topics, click the print button in the toolbar
of the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console - Help window while the topic is displayed.
To traverse topics
previously viewed, click on the previous and next buttons in the toolbar
of the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console - Help window.
To control the splitter bar between the navigator and content panes,
click the zoom buttons
located at the top of the splitter bar, or drag the splitter bar.
Manipulating the splitter bar enables you to adjust the size of the split panes
in the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console - Help window.
To close the IBM Tivoli Enterprise Console - Help window, click the icon in the left
corner of the title bar; then, select Close from the pull-down menu.