Creating monitors
A monitor is a definition of the information you want to view when
monitoring the system using the Web-based System Monitor. For example,
you might have a monitor called System Overview, which displays status and
start time of all system components. You create this monitor using the
Monitor Definition Wizard, a tool launched from System Manager.
When you create a monitor, it contains a particular type of system
information that can be monitored. Each type of system information has
one or more display options available. Each display option has
configurable properties. To see what information types and display
options are available when creating a new monitor, see Figure 7.
- Note:
- Before creating new monitors, be sure to look at the existing default
monitors in Table 1, to see if the monitor you want to create already
exists.
To create a new monitor, follow these steps:
- From the System Manager perspective of IBM WebSphere Studio Workbench,
right-click the server instance you want to connect to, then click
Connect. The Server User ID and Password dialog box appears.
- Type the User ID and password for that server, then click OK. The
status of the server changes from "unknown" or "disconnected" to
"connected."
- Note:
- If the status does not change to "connected," make sure the selected ICS
Express server is running.
- Right-click the server instance, then select Monitor Definition
Wizard. The Monitor Definition Wizard appears. See Figure 7..
Figure 7. Monitor Definition Wizard, screen for selecting information type and display option

- Select the type of information you want in the monitor from the
Information Types group box, then select how you want the information
displayed from the Displayed Option(s) group box. Each information type
has one or more available display options. To see examples of the
display options, see Sample display options, and for a description of the configurable properties of
each display option, see Table 2..
- Note:
- If business object probes exist, they will appear in the Information Types
group box. For instructions on adding business object probes, refer to
the Collaboration Development Guide.
- Note:
- When you select an information type from the Information Types group box,
only the available display options are enabled in the Display Option(s) group
box. The unavailable display options remain grayed out.
- Click Next. The Specify Monitor Properties screen appears (see Figure 8).
Figure 8. Monitor Definition Wizard, Specify Monitor Properties screen

- Type a name for the new monitor in the Title field. You can also
optionally type a description in the Description field. To make sure
you do not use an existing monitor name, click Existing Monitors. This
displays a list of the existing monitors.
- Depending on what information type and display option you chose in the
previous screen, you may or may not have more choices to make in this
screen. For example, in Figure 8, you can enter the number of rows to appear, select
which attributes to include, and place the chosen attributes in a particular
order. These options are available for both Table and Table Tree
display options.
Meter is the other display option that has configurable properties in this
screen. If you create a monitor with a meter, the configurable property
is "meter threshold."
For a list of all display option configurable properties, when using either
the Monitor Definition Wizard or the Web-based System Monitor, see Table 2..
- Depending on which attributes you chose in this screen, either the Next
button or the Finish button is enabled.
- If the Finish button is enabled, then the attributes you chose cannot
contain thresholds.
- If the Next button is enabled, then the attributes you chose can contain
thresholds.
- Click Next or Finish, depending on which button is enabled.
- When you click Finish, the following message appears, "The monitor was
created successfully. Do you want to create another monitor?" Click Yes
or No.
- When you click Next, the Specify Attribute Thresholds screen
appears. For an example of a Specify Attribute Thresholds screen, see
Figure 9 on page 24. In the Specify Attribute Thresholds screen, you
can optionally type a numeric value in the threshold field for each
attribute.
- Note:
- During runtime, if the value of an attribute exceeds the value of the
threshold set for that attribute, the cell that contains the attribute value
appears highlighted when it is displayed in the table.
Figure 9. Monitor Definition Wizard, Specify Attribute Thresholds screen

- After specifying any attribute thresholds, click Finish. The
following message appears, "The monitor was created successfully. Do
you want to create another monitor?" Click Yes or No.
See also:
Overview
Using default monitors
Configurable properties of display options
Display samples
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