Creating new 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:

  1. 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.
  2. 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.
  3. 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


  4. 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.
  5. Click Next. The Specify Monitor Properties screen appears (see Figure 8).

    Figure 8. Monitor Definition Wizard, Specify Monitor Properties screen


  6. 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.
  7. 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..

  8. Depending on which attributes you chose in this screen, either the Next button or the Finish button is enabled.
  9. Click Next or Finish, depending on which button is enabled.

    Figure 9. Monitor Definition Wizard, Specify Attribute Thresholds screen


  10. 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

Different approaches for using the Web-based System Monitor

Using default monitors

Logging on to the Web-based System Monitor

Contents of the Web-based System Monitor

Using views

Fine-tuning the Web-based System Monitor

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