Creating additional monitors

A monitor is a definition of the information you want to view when monitoring the system using 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 started 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 the Monitor Definition Wizard screen for selecting information type and display option .

Note:
Before creating additional monitors, be sure to review the existing default monitors in Default monitors table, to see if the monitor you want to create already exists.

Perform the following steps to create a monitor:

  1. Open System Manager.
  2. In the InterChange Server Component Management view, right-click the server instance to which you want to connect, and click Connect. The Server User ID and Password dialog box appears.
  3. 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 InterChange Server Express server is running.

  4. Right-click the server instance, then click Monitor Definition Wizard. The Monitor Definition Wizard appears, as show below.

    Monitor Definition Wizard, page for selecting information type and display option

  5. Select the type of information that you want in the monitor from the Information Types list, then select how you want the information displayed under Displayed Option(s).
    Each information type has one or more available display options. To see examples of the display options, see Examples of display options, and for a description of the configurable properties of each display option, see the Configurable properties of display options table.
    Note:
    If business object probes exist, they appear in the Information Types list. For instructions on adding business object probes, refer to the Collaboration Development Guide.
    Note:
    When you select an information type from the Information Types list, only the available display options are available under Display Option(s).

  6. Click Next. The Specify Monitor Properties page appears, as shown below. .

    Monitor Definition Wizard, Specify Monitor Properties page

  7. Add the following information on the Specify Monitor Properties page:
  8. Do one of the following:

See also:

System Monitor overview

Different approaches for using System Monitor

Using default monitors

Logging on to System Monitor

Contents of the System Monitor Web page

Using views in System Monitor

Customizing data in System Monitor


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