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:
- Open System Manager.
- 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.
- 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.
- Right-click the server instance, then click Monitor Definition
Wizard. The Monitor Definition Wizard appears, as show below.

- 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).
- Click Next. The Specify Monitor Properties page appears, as shown below. .
- Add the following information on the Specify Monitor Properties page:
- Type a name for the new monitor in the Title field. To make sure you do not use an existing monitor name, click Existing Monitors to view a list of the existing monitors.
- (optional) Type a description in the Description field.
- Configure any additional properties available for the display option. These choices depend on the information type and display option you chose in the previous page. For example, in the Specify Monitor Properties page, you can type 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.
For a list of all display option configurable properties, when using either
the Monitor Definition Wizard or System Monitor, see the Configurable properties of display options table.
- Do one of the following:
- If the attributes you chose contain thresholds, the Next button is available. Click the Next button to configure the thresholds. The Specify Attribute Thresholds screen
appears. In the Specify Attribute Thresholds screen, you
can optionally type a numeric value in the threshold field for each
attribute. When running the monitor, 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 in the table.
- If the attributes don't contain thresholds, the Finish button is available. Click Finish. The following message appears, "The monitor was created successfully. Do you want to create another monitor?" Click Yes or No.
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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