HP NonStop G-Series - Manual (Page 367)

Monitoring Event Messages
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Using the Event Viewer
Using the Event Viewer
The TSM EMS Event Viewer provides:
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Serial, summary, expanded, and detailed views of events.
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Multiple event sources, including merged and/or imported logs.
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Flexible event selection capabilities (including by subsystem, subject, priority, as
well as an exclusion function).
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Flexible event display (single line, full detail, token selection, color/emphasis
encoding).
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Filter manipulation functions to refine and focus a view of the events.
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Decoding of events and tokens on the workstation.
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Ability to define and save views.
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Ability to view related events.
You can use the TSM EMS Event Viewer Application to:
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Set Up Event Retrieval Criteria
The Event Viewer provides dialogs for you to set up the search criteria used to
retrieve events based on start and end time, subsystem, source, and specific events.
You can save any Event Retrieval Criteria you have specified for future use.
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Select Events for Display
After retrieving the events from the NonStop™ Kernel system to the workstation,
you can further select which events you want to look at. You can:
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Change event display parameters, including color and font style, size, and type.
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Display events by timeframe, subsystem, subject, and priority, as well as specify
which events should be included in or excluded from the display.
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Select which columns are to be displayed and specify their order.
Use these features to further refine the criteria specified for event retrieval.
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View Events
You can specify how you want to view the selected events. You can view events by
log time or in summary form, then select specific events for detailed viewing. You
can also display all events related to a selected one.