Table Of Contents

Configuring Views for the Alerts and Activities Display

Getting Started with Views

Creating a View

Activating and Deactivating a View

Modifying a View

Deleting a View

Configuring Views for the Alerts and Activities Display

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These topics explain how to work with views in the Device Fault Manager (DFM) Alerts and Activities display:

•Getting Started with Views

•Creating a View

•Activating and Deactivating a View

•Modifying a View

•Deleting a View

Getting Started with Views

Views are logical groupings of existing device groups. You can populate your views with system-defined groups, as described in Working with System Defined Groups, and with groups you have created.

After you decide how you want to cluster your groups into a logical set, you can create and activate a view of these groups so they appear in the Alerts and Activities display. View elements are not shown until the view is activated and is displayed in the view pane (normally every two minutes).

An Alerts and Activities display can have a maximum of 18 active views.

Figure 9-1 shows the View pane in the Alerts and Activities display.

Figure 9-1 Alerts and Activities Display—View Pane

By default, the Alerts and Activities display contains two views: All Alerts and Suspended Devices. These views are static and cannot be modified, deactivated, or deleted.

When you create a view, the view is applied to the server and is available to all clients of the server. Any action you perform on a view, affects all clients of that server.

Depending on an alert's severity, when an alert is raised for a device or element in one of your views, DFM notifies you by displaying the appropriate icon in the view selector, next to the view. This icon indicates the view that needs your attention.

If the DFM server is using Access Control Server (ACS) mode, ACS may limit the devices you are permitted to view. For more information, see Device-Based Filtering.

Creating a View

You can create views using either:

•System Defined Groups, which are DFM system default groups,

Or

•User Defined Groups, which you can create yourself

See Managing Groups, for more information on groups.

After you decide which groups to include in a view, use this procedure to create the view. Be sure to activate the view after creating it.

You can also first create a view group using Grouping Services (under DFM user defined groups), and then create a view using that group. See Editing a Group.

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Step 1 From DFM or the CiscoWorks home page, select Configuration > Other Configurations > Alerts and Activities Defaults.

The Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page appears.

Step 2 Click Create.

The View Properties: Create page appears.

Step 3 In the View Properties: Create page, do the following:

a. In the Name field, enter a unique name for your view.

The name cannot exceed 18 characters and may use alphanumeric characters, underscores, dashes, hyphens, or spaces. You can use the name of a view that was deleted, but you cannot use the same name as any existing views.

b. Enter a description in the Description field. This is optional.

c. In the group object selector, activate the check boxes for the groups you want to include in your view.

d. Click Next.

The View Summary: Create page appears.

Step 4 Do any of the following:

•If your settings are correct, click Finish. Your new view will be listed on the Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page.

•If your settings are incorrect, click Back.

•If you want to cancel the view creation, click Cancel.

Step 5 In the Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page:

a. Select the radio button for the view you want to activate.

b. Click Activate.

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The Alerts and Activities display will display your new activated view when the view pane is refreshed (normally every two minutes).

Activating and Deactivating a View

To include a view in the Alerts and Activities display, you must first activate it. When you activate or deactivate a view, your changes are shown in the Alerts and Activities display when the view pane is refreshed (every two minutes).

If you deactivate a view, it is removed from your Alerts and Activities display when the view pane is refreshed. The deactivated view can be reactivated from the Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page. An Alerts and Activities display may contain a maximum of 18 active views for each partition.

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Note You cannot deactivate the All Alerts view or Suspended Devices view.

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Step 1 From DFM or the CiscoWorks home page, select Configuration > Other Configurations > Alerts and Activities Defaults.

The Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page appears.

Step 2 In the Alerts and Activities Views: View Management, page:

a. Check the check boxes for the views you want to activate or deactivate.

b. Do one of the following:

•Click Activate.

A confirmation window appears. The view is added to the Alerts and Activities display when the view pane is refreshed (normally every two minutes).

•Click Deactivate.

A confirmation window appears.

Step 3 Click Yes to confirm your action.

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The views are added to or deleted from the Alerts and Activities display when the view pane is refreshed (normally every two minutes). The corresponding status change is reflected in the View Management table.

Modifying a View

You can modify views that are active or have been deactivated.

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Note You cannot modify the All Alerts or Suspended Devices views.

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Step 1 From DFM or the CiscoWorks home page, select Configuration > Other Configurations > Alerts and Activities Defaults.

The Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page appears.

Step 2 In the view selector, check the check box for the view you want to modify.

Step 3 Click Edit.

The View Properties: Edit page appears.

Step 4 In the View Properties: Edit page, you can:

a. Change the description in the Description field.

b. Change the view membership by activating or deactivating group check boxes.

You cannot change the name of the view.

Step 5 Click Next.

The View Summary: Edit page appears.

Step 6 Do one of the following:

•If your settings are correct, click Finish.

The new view will be listed on the Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page.

•If your settings are incorrect, click Back.

•If you want to cancel the edit, click Cancel.

If you edited a deactivated view, you can activate it in the Alerts and Activities: View Management page:

a. Select the view radio button.

b. Click Activate.

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Your view changes will appear when the view pane is refreshed (normally every two minutes).

Deleting a View

Since active views can be deleted, be careful when deleting views. You cannot delete the All Alerts or Suspended Devices views.

You can delete views that are active or have been deactivated.

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Step 1 From DFM or the CiscoWorks home page, select Configuration > Other Configurations > Alerts and Activities Defaults.

The Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page appears.

Step 2 In the Alerts and Activities Views: View Management page:

a. Check the check boxes for the views you want to delete.

b. Click Delete.

A confirmation message appears.

Step 3 Click Yes to confirm the deletion.

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The views will be removed from the Alerts and Activities view pane when the view pane is refreshed (normally every two minutes).