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Event Center

Topics marked with * relate to HQ Enterprise-only features.

This screen allows users to centrally view all the Events across the entire HQ deployment.

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Tasks Available on This Screen

On this screen, users can do the following tasks:

To refresh the list:

  • Click at the top right.

To sort the list:

  • Click the 'Date' column heading on the right side.
    When viewing events, the sort will apply to all events from the database, not just the events currently displayed on the screen.

Sections on This Screen

Filter

To limit the events displayed in the Events section, choose one or more filter options.

  • Minimum Status - Select a status to limit the log tracking events in the list to those of that level or higher.  Log tracking event levels, in decreasing order of severity, are:
    • Error
    • Warning 
    • Info 
    • Debug
  • Type - Select a type to limit events in the list to those of that type:
    • Log track
    • Event Track
    • Alerts
  • Time Range - Select on the following time ranges to limit th events in the list to those occurred during the range:
    • Last 4 hours
    • Last 8 hours
    • Last day
    • Last week
    • Last month
  • Groups - Select one or more groups to limit the events in the list to those related to resources in the selected group(s).

Events

This section lists all the events across the HQ deployment. In the "Filter" section, users can filter the list of events displayed at the right.

The following information is shown for each event in the list:

  • Date: Date and time the event happened
  • Status: For log track events, the level is shown. For alerts, the status column contains "alert".
  • Resource: The name of the resource that caused the event
  • Subject: For an alert, the alert name; for a Nagios check, the plugin name, including path.
  • Detail: Information about the event detail or triggering condition.

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Navigating via the Masthead Menu

Main screens in Hyperic contain a masthead menu. Users can navigate to the following parts of HQ using this menu:

Dashboard Displays the Dashboard, the starting screen in HQ, which displays information about resource health, recent alerts, recently performed auto-discovery scan, and control actions
Resources Click the menu name to access either Browse (takes users to the Browse Resources screen, where they can locate and navigate through information about all managed resources), Currently Down (takes users to the Currently Down screen, where they can look at all managed resources that are unavailable), Nagios Availability (available only when Nagios is installed), or Recently Viewed (provides a drop-down list of resources that the user has recently viewed. Selecting one of those resources takes the user to the Current Health screen for the resource).
Analyze Click the menu name to access Reporting * (presents the Reporting screen, from which reports can be generated), Alert Center (presents the Alert Center, which displays a deployment wide alert summary), or Event Center (presents the Event Center, which displays a deployment-wide event summary).
Administration Takes users (with "Administer Hyperic HQ Server Configuration" permissions) to the Administration screen, where they can manage the system-wide settings
Search
The Search box in the upper right of the Masthead allows you to search for HQ resources of any type and HQ users.

Search results appear after four characters are entered in the text box. Results will include the first 10 platforms, servers, services, and groups whose name includes the search string.

Double-click a resource in the list to navigate to its Resource page.

The masthead also displays the two most recently triggered alerts. Users can click the alert's time to be taken to the alert detail.

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Next Steps

TBD

Related Information
Return to the HQ User Interface Reference.

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