Deactivating parameters

To reduce the impact on your system resources and enhance performance, you can deactivate parameters that you do not want to see.

Deactivating a consumer parameter only stops that parameter from accepting the data sent to it by the collector that sets its value. A deactivated consumer parameter does not appear in the console and does not go into an alarm or warning state. However, the collector that sets the deactivated consumer parameter sends an error message to the system output window each time that collector attempts to send information to the deactivated consumer parameter. Some collector parameters also trigger unwanted recovery actions when they cannot find a deactivated consumer. Before deactivating a consumer or collector parameter, see the "Collector-consumer dependencies" in the PATROL for Oracle online Help

To deactivate parameters and parameter alarms across an enterprise, see the PATROL for Oracle User Guide and the PATROL Configuration Manager User Guide, and see Using PATROL Configuration Manager to manage parameters for information about how to use the PATROL Configuration Manager to manage parameters in PATROL for Oracle.

To deactivate parameters with the PATROL Console for Microsoft Windows

1. From the KM tab in the left or tree view, go to the application class that contains the parameter you want to deactivate and choose Global > Parameters.
2. Right-click the parameter that you want to deactivate, and choose Properties from the pop-up menu.
3. Clear Active.

To deactivate parameters with the PATROL Console for UNIX

1. Choose Attributes > Application Classes from the menu bar.
2. Select the application class, and choose Attributes > Parameters.
3. Select one or more parameters, and choose Options > Deactivate.