Customizing the display of the event list in the TrueSight console

You can customize the display of the event list on the Events page to suit your event monitoring and management preferences. These settings are individual, user-based preferences and apply to all pages where the Events page is used, like Device Details and Monitor Details.

To customize the display of the events list, on the Events page, click theevents_Preferences.PNGicon, make the desired changes, and click Save to apply the settings.

The following video (4:01) illustrates how to set event preferences settings to customize the display.

Note

The following video displays screens from an earlier version, however, the information provided in the video is still relevant to the current version of the product.


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The following table describes the settings that you can change:

Setting

Description

General

Show confirmation for:

Confirmation window for the selected event operation, before you run the event operation.
All Event Operations: A confirmation is displayed before you run any event operation.
Close event only: A confirmation is displayed only when you close events. No confirmation is displayed for other event operations.
None: No confirmation is displayed before you run any event operation.

Maximum number of events to display

Maximum number of events to display on the Events page. When the number of events exceeds this value and cannot be displayed, review and refine the event filters or search for the event.

Number of events to download initially

Optimum number of events to download initially to stabilize response time. When you scroll down to view more events, the same number of events are downloaded and added to the events list.

Maximum multi-events to perform action on

Maximum number of events that you can select to perform a common action on.

For more information about performing action on multiple events, see Performing-event-operations-in-the-TrueSight-console.

Events Auto Refresh

Refresh setting for events.

You can choose from one to ten minutes. If you select Off, the event groups are not refreshed automatically. At any time, you can click the Refresh iconevents_Refresh.PNG to manually refresh the page.

By default, 2 minutes is selected.

Events Notification

Notification setting for events.

On: The event_notification_icon.pngicon on the Events page flashes briefly when new events appear. The color of this icon changes to the color of the highest severity event. The most recent ten events are displayed when you click the icon. This is the default selection.
Off: No notification is displayed for a new event. If you choose to automatically refresh the page from the Events Auto Refresh setting, the page refreshes periodically and displays the new events. Else, to view the new events or the current state of the events, you must manually refresh the page by using the Refresh iconevents_Refresh.PNG.

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Controls the loading of the data on the event page. This creates a separate scroll bar apart from the browser scroll bar.

By default, it is set to Off.

On: Event grids display a separate scroll bar and displays the data on the event page much faster.

Off: Doesn't display a separate scroll bar and loads the data as normal.

Rows

Show internal names of event attributes in tool tips

Enabled: The internal names of event attributes are displayed when you hover over the attribute.
Disabled: The labels (display names) of event attributes are displayed when you hover over the attribute.

Show severity, priority, and status icons

Enabled: Icons that indicate the status, severity, and priority of events are displayed.
Disabled: Text (without icons) that indicate the status, severity, and priority of events are displayed.

Show row numbers

Enabled: A row number is displayed sequentially for each event row.
Disabled: No row number is displayed for an event row.

Show check box for event selection

Enabled: A check box is displayed for each event row that enables you to select a row.
Disabled: No check boxes are displayed for the event rows.

Show severity colors for:

Highlights the event rows according to the severity levels of the events. 

Icons Only: The color of the icons matches that of the event severity. However, if you disable the icons by clearing the Show icons for status, severity, and priority columns check box, no color-coding is applied to the rows.
Icons and Text: The color of the icons and text matches that of the event severity.
Background: The color of the row background matches that of the event severity.

For more information about the severity levels and colors, see the Event severity section in Understanding-event-states.

Note: This setting does not apply for events that have a Closed or Blackout status. Icons and text on these event rows are displayed in gray with a white background.

Show users from the selected user group for the 'Assign To' operation

Enabled: Displays the Default User Group list. The user groups displayed are directly related to the logged-in user. Only if the logged-in user is a member of a particular user group, that user group is displayed in the list. The selected user group value appears as the default selection at the time of assigning an event. With the result, while assigning an event, you can select a user from a limited list of users associated with that user group. Note that if a user gets disconnected from a user group (of which the user was originally a member), you will see the user group default selection is set to a blank value.

Disabled: Results in having to scroll through a list of all users while assigning an event. If this setting is disabled, you cannot select a user group at the time of assigning an event. By default, this setting is disabled.

For more information, see Performing-event-operations-in-the-TrueSight-console.

Select the first event row as by default

Supported with version 11.3.05 and later.

To be able to view and use this feature, you need to apply the service pack version 11.3.05 for Presentation Server.

Enabled: Enables the default selection of the first event row. In the event row list, the first event row is displayed by default as selected.
Disabled: The first event row is not displayed by default as selected.

Related topics

Monitoring-and-managing-events

Monitoring-infrastructure-devices