Display of ALERTs in text format

Selecting Option 2 from the ALERT Management Menu, issuing the EXPAND primary command in the ALERT OVERVIEW application, or using the Select | S line command in the ALERT OVERVIEW Statistics application causes the following panel to be invoked:

Figure 1. ALERT DETAIL panel

BMC Software -------------------- ALERT DETAIL -------------------------------
COMMAND ===>                                                 TGT ===> CHICAGO
INTERVAL ==> 3     Suffix ===> 00   COL.   0 - 53            DATE --- YY/MM/DD
STATUS   --- INPUT                  Queue(s) ===> NETWORK    TIME --- 11:44:41

RSP   TIME IND ORIGIN   ---------Total    5 ---------------- Sorted by QUEUE
_____ 11:44 ech DETROIT AMF001I - INITIATOR NOT AVAILABLE FOR FINANCE PRODUCT
_____ 11:44 eh DETROIT AMF020E - LINES DOWN:
                          - BERLIN
                          - CHICAGO
_____ 11:44 h   CHICAGO ALM0100 8100 COMMUNICATION LINE DOWN:
                       -CHI998A21
_____ 11:43     CHICAGO COMMUNICATION LINES DOWN:
                               - DALLAS
                               - CHICAGO
_____ 11:43 e   CHICAGO COMM ControlLER HAS I/O ERROR
                     ********************** END OF ALERTS *********************

While the other ALERT applications display information regarding the counts of ALERTs (in effect, providing an abstract picture of the general health of a system), this application enables you to display the nature of a problem. It provides a scrollable listing of the textual content of all ALERTs or a subset of ALERTs present in the target MainView AutoOPERATOR BBI-SS.

The text is formatted according to the line feed and color instructions provided during ALERT generation.

The fields on this panel are

Field	Contents
Interval	rate in seconds in which the contents of this panel will be refreshed if placed into auto-refresh using the GO primary command
Suffix	profile suffix used to construct panel Use the SET primary command or overtype this value to select a different configuration. To construct a new setup, enter a new suffix. You will be prompted for the required values.
Col.	columns of ALERT text displayed The first value can be typed over, thus effectively scrolling the text horizontally. The second value is automatically computed from the first.
Status	indicator whether application has been entered into screen refresh: Input: Application accepts input Running: Application is in screen refresh
Queues	input field accepting overrides for the standard profile backing this application If any contents are present in this field, they take precedence, thus temporarily disabling the profile. Valid input values are queue names and queue name patterns.
Rsp	response action field for the ALERT it precedes It serves two different functions: Allows you to delete the indicated ALERT by erasing the underscores and pressing Enter Allows you to enter up to five characters in this field and press Enter to schedule a follow-up EXEC (if one was specified at ALERT creation) The five characters get passed to the EXEC as a positional parameter.
Time	time the ALERT was issued
Ind	ALERT contents indicator: E: Follow-up EXEC is available (EXEC keyword was specified at ALERT creation) C: Command transfer is available (PCMD keyword was specified at ALERT creation) H: ALERT specific help is available (HELP keyword was specified at ALERT creation) When a help panel is associated with an ALERT, the help text member must be included the BBPLIB concatenation for the terminal session.
Origin	origin associated with this ALERT The origin of an ALERT is one of the following: -0: the default value is the originating EXEC's IMFSYSID; for example, the originating job name for the EXEC For Rule-generated ALERTs: the default value is the subsystem identifier of the subsystem the ALERT was created on For either EXEC or Rule generated ALERTs: the origin may be explicitly specified through the ORIGIN keyword at ALERT creation
Sorted by	input field designating the sort order in which the ALERTs on this panel are shown Acceptable values are TIME and QUEUE, and PRIORITY. When sorted by TIME, all ALERTs are shown by creation time in descending order (the ALERTs created most recently appear at the top of the listing). When sorted by QUEUE, all ALERTs are sorted by a combined key of queue and time. In other words, the ALERTs within a queue appear grouped together and sorted within the queue again by time.

The application supports the following specific primary commands:

Command	Function
PROFILE	invokes the profile setup for the suffix currently active (in other words, entered in the field labeled Profile suffix) The panel shown in Use-of-profiles will be displayed.
TRANSFER	performs the command transfer specified for a particular ALERT This command requires the cursor to be placed within the text area of an ALERT that bears a C in the Ind. column, indicating for this ALERT a command association is present. The TRANSFER command is designed to be assigned to program function keys and act as a hot-key rather than to be explicitly entered on the COMMAND line.
EXPAND	retrieves and displays help information associated with a particular ALERT This command requires the cursor to be placed within the text area of an ALERT that bears an H in the Ind. column, indicating help information is present for this ALERT. Warning Note The EXPAND command is designed to be assigned to program function keys and act as a hot-key rather than to be explicitly entered on the COMMAND line. When a help panel is associated with an ALERT, the help text member must be included the PNLLIB concatenation for the terminal session.
SET	selects a new profile to define the subset of ALERTs displayed To construct a new setup, enter a new suffix. You will be prompted for the required values.
GO	places the application into screen refresh Press the PA1 or Attention key to exit this mode.
DETAIL	displays all information associated with a particular ALERT This command requires the cursor to be placed within the text area of an ALERT.

Display of ALERTs in text format

MainView AutoOPERATOR 8.2

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