Refresh Every setting and icons

Specifies the interval (in minutes) with which the data displayed in the Alarms Dashboard is refreshed. When this interval elapses, the dashboard Suite-wide unified dashboard that provides a single, quick view of valuable information across multiple applications. refreshes the display with the latest active alarm data stored in the Framework Database Server role in the Data Center (also known as BPMain) that stores user, organization and group data, including user preferences and security data (roles, permissions, and license information)..

By default, the Alarms Dashboard is refreshed every 60 seconds.

You can click the Refresh icon to refresh the display instantly rather than waiting for the refresh interval to elapse.

If you select the No Refresh setting, the display refreshes only when you click the Refresh icon.

To see the status of configuration changes the Enterprise Manager application is processing, click this icon.

For information about how the Enterprise Manger handles configuration changes, see the “Architecture and Technical Concepts” chapter of the Enterprise Manager Configuration and Administration Guide.

To export every active alarm to a text file, click this icon . Use the web browser features to save the exported text file to a local or network directory.

The exported text file is tab-delimited. To view a spreadsheet containing the list of active alarms, and the alarm attributes associated with each active alarm, open the text file in Microsoft Excel .

Use this feature in troubleshooting or other scenarios where it is useful to capture every currently active alarm in the system in a spreadsheet.

Enterprise Alarms pane fields

Alarms Filtered icon - This icon displays next to the Enterprise Alarms heading when you configure Filter options and click the Filter button to apply them. The icon indicates that the dashboard displays a filtered list of active alarms rather than all active alarms.

Maximize/Minimize icon - To maximize the Enterprise Alarms pane, click this icon . To minimize the pane, click this icon .

Shows the priority (or severity level) of the alarm.

A color-coded icon containing an exclamation point indicates each priority level.

The default priority levels are listed here in order of their severity. By default, the alarms display in the Enterprise Alarms pane order of their severity (with Major alarms at the top).

• Major - Address these alarms immediately. If a major alarm is not addressed, the system fails either partially or completely.

• Minor - Review these alarms and take action if necessary. Minor alarms often indicate problems that are self-correcting, or that do not have a significant impact on system performance.

• Warning - Address these alarms in a timely manner. A Warning alarm indicates that the system is functioning, but likely not at an optimum level.

• Information - These alarms provide important status information but do not require any action by the administrator.

Shows the unique numeric identifier of an alarm.

Shows the Alarm Name as it appears in the user interface.

Note: Each alarm also has an internal alarm name, which is different from the Alarm Name that displays in the user interface. The internal alarm name is used by internal components of the alarm system and appears in log files.

Shows the number of servers on which an alarm exists.

The Servers column does not display if the Show Desktop Alarms filter option is selected.

Shows the number of desktop systems on which an alarm exists.

The Desktops column displays only when the Show Desktop Alarms filter option is selected.

Shows the total number of instances of an alarm on all servers or desktops in the enterprise.

Lists the date and time at which the most recent instance of the alarm was triggered.

The time displays in the local time Time axis in the system that refers to the time on the clock in the location where the operation occurred. zone of the user viewing the Alarms Dashboard.

Displays the software component that triggered the most recent instance of the alarm.