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Reusing ESM ActiveView Filters in Sentinel

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20 June 2007 - 9:04am
Submitted by: poetiker

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This solution describes how to re-use the filters created by Event Source Management, in Active Views.

1. Log into Sentinel Control Center.

Click to view.

2. Click on Event Source Management and select Live View.

Click to view.

3. Right-click on the object that you want to use for filtering in Active Views and click on Open Active View.

Click to view.

4. ESM opens an Active View that shows only the events for the object you selected.

Click to view.

5. You can now detach this window and drag it outside of the ESM window, but it will close when you close ESM.

Click to view.

6. In order to re-use the filter that ESM created for this Window in ActiveViews, note the name of the object in the view:

Click to view.

7. Go back into the Sentinel Control Center and click on the create new ActiveView button.

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8. Select the Z Axis event Attribute and click the Filter pull-down menu.

Click to view.

9. Find the filter with the same object name as the one you opened in ESM and click on Select (or double-click on it) to use it.

Click to view.

10. In the ActiveViews Wizard, click Finish.

Click to view.

Sentinel Control Center will now open up an ActiveView with the same filter as the one that was created in ESM:


Disclaimer: As with everything else at Cool Solutions, this content is definitely not supported by Novell (so don't even think of calling Support if you try something and it blows up).

It was contributed by a community member and is published "as is." It seems to have worked for at least one person, and might work for you. But please be sure to test, test, test before you do anything drastic with it.




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