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From eDirectory release of 8.8 SP3 onwards, eDirectory iMonitor users have to enable the event statistics settings in order to view the iMonitor event statistics summary. This cool solution will let users know how to enable / disable events, to view the event trace and to view the event summary through eDirectory (post 8.8 SP2) iMonitor.

Enabling Event Statistics through iMonitor:

1. Click the 'nds iMonitor' Link on the left top corner
   
   

   Click to view.

2. In that page under the tab "NDS iMonitor Configuration", enable the "Advanced Mode
   (possibly dangerous)" option and click 'submit'.
   (Please mind that this is not advisable as some of the administrator setting might changed here)
   

   Click to view.

3. Click on 'Agent Configuration' on the left side.
4. Again on the left side click 'Permanent Settings' link
5. Now on the left side, under "Permanent Settings" link, click 'change'
6. On the right side, under "Parameter Options" tab, select the "EVENT STATISTICS ENABLE" type from the drop down box, click on the boolean value 'True” and click 'save'
   
   

   Click to view.

7. Go to 'Trace Configuration' -> Under 'Trace', click the link "Event Configuration"
8. Select the events you want to monitor that through the check boxes against each event on the right side.
   
   

   Click to view.

9. Click update at the bottom of the page. If you want to get the traces of those events click "Trace On" button as well at the bottom of the page.
10. Do the operations against the eDirectory Server.
11. If you have opted for getting the traces, click the 'Trace Live' on the left side -> click "Refresh On" and view the live trace of the events happening.
    
    

    Click to view.

12. Also you can view the event summary which tells you how many times the event has happened etc as follows:
    1. Click "Agent Activity" on the left side
    2. Under the "Events" tab, click "Statistics". This will show the summary of the event statistics.
       
       

       Click to view.

Disabling Event Statistics through iMonitor:

1. Click the 'nds iMonitor' Link on the left top corner
2. In that page under the tab "NDS iMonitor Configuration", enable the "Advanced Mode
   (possibly dangerous)" option and click 'submit'.
   (Please mind that this is not advisable as some of the administrator setting might changed here)
3. Click on 'Agent Configuration' on the left side.
4. Again on the left side click 'Permanent Settings' link
5. Now on the left side, under "Permanent Settings" link, click 'change'
6. On the right side, under "Parameter Options" tab, select the "EVENT STATISTICS ENABLE" type from the drop down box, click on the boolean value 'False' and click 'save'
   
   

   Click to view.

Disabling the advanced mode through iMonitor:

1. Click the 'nds iMonitor' Link on the left top corner
2. In that page under the tab "NDS iMonitor Configuration", disable the "Advanced Mode (possibly dangerous)" option and click 'submit'.
   
   

   Click to view.

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.