Understanding the View Builder

The View Builder provides a mechanism through which you can create a view to display information from the agents that have instrumented SNMP MIBs and traps sent by the agent to the Management Site Server. You can use the View Builder to create views in addition to those available in Novell ConsoleOne. These views are displayed as text, tables and graphs.

You can associate the views to specific nodes and manage them.

To launch the View Builder dialog box:

1. In Novell ConsoleOne, select Tools > View Builder.

   
   

   • Defined Views: Lists the views created.

   • View Name: The name of the view.

   • Description: The description of the view.

   • Add: Click . Launches the Basic Configuration dialog box. You can create the view components in this dialog box.

   • Edit: Click to edit the view details.

   • Delete: Click to delete the view.

   • Export: Click to export a view to a file.

   • Import: Click to import a view from a file.

2. In the View Builder dialog box, click .

   The View Builder - Basic Configuration dialog box is displayed.

   
   

   A view can contain view components or a combination of view components. The view components you can create are: Name-Value Pairs view, Alarm View, Table View, and Graph View.

3. Perform any of the following operations:

   • Creating a Name-Value Pairs View Component
   • Creating an Alarm View Component
   • Creating a Table View Component
   • Creating a Graph View Component
   • Setting the Criteria for the View to Appear

4. Click OK.