Cisco DCNM Fundamentals Configuration Guide, Release 4.2

Viewing the Event Browser

You can use the Event Browser to view recent events and a summary chart of those events. By default, the Event Browser shows events that occurred up to 1 hour prior to starting the Cisco DCNM client. For more information, see the “Configuring the Maximum Age of Events Fetched from the Server” section.

DETAILED STEPS

To view the Event Browser, follow these steps:

Step 1 From the Feature Selector pane, choose Event Browser .

The event table appears in the Contents pane. A summary chart appears above the Feature Selector pane.

Step 2 (Optional) If you want to change the summary chart that appears, above the Feature Selector, choose one of the following Chart Type options, as needed:

• Bar Chart
• Pie Chart

The colors of the chart correspond to event severity levels, as indicated in the legend that appears above the chart.

Step 3 (Optional) If you want to sort or filter events, you can use one or more of the filtering features as described in the following table:

Step 4 (Optional) If you want to view details about a specific event, follow these steps:

a. Find the event in the event list.

b. Click the event.

c. Expand the Details pane, if necessary.

Details about the selected event appear in the Details pane.

d. (Optional) To read notes and messages about status changes to the event, read the information in the Action Log field.

Applying and Removing an Event Filter

You can filter events in the Event Browser by the following criteria:

• Event date and time—By default, the Cisco DCNM client displays all events received after you started the Cisco DCNM client and for a configurable number of hours prior to starting the Cisco DCNM client (for more information, see the “Configuring the Maximum Age of Events Fetched from the Server” section).
• Event severity—By default, the Cisco DCNM client displays events of all severities.

Note When you apply an event filter, the Events tab continues to display events when the Cisco DCNM server receives them. The filter criteria that you select only affect the Filtered Events tab.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

If the message “Filter Applied” appears at the top of the Contents pane, the Cisco DCNM client is applying an event filter to the Event Browser.

DETAILED STEPS

To apply or remove an event filter in the Event Browser, follow these steps:

Step 1 View events in the Event Browser (see the “Viewing the Event Browser” section).

Step 2 If you want to apply an event filter, follow these steps:

a. From the menu bar, choose View > Event Filter .

b. Check the Apply Filter check box.

c. Configure the filter criteria.

d. Click OK .

A Filtered Events tab appears in the Event Browser. The tab displays the events that match the filtering criteria that you specified. The message “Filter Applied” appears at the top of the Contents pane.

Step 3 If you want to remove an event filter, follow these steps:

a. From the menu bar, choose View > Event Filter .

b. Uncheck the Apply Filter check box.

c. Click OK .

The Filtered Events tab disappears. No message appears at the top of the Contents pane.

Viewing Events on an Events Tab

You can view feature-specific events on the Events tab that appears in the Details pane for a feature. By default, an Events tab shows events received up to 1 hour prior to starting the Cisco DCNM client. For more information, see the “Configuring the Maximum Age of Events Fetched from the Server” section.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Typically, the Events tab appears when, in the Summary pane, you select an object that can have events associated with it. For example, if you select Interfaces > Physical > Ethernet from the Feature Selector pane, the Summary pane displays devices. Devices contain slots, and slots contain Ethernet ports. When you select a device, slot, or port, the Details pane displays an Events tab.

What you select in the Summary pane affects which events are shown in the tab. Continuing the Ethernet interface example, the scope of the events in the Events tab depends on what you select, as follows:

• Device—Events that pertain to the selected device, any slot within the device, and any Ethernet interface within the slot.
• Slot—Events that pertain to the selected slot and to any Ethernet interface within the slot.
• Port—Events that pertain to the selected Ethernet interface.

DETAILED STEPS

To view an event on an Events tab, follow these steps:

Step 1 From the Feature Selector pane, choose the feature for which you want to view events.

For example, choose Interfaces > Physical > Ethernet .

Step 2 From the Summary pane, select an object.

The Events tab appears in the Details pane. In the Events tab, the events table appears.

Note If no Events tab appears, then Cisco DCNM cannot display events for the object you selected.

Step 3 (Optional) If you want to sort or filter events, you can use one or more of the filtering features as described in the following table:

Step 4 (Optional) If you want to view details about a specific event, follow these steps:

a. Find the event in the event list.

b. Click the event.

c. Expand the Details pane, if necessary.

Details about the selected event appear in the Details pane.

d. (Optional) To read notes and messages about status changes to the event, read the information in the Action Log field.

Changing the Status of an Event

You can change the status of an event to one of the following statuses:

• Acknowledged—Shown as a green check mark.
• Closed—Shown as a yellow folder.

By default, the status of new event is Open, which is indicated in the Annotation column by a green check mark with a red slash across it.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Select an event in the Event Browser or on an Events tab for a specific feature. For more information, see the “Viewing the Event Browser” section or the “Viewing Events on an Events Tab” section.

DETAILED STEPS

Step 1 In the event table, right-click the selected event.

Step 2 Choose Acknowledge or Open , as needed.

The new status appears in the Annotation column for the selected event.

In the Details pane, the message about the status change appears in the Action Log field.

Adding a Note to One or More Events

You can add a note to one or more events. Notes can contain 1 to 1000 characters.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Find the events to which you want to add a note. For more information, see the “Viewing the Event Browser” section or the “Viewing Events on an Events Tab” section.

DETAILED STEPS

To add a note to one or more events, follow these steps:

Step 1 Select one or more events. Do one of the following:

• To select one event, click the one event that you want to select.
• To select two or more adjacent events, click and drag across the events.
• To select two more events, press and hold Ctrl and click each event.

Step 2 On one of the selected events, right-click and then choose Add Notes .

The Notes dialog box appears.

Step 3 Enter the note. You can enter up to 1000 case-sensitive, alphanumeric characters.

Step 4 Click OK .

The note appears in the Action Log field for each selected event.

Deleting an Event

You can delete one or more events from the Event Browser or a feature-specific Events tab. A deleted event no longer appears in the Event Browser or on a feature-specific Events tab; however, the event remains in the events database.

For information about deleting old events from the events database, see the “Deleting Data from the Events Database” section.

BEFORE YOU BEGIN

Select an event in the Event Browser or on an Events tab for a specific feature. For more information, see the “Viewing the Event Browser” section or the “Viewing Events on an Events Tab” section.

DETAILED STEPS

Step 1 In the event table, select one or more events that you want to delete.

Note To select more than one event, you can click and drag across the events or you can press and hold Ctrl and click each event.

Step 2 Right-click a selected event.

Step 3 Choose Remove Event .

The selected events disappear from the Event Browser.

Events Table

The events table appears in the Event Browser and on feature-specific Events tabs.

Event Details

Event details appear below the events table in the Event Browser and on feature-specific Events tabs.