Cisco Element Manager System

Document ID: 24810

Questions

• Events displayed in the Event Browser have their messages truncated. Is this just a display problem, or is the internal message truncated? This is important for clear correlation, since some rules rely on matching part/all of the message.
• How can I change the width of the Event Browser's columns?

Q. Events displayed in the Event Browser have their messages truncated. Is this just a display problem, or is the internal message truncated? This is important for clear correlation, since some rules rely on matching part/all of the message. (Products affected : CEMF 2.x and 3.x)

A. The Event Browser displays only the first line of a long description. Arbitrary length (multi line) alarm messages can be stored, and the browser displays the first line truncated to whatever size is specified in the .ini file - the default is 120 characters.

Q. How can I change the width of the Event Browser's columns? (Products affected : CEMF 3.x)

A. The Event Browser columns can be re-sized by changing the column length settings in the <CEMFROOT>/config/init/eventBrowser.ini file. These are set by default as follows:

 [browserHeader] 
 clearLen = 5 
 ackLen = 5 
 coreObjectLen = 60 
 timeLen = 28 
 severityLen = 12 
 descriptionLen = 120 
 

To change the length of the Object Name column, for example, alter the default value of 60 to an appropriate value. The eventBrowser process must be restarted in order to reflect the change. Any of the columns may be resized in this way, although it is not advisable to resize the clear and ack columns.

Related Information

• CEMF Knowledge Base