Instruction Manual

OEM Windows
OEM User’s Guide—520330-001
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Navigating to Client Applications
Navigating to Client Applications
The OEM Server gives you access to active client applications so that you can view
detailed information on objects and their states. To navigate to the client that reported a
particular object, click the object in the Alerts window. An Alert message is sent to the
associated client and that client then provides detailed information about the object’s
state and history.
Closing the Alerts Window
To close the Alerts window, choose Close from the View menu, or click the close box.
The Max Alerts Window
The Max Alerts window is similar to the Alerts window, except that it only contains
information on objects whose state is equal to the highest reported state in the OEM
database. For example, if the highest state of any object in the OEM database is 7, the
Max Alerts window contains only objects whose state is equal to 7. These objects are
sorted by object name. The Max Alerts window allows you to quickly view the list of
monitored objects in your network that need the most immediate attention.
By default, the Max Alerts window displays a list of all objects contained in the OEM
database whose state is equal to the highest reported state. However, enterprise
management frameworks can limit this to a subset of objects by supplying a filter string
on Max Alert callbacks. If such a filter is supplied, the OEM compares the states of all
objects that match the filter and displays only the object or objects with the highest state
value. For example, if an enterprise management framework supplies the filter
\NewYork\DISK, only the disk drive or drives on \NewYork with the highest state value
are displayed in the Max Alerts window.
One object can have multiple entries in the OEM database if it is reported on by more
than one client application. If these multiple entries have the same state value, and the
state values are equal to the maximum reported state, each of the multiple entries
appears in the Max Alerts window.
Opening a Max Alerts Window
You can open a Max Alerts window using any of the following methods:
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Right-click the OEM icon in the system tray and choose Max Alerts from the
menu.
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From an OEM Alerts window View menu, choose Max Alerts.
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From an enterprise management framework menu, choose Max Alerts.
In this case, a Max Alerts window is created only if more than one object is at the
highest state. If a single object is at the highest state, the OEM automatically sends a
Max Alert message to the client application that reported that object.