Creating a task to Monitor Workstations
How you can create a Monitor Workstations task.
About this task
Note: For all the
details about options and fields displayed in the panels, see the online help by clicking the
question mark located at the top-right corner of each panel.
Procedure
- In the navigation bar, click Monitoring and
Reporting > Workload Monitoring >
Monitor Workload and follow the steps described
in Monitoring your objects in the plan.
If you are familiar with conman, in the Query text box specify a query based on the conman showcpus syntax. Alternatively, click Edit to select the filter criteria from the list of options that is displayed.
- In the General Filter section, specify
some broad filtering criteria to limit the results retrieved by your query. Here you start refining
the scope of your query by also considering the amount of information you want to retrieve.
Optionally, in some of the results tables in the Periodic Refresh Options section, you can customize
how often to refresh the information by specifying the refresh interval in seconds in hh:mm:ss
format, with a minimum of 30 seconds and a maximum of 7200 seconds. For example, 00:01:10 means 70
seconds. If the value specified is not valid, the last valid value is automatically used. If the
periodic refresh is enabled for a task, when the task runs, the refresh time control options are
shown in the results table. You can also set or change the periodic refresh interval directly in the
results table when the timer is in stop status. In this case, the value specified at task creation
time is temporarily overwritten.
You can filter the task results based on the workstation
and domain names, or part of names (using wildcard characters). 
You can filter the task results
based on the workstation types and reporting attributes. - In the Columns Definition section, select the information
you want to display in the table containing the query results. According
to the columns you choose here, the corresponding information is displayed
in the task results table. For example, for all the objects resulting
from your query, you might want to see their link statuses, domains,
and type, or you might want to see their statuses and the number of
jobs successful or running on them. You can then drill down into this
information displayed in the table and navigate it. In the Columns Definition section, not only can you select the columns for this task results, but you can also specify the columns for secondary queries on:
- jobs, job streams domains, files, and resources.
For example, you are creating a task to search for all the workstations
of a domain. From the resulting list of workstations, you can navigate
to see (secondary query) a list of all the jobs running on each of
them.
- jobs. For example, you are
creating a task to search for all the virtual workstations that are
also fault-tolerant. From the resulting list of workstations, you
can navigate to see (secondary query) a list of all the jobs running
on each of them.