Creating a task to Monitor Domains
Why and how you can create a Monitor Domains task.
About this task
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Procedure
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In the navigation toolbar, click 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 showdomains 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 domain name, or part of name (using wildcard characters). You can also configure the automatic refresh of the task results in the table.
- 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. You can then drill down into this information displayed in the table and navigate it. In the Columns Definition panel, not only can you select the columns for this task results, but you can also specify the columns for secondary queries on workstations. Starting from the Monitor Domains task table of result, you can start further queries on the workstations associated to one of the domains in the table; the information to be retrieved with these secondary queries is specified in this panel.