Spotlight on SAP ASE 2.12 - User Guide

Show History

This menu item lets you view the recent history for a component's default metric, or for any metric within the component.

To view the recent history for a component's default metric:

1. Right-click the component that contains the metric.

2. From the shortcut menu, choose Show History.

The invoked popup window displays a chart of the recent history of the metric. You can click and drag on a corner of the chart to change its size, and you can also choose to zoom in on a section of the chart.

To view the history of any metric within a component:

1. Right-click the component to invoke its shortcut menu.

2. Choose an item from the Show Details sub-menu to display the corresponding drilldown/

3. The drilldown may itself contain the chart(s ) you want to view, or it may lead to additional drilldowns that do. In the second case, right-click on a metric in the drilldown, and again choose an item from the Show Details sub-menu.

Note: You can choose whether to store historical data for a specified component via the Properties editor. You can set how long to keep historical data in the Console Options window.