Spotlight Basics describes how Spotlight applications work. It contains these sections:
Section |
Description |
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Spotlight Connections |
Create / Modify / Delete connections to systems, and monitor those systems. |
Monitor Spotlight Connections | Monitor connections, detect alarms, investigate the cause of alarms. |
Alarms |
Alarms are the warnings that Spotlight raises when a metric falls outside its "normal" range of values. |
Charts, Grids and Home Page Components | Spotlight displays provide detailed statistics of the monitored system, relevant to diagnosing the cause of alarms. Make the best use of them. |
View | Options | Customize Spotlight. |
Troubleshooting | Solve problems using Spotlight. |
Use the Spotlight browser to view the details of your Spotlight connections. The browser contains a number of connection groups, each of which can be opened by clicking on its bar within the browser:
Option |
Description |
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View Spotlight's introductory page and web pages of interest to Spotlight users. | |
View the Spotlight connections currently being monitored by Spotlight. | |
All connections | View all Spotlight connections (open or closed). The connections are displayed in tree form with connection types as the topmost branches, and individual connections as the child branches of each type. |
History Browser |
View historical snapshots for the current Spotlight connection. Note: The History Browser may be hidden until you select View | History browser. |
Notes:
Welcome to Spotlight is the first page you see when you start Spotlight. New Spotlight users can use this page to discover and experiment with various Spotlight features.
Action | Description | ||||||||||||
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Open the Welcome to Spotlight page | From the Spotlight Browser, select Welcome to Spotlight | Welcome to Spotlight. | ||||||||||||
Open web pages of interest to Spotlight users |
From the Spotlight Browser, select Welcome to Spotlight | Spotlight on the Web | Web Site. Toolbar buttons on Spotlight on the Web
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View the Spotlight connections that are currently monitored by Spotlight.
Action |
Description |
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Select / Click the connection |
The Spotlight menus and toolbar adjust to the selected connection. The last viewed page for this connection opens. Note: The name of the connection takes on the color of the most urgent severity now active for the connection. Spotlight Alarms |
Right click | view |
Sort the list of connections:
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Right click | Disconnect | Stop monitoring this connection. |
Right click | Browse History | Open the History browser for the connection. View snapshots of the system as it operated in the past. History Browser |
Right click | View Alarm Log | View the Alarm log for the connection. Alarm log |
Right click | View Alarms by Time | View Alarms by Time for the connection. Alarms by Time |
Right click | Properties |
View properties for the connection.
Note: Most fields cannot be modified while the connection is open. |
Notes:
To stop monitoring a connection, select the connection and click File | Disconnect.
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