Change Auditor 7.4 - User Guide

Overview panes

You can customize the Overview panes across the bottom of the Overview page based on your preference to display a variety of overview information about Change Auditor. By default, the Top Agent Activity and Agent Status panes display across the bottom of the Overview page. However, each of these panes has an arrow button on its heading that you can use to display different overview information.

The following overview views are available:

Within the overview panes, blue underlined numbers are hypertext links. Selecting a link displays the search results for the selected count.

Top Agent Activity

The Top Agent Activity pane displays the most active agents in your environment. That is, the agents that have forwarded the most events to the coordinator based on the date range selected. If this pane is not displayed, click the arrow on the heading of one of the lower panes and select Top Agent Activity to display this pane.

By default, the agent activity on all servers for the past month, excluding uninstalled agents, will be displayed. You can, however, use the controls located at the top of this pane to specify the types of agented objects to be included as well as the date range.

By default all agented objects are included. However, you can use the drop-down menu located in the upper left corner of this overview pane to limit the types of objects to be included:

Select this check box to include all uninstalled agents in the count. Uninstalled agents are not included by default.

By default, data will be collected for the last month. However, you can use the controls in the upper right corner of this overview pane to specify a different time interval for collecting this data.

Where: <nn> is a positive numeric value and <interval> is one of the following:

Recent Event Activity

The Recent Event Activity pane allows you to display recent activity for selected events. Click the arrow on the heading of one of the Overview panes and select Recent Event Activity to display this pane. By default, the activity for the following events are displayed in this pane:

Use the controls at the top of this pane to define the content to be included in this Overview pane.

Click Select Events to select different event classes to be displayed. Clicking this button displays the Select an Event Class dialog. Select the event classes to display and click Add to add them to the selection list.

NOTE: A maximum of 10 event classes can be selected. When you have reached this limit, the Add button is disabled preventing you from adding any additional event classes.

Use these buttons/controls to define the format used to display the information. By default, the data appears in a data grid format.

•	Use this to display the data in a bar graph. Select the Show Legend check box to include a legend for the bar graph.

NOTE: The bar graph button and Show Legend check box only appear when there is activity to report in this pane.

•	Use this to redisplay the data using the data grid format.

Count of Events By

The event counts pane displays a table listing the total number of events captured, sorted by the selected category. Click the arrow on the heading of one of the Overview panes, select Count of Events By and then select one of the following categories to display this pane:

The count by event panes include the total number of events found in the Change Auditor database based on the category selected. The counts on these panes are hypertext links, which when selected display a Search Results page showing the events associated with the selected count. However, the Search Results page only displays the associated events generated in the last year. If you want to see all of the events associated with the selected count, edit the date range to include the ‘last nn years’ in the When tab on the Search Results page.