Save To File
To save the chart or grid
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Open the Save As dialog.
Toolbar Menu Shortcut Click Right click the chart or grid data and select Save As....
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Use the controls in the Save As... window to specify where (and in which format) to save the chart or grid.
Control Description File name
Type the name of the file that to save the chart or grid to.
Save as type
Select the file type.
- For charts, the choices include bitmap image, Windows metafile image, and comma-delimited text file.
- For grids, the choices include formatted text file and comma-delimited text file.
Text encoding
Choose the text encoding to use when saving the file.
- ANSI, the default choice, supports only the character set used by Western European languages. Unsupported characters are converted to question marks.
- UNICODE (UTF-16) is the 16-bit version of the Universal Character Set Transformation Format. This format is maintained by the Unicode Consortium (http://www.unicode.org/), and provides the basis for processing, storage and interchange of text data in any language.
- UNICODE (UTF-8) is the 8-bit version of the Universal Character Set Transformation Format.
To print a Spotlight home page or the current drilldown
Select File | Print.
To set print options
- Select File | Page Setup.
- Set how Spotlight windows are to be printed. The results of the choices you make are shown in the Preview pane of the window.
- If required, click Printer... to select the printer to use when printing Spotlight pages.
To view a print preview
- Select File | Print Preview.
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Use the toolbar at the top of the Print Preview window to adjust display settings.
Button...
Description...
Print
Send this page to the printer.
Page setup
Choose how you want to print the contents of the page.
Show one page
Show multiple pages
Choose how to view the preview.
Zoom
Choose how much you want to magnify the print preview to get a clear look at page details. Alternatively, move the mouse pointer over the print image, and click to magnify the image.
Close
Close the Print Preview window.
Component Properties - Overhead Page
Spotlight components are visual objects on the Spotlight home page and in Spotlight drilldowns that correspond to important features of the system to which Spotlight is connected. You can set the options that affect the behavior and display of Spotlight components.
Note: You can set overhead properties for the Spotlight connection as a whole. Connection Properties - Overhead Page
To set the overheads for a Spotlight component
- Right click the component and select Properties | Overhead
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Select from the Refresh setting list how often Spotlight will collect data for the category of which this Spotlight component is a member.
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Refresh setting |
Description |
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Refresh at the default rate |
Spotlight data is refreshed as per the definition in Spotlight Options. Set the rate at which data is collected Note: In most cases (but not all) this will be at the foreground rate when the component is visible and the background rate when the component is not visible. |
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Always refresh at the foreground rate |
Always refresh at the foreground rate, whether the data is displayed or not. |
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Refresh only while data is displayed on the screen |
Refresh data at the foreground rate when it is visible in the Spotlight window. |
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Do not refresh data in this category |
The data is never collected. Spotlight displays one of the following icons on components that display this category of data:
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Data for this control is not available. (There are no alarms associated with this control.)
Data for this control is not available. (Alarms associated with the control are disabled.)
View | Options
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. |