Using the Platform - All Management Areas
These displays present the highest-level
summary views of alert states
for your entire system. Aggregated data
is organized by
Owners and shows all Areas, while highlighting
the most critical alert states using
color.
Data can be filtered by
Owner,
Area,
Environment and alert Metric.
Use these displays to
monitor critical alerts anywhere in your system, and investigate
those alerts in lower-level displays. Because these
displays immediately
show you any critical alert in your system, users typically
keep one of these displays open for quick monitoring. Click an Area
in the
display to
drill-down and view the selected
Area in the
Multi Area Service
Views displays.
The
All Management
Areas
displays present the same aggregated data in tabular
and heatmap formats:
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Area Heatmap:
Heatmap of
the most critical
alerts on for all Areas of your system,
with
the option to filter by Owner, Environment and
alert Metric.
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Area Table:
Table of Area Heatmap
data with
the option to filter by Owner
and Environment.
Area Heatmap
View the most
critical alert state for all monitored
instances throughout your system.
The heatmap
organizes monitored instances by
one or all
Owners for all
Areas,
and uses color to show the most critical
alert
state
in each. Consider
keeping this display open to monitor conditions in your system.
Each rectangle in the heatmap represents a
management Area (for example, Applications, Demo Systems and so forth),
which are also grouped by Owner.
The rectangle size represents the number of CIs in the rectangle; a larger size is a larger value.
Each Metric (selected from the drop-down menu) has a color gradient bar
that maps relative values to colors. Move your mouse over a rectangle to
see additional
values.
Use the drop-down menus to
filter data shown in the heatmap:
one or all Owners
and one or all
Environments. Also choose the metric to view from the alert Metric
drop-down menu:
Impact, Severity, Count and Criticality. By default, all
Owners, all Environments and the alert Impact are shown.
Drill-down and investigate by
clicking a
rectangle in the heatmap to view details for the selected Area in the Group / Service
Heatmap.

For details about display title bar functionality
and,
see Title Bar
Functionality.
Owner |
Select All Owners or a single
Owner to display in the heatmap. |
Area Names |
Display the Area (for example, Applications, Demo Systems and so
forth) in each heatmap rectangle. |
Env |
Select All
or a single Environment to display in the heatmap. |
Metric |
Select
the metric to display in the heatmap. Each Metric has a color gradient bar
that maps relative values to colors. |
Alert
Impact |
The
product of the maximum Alert Severity multiplied by the maximum
Criticality of alerts in a given heatmap rectangle. Values range
from 0 - 10, as indicated in the color gradient
bar, where 10 is the highest
Alert
Impact.
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Alert
Severity |
The
maximum level of alerts in a given heatmap rectangle. Values range from 0
- 2, as indicated in the color gradient
bar, where 2 is the highest
Alert Severity. |
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Metrics that
have exceeded their specified ALARM LEVEL threshold have an
Alert Severity value of 2. For a given
heatmap rectangle, this indicates that one or more metrics
have reached their
alert thresholds.
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Metrics that
have exceeded their specified WARNING LEVEL threshold have
an
Alert Severity value of 1. For a given
heatmap rectangle, this indicates that one or more metrics
have
reached
their warning thresholds. |
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Metrics that have not exceeded either
specified
threshold have
an
Alert Severity value of 0. For a given
heatmap rectangle, this indicates that no metrics
have
reached
their warning or alert
thresholds. |
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Alert
Count |
The
total number of critical and warning alerts in a given heatmap rectangle.
The color gradient
bar values range from
0 to the maximum count of alerts in the heatmap. The middle value in the
gradient bar indicates the average alert count. |
Criticality |
The
maximum level of Criticality (rank of importance) in a given heatmap
rectangle. Values range from 1 to 5, as indicated in the color gradient
bar, where 5 is the highest Criticality.
Criticality is specified in the
Service Data Model (CMDB) by your administrator. Criticality values are listed in the Component Views /
CI Service Table
display, which range from A to E, where A is the
highest Criticality (level 5 maps to a Criticality of
A and level 1
maps to a Criticality of E with equally spaced intermediate values). |
Area Table
This display contains the
table format of the Area Heatmap.
View
a single textual view of all alert states (alert
Impact,
Severity, Count and Criticality and CI Count)
for all Areas, Owners and
Environments. Use this
display to check
the status
of your systems by Area, Owner and Environment, and to compare
detailed metrics across all Areas in your organization.
The table lists monitored instances by
Owner and Area. Each row in the able is a
different Area (for example, Applications, Demo Systems and so forth).
The row color represents the
most critical
alert
state in each.
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One
or more alerts
exceeded their critical threshold in the
Area. |
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One
or more alerts
exceeded their warning threshold in the
Area. |
Use the drop-down menus to
filter data shown in the table: all Owners or a specific Owner, all
Environments or a
single Environment. Use the
sort button to
order column data. Drill-down and investigate by
clicking a
row in the table
to view details
for the selected Area
in the Group / Service
Table.

For details about display title bar functionality,
see Title Bar Functionality.
Owner |
Select All
Owners or a single Owner to display in the table. |
Env |
Select All
or a single Environment to display in the table. |
Area Count |
The current number
of Areas shown in the table. |
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Owner |
The name of the
person or Group the Area is designated to. |
Area
|
The name of the
Area where the alert data originated. |
Severity |
The
maximum level of alerts in the Area. Values range from 0 to
2, where 2 is the greatest
Severity. |
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One
or more alerts
exceeded their ALARM LEVEL threshold in the
Area. |
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One
or more alerts
exceeded their WARNING LEVEL threshold in the
Area. |
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No
alert thresholds have been exceeded in the Area. |
Criticality |
The
Criticality (rank of importance) specified in the Service Data Model (CMDB)
by your administrator.
Criticality values are listed in the Component Views /
CI Service Table
display, which range from A to E, where A is the
highest Criticality. This value is used to determine the value for
Alert Impact. |
Max Alert
Impact |
The highest value
that Alert Impact has had for the Area. |
Alert Count |
The total number
of critical and warning alerts for the Area. |
CI Count |
The
total number of configurable items associated with the Area. |
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