RTView® EM
User Guide


Using the Platform - Service Summary Views
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hese displays present alert states at the component-level by Service in tabular and heatmap formats, while highlighting the most critical alert state. Data can be filtered by Owner, Area, Group, Service or Environment.

Use these displays to get alert details and detailed status information for a particular Service, such as a list of all the CI Types relevant to a Service and the quality of the performance metrics for each CI.

The Service Summary Views displays are: 

  • Service By CI Type: Table of alert states for a Service organized CI Type, with general alert information.
  • Service Summary: Table of CIs by Service, with detailed alert information.
  • Service Health Heatmap: Heatmap of CIs by Service, with the option to filter by Owner, Area, Group, Environment and alert Metric, and show CI Names.
  • Service Browser: Table of CIs by Service with a browser format.

Service By CI Type 
View alert states for a Service organized CI Type. See the CI Count for a Service and obtain alert statistics for CI Types such as Alert Severity and Alert Count.

Use this display to summarize alerts occurring for a Service and determine which component types are malfunctioning. View a list of all active alerts associated with the CI Type.

The upper table lists all CI Types for the selected Service with alert details such as the highest Alert Severity for the CI Type. The color of each row represents the maximum Alert Impact. The color of the Alert Severity column represents the most critical alert state for each.

  One or more alerts exceeded their critical threshold for the CI Type.
  One or more alerts exceeded their warning threshold for the CI Type.
  No alerts exceeded a threshold for the CI Type.

Select a row for a CI Type that has an active alert (the Alert Severity is red or yellow) to view the active alerts in the lower table. Double-click a row to view a detailed list of CIs associated with the CI Type in the Service Summary display. In the lower table, each row is a different alert for a CI that is associated with the CI Type selected from the upper table.

Filter display content by Owner, Area, Group, Service and Environment. Click the column header to sort column data.

For details about display title bar functionality, see Title Bar Functionality.

Owner Select an Owner to display in the table.
Area Select an Area to display in the table.
Group Select a Group to display in the table.
Service Select a Service to display in the table.
Env Select All or a single Environment to display in the table.
 
Service Name The name of the Service currently shown in the table.
CI Count The total number of configurable items associated with the selected Service
PROD The number of CI instances associated with the Service in production environments.
DEV The number of CI instances associated with the Service in development environments.
DR The number of CI instances associated with the Service in the DR environment.
UAT The number of CI instances associated with the Service in the UAT environment.
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 Severity The highest Alert Severity value of any CI associated with the selected Service.
Max Impact The highest Alert Impact value of any CI associated with the selected Service.
All CIs Opens the Service Summary display.
 
(CIType Table) This table lists all CI Types for the selected Service. Each row in the table is a CI Type. Click a row to view details in the lower table about alerts associated with the CI Type. Double-click a row to drill-down to Service Summary display describing alert details relevant to this CI Type.
CIType The type of CI.
CI Count The total number of configurable items associated with the CI Type.
Alert Severity Shows the most critical alert state for the CIs associated with the CI Type.
  One or more alerts for the CIs associated with the CI Type have exceeded the Critical threshold.
  One or more alerts for the CIs associated with the CI Type have exceeded the Warning threshold.
  No alerts for the CIs associated with the CI Type have exceeded a threshold.
Alert Count The total number of active alerts for the CIs associated with the CI Type.
Quality Shows whether performance metrics are being received from the CIs associated with the CI Type.
  One or more performance metrics are not being received from the CIs associated with the CI Type.
  All performance metrics are being received from he CIs associated with the CI Type.
Quality Count Shows the number of CIs for that CI Type that have a known state. It displays all when that number is the total count of CI's.
  One or more performance metrics are not being received from the CIs associated with the CI Type.
  All performance metrics are being received from the CIs associated with the CI Type.
 
Alerts Table This table lists all alerts for CIs associated with the CI Type selected. Each row in the table is an alert. For details about table column data, see Alerts Table.
Selected CI Type The CI Type selected from the upper table.
All CI Types Shows all active alerts for all CIs associated with the CI Type selected.

 


Service Summary 
View alert states at the component-level per Service, and obtain component details such as the number of active alerts for the component, what operating system the component uses and the Data Server associated with the component.

Use this display to monitor a Service in a specific Group or Environment anywhere in your organization, and determine whether a component is malfunctioning.

The table lists all components for a selected Service. Each row in the able is a different CI (configurable item or component). The row color represents the most critical alert state in each.

  One or more alerts exceeded their critical threshold in the Area.
  One or more alerts exceeded their warning threshold in the Area.

Filter table content by Owner, Area, Group, Service or Environment. Use the sort button to order column data.

For details about display title bar functionality, see Title Bar Functionality.

Owner Select an Owner to display in the table.
Area Select an Area to display in the table.
Group Select a Group to display in the table.
Service Select a Service to display in the table.
Env Select All or a single Environment to display in the table.
 
Service Name The name of the Service currently shown in the table.
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.
CI Count The total number of configurable items associated with the selected Service
PROD The number of CI instances associated with the Service in production environments.
DEV The number of CI instances associated with the Service in development environments.
DR The number of CI instances associated with the Service in the DR environment.
UAT The number of CI instances associated with the Service in the UAT environment.
 
CI Table for Selected Environment This table lists all CIs for the selected Environment. Each row in the table is a CI. Each CI can have multiple alerts. Click a row to view details about any alerts associated with the CI in the lower table. Double-click a row to drill-down to a summary page describing information relevant to this CI. This action can also be performed by selecting (a single click) on a row and selecting the Go to CI button.
CI Type Filter Select a CI Type to display in the table or select All CI Types.
Go to CI Drill-down to a summary page describing information relevant to this CI.
CIType The type of CI.
CIName The name or address of the CI.
Quality Shows whether performance metrics are being received from the CI.
  Performance metrics are not being received from the CI.
  Performance metrics are being received from the CI.
Severity Shows the most critical alert state for the selected CI.
  One or more alerts for the CI have exceeded the Critical threshold.
  One or more alerts for the CI have exceeded the Warning threshold.
  No alerts for the CI have exceeded a threshold.
Alerts The number of currently active alerts for the selected CI. 
Region The name of the Region for the CI.
SiteName The name of the Site for the CI.
OSType The operating system currently running on the CI.
City The name of the City for the CI.
Country The name of the Country for the CI.
Data Server The name of the Data Server with which the CI is associated.
 
Alerts Table This table lists all alerts for the selected Service.  Each row in the table is an alert. For details about table column data, see Alerts Table.
Selected CI For the CI selected from the upper table: Type of CI / Name of CI. This field is automatically populated if you want to filter the alerts by selecting to see only the alerts raised for a particular CI.
All Click to show all alerts for a Service in the CI Table.  
Opens the Alerts Table in a separate window. 

 


Service Health Heatmap
View heatmap of alert states for CIs associated with a Service.

The heatmap organizes CIs by the Service selected. Each rectangle in the heatmap represents a CI (for example, localhost-14). 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: a different Owner, Area, Group or Service, one or all Environments, as well as the alert Metric. By default, Alert Impact metrics are shown. Optionally show CI Names.

For details about display title bar functionality, see Title Bar Functionality.

Owner Select an Owner to display in the heatmap.
Area Select an Area to display in the heatmap.
Group Select a Service to display in the heatmap.
Service Select a Group to display in the heatmap.
CIs The total number of configurable items.
Env Select one or all Environments to display in the heatmap.
 
CI Names Display the CI names in each heatmap rectangle.
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 highest Alert Impact value for any alert associated with CIs in a given rectangle.  Values range from 0 - 10, as indicated in the color gradient bar, where 10 is the highest Alert Impact.

The Alert Impact is calculated for each CI, which is the product of the CI Criticality times the current maximum Alert Severity.

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.
  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.
 
  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.
 
  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.
 
Alert Count The total number of critical and warning alerts in a given heatmap rectangle. The color gradient bar, populated by the current heatmap, shows the value/color mapping. The numerical values in the gradient bar range from 0 to the maximum count of alerts in the heatmap. The middle value in the gradient bar indicates the average alert count.
Max 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).

 


Service Browser
View alert states at the component-level per Service, and obtain component details such as the number of active alerts for the component, what operating system the component uses and the Data Server associated with the component.

Use this display to monitor a Service in a specific Group or Environment anywhere in your organization, and determine whether a component is malfunctioning.

The table lists all components for a selected Service. Each row in the able is a different CI (configurable item or component). The row color represents the most critical alert state in each.

  One or more alerts exceeded their critical threshold in the Area.
  One or more alerts exceeded their warning threshold in the Area.
  No alerts exceeded their thresholds in the Area.

Filter table content by Owner, Area, Group, Service or Environment. Use the sort button to order column data.

For details about display title bar functionality, see Title Bar Functionality.

Owner Select an Owner to display in the table.
Area Select an Area to display in the table.
Group Select a Group to display in the table.
Service Select a Service to display in the table.
Env Select All or a single Environment to display in the table.
 
CI Count The total number of configurable items listed in the table.
CI Table This table lists all CIs associated with the selected Service. Each row in the table is a CI.
CIName The name or address of the CI.
CIType The type of CI.
Quality Shows whether performance metrics are being received from the CI.
  Performance metrics are not being received from the CI.
  Performance metrics are being received from the CI.
Severity The maximum level of alerts for the CI. Values range from 0 to 2, where 2 is the greatest Alert Severity.
  One or more alerts exceeded their ALARM LEVEL threshold for the CI.
  One or more alerts exceeded their WARNING LEVEL threshold for the CI.
  No alert thresholds have been exceeded for the CI.
Alerts The total number of critical and warning alerts for the CI.
Region The name of the Region for the CI.
SiteName The name of the Site for the CI.
OSType The operating system currently running on the CI.
City The name of the City for the CI.
Country The name of the Country for the CI.
Data Server The name of the Data Server the CI is associated with.
 
Selected CI The CIType and CIName of the selected CI.
Go to CI Opens the relevant Summary display for the selected CI.

 

 

 
 
 
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