Graphical ESM View

The Graphical view of ESM is the default view in Event Source Management. In Graphical view, you can view the status of a collector and access the configuration settings of Collectors and collector related objects as a graph of connected nodes.

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By default, the Health Monitor Display frame opens in the Graphical View. The data can be displayed in seven different layouts. The default layout in graph is the "Hierarchic Left to Right" layout. You can change between these layouts by selecting the layout format from the drop-down list in the Tool Bar.

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In the Graphical View, the lines connecting the components are color-coded to indicate data flow.

The terminology used for nodes are:

The + sign before the node indicates the 'collapsed node'. In collapsed state, a node also displays the number of collapsed children next to the node; for example, WMI Connector (3). The "Children" panel of a contracted node shows the immediate children of that node, each of which can be managed in the same way as nodes in the Tabular ESM View.

Double-clicking on a parent node will change the state from collapsed to expanded and vice versa. Double-clicking on a leaf node (a node with no children) will display the status details for that node. If an additional node is added to an expanded parent with over 20 children the node will be contracted automatically.

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Click on '-' sign to collapse and double-click on '+' to expand a node.

 

NOTE: Event Source Server node do not have a + or – sign after its name even if it contains children.