What's new: Monitors

Find out about the new and changed monitor functions.

Graph history

• You can now save a screen capture of the Graph History or the Systems Monitor window, or just the graph to your local drive. Select File > Save Window As, File > Save Graph As.

• You can print your graphs from the Graph History or the Systems Monitor window. You can print the entire window, or just the graph. Select File > Print.

• The System Monitor has the ability to link all of the displayed graphs together. When you select this option, all of the graphs that make up the monitor are coordinated in terms of the time-slice shown and the scroll position of the graph. If you scroll to one position in a graph, all of the graphs in the monitor simultaneously scroll to that same position. Select View > Coordinate Graphs.

• You can drag and drop the graphs in the Systems Monitor window into any visual configuration that you want, or resize the window. When you close the Systems Monitor window, the size and positions of the graphs are saved in that configuration the next time that you open the window.

• You can change the colors of the lines on the graph using a menu option on the Graph History or Systems Monitor window. Select View > Set Monitor Colors.

• The Graph History window now displays the graph history status. You also can re-create the graph history data if it is missing.

For more information, see Graph history.

System Monitor

Exclude heavily utilized communication lines, such as fax lines, from the system monitor graph. For example, when you have two communication line utilization metrics, the average of all of the communication lines is plotted. Thus, if there are one or more lines that you do not want to include in the average, such as a line that is heavily loaded because of fax traffic, you can optionally exclude these lines. For instructions on how to do this, use the online help for System Monitors.

From the System Monitors Properties window, click Help. From the Help window, click Help Topics. From the Management Central Help Topics window, click Contents > How To > System Monitors > Excluding communication lines from a system monitor.

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