System Availability window

This topic describes the System Availability window in IBM Director.

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File
Export Availability Report
Export HTML Report
Saves the current report as a series of HTML and GIF files to a directory on the console machine. Time changes and system selections made in the tree view will be reflected in the report. Detached views are not part of the exported report.

To save the graphs as GIF files, System Availability creates a temporary copy of the graph in another window. This window may appear momentarily.

System Availability prompts whether you would like to open the report now. If you select to open the report now, the default browser is launched, outside of System Availability, to show the report. System Availability provides this feature only on Windows systems

The export function prompt for a directory to place the files. Because there are multiple files produced on HTML export, the option for naming the individual files is not provided. It is recommended that you select different directories to save different reports.

Export XML Report
System Availability provides XML report export capabilities that includes all the details from the System Availability report. This is to allow other XML users to gain access to the data and provide the data in a standardized format. Validity checking is not provided. Exporting the file will overwrite any existing file located in the directory. When a file instead of a directory is chosen to export reports, the parent directory of the selected file will be the destination directory.
Set Time
Allows you to customized the Information window to display data within a defined interval. All the data will be processed for the time frame chosen for Set Time - including events starting just before or ending just after this time frame.
Settings
Displays the Settings window which allows you define preferences for problematic systems.
Only look for outages in the paste: day(s)
Indicates the number of days prior that you want to scan for problematic systems. The default is 30 days. The time frame is based off the time on the agent.
Use all available data
When the check box is selected, all the availability data reported by the agent is reviewed.
Amount of unplanned outages great or equals:
Indicates the number of unplanned outages that can occur before the system is marked as problematic. The default is 1.
Percentage
When this check box is selected the unplanned outage field changes to a percentage of time that the system can be down for an unplanned outage before the system is marked as problematic.
report stale data in: day(s)
Indicates the number of days that the system can report stale data, before marking the system as problematic.
Print
Prints what is currently displayed in the work area. When you print graphs, the tool tip and detail information about the graphs is not printed. You can use Export to generate a hardcopy of any information that is not available through Print.
View
Detach View
Detaches the current tabbed selection of the Information window. The detached information window can be moved around the desktop independently of the System Availability task or the IBM Director Console.  Detached windows remain a static copy of the graph and will not be changed by changing selections on the Tree View.
Distribution of System Outages
Displays a pie chart representing the percentage of all system downtime.
Distribution of System Uptime
Displays a pie chart representing the percentage of all system uptime.
Availability Report
Provides a snapshot of system availability. It provides measurements for the currently selected systems in the Tree View (or all systems if the root of the tree is selected).
System Outages by Day of Week
Displays a bar chart measuring the frequency of outages by day of week, with planned and unplanned outages differentiated.
System Outages by Hour of Day
Displays a bar chart measuring the frequency of outages by hour of the day, with planned and unplanned outages differentiated.

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display options
Distribution of System Outages
Displays a pie chart representing the percentage of all system downtime.
Distribution of System Uptime
Displays a pie chart representing the percentage of all system uptime.
System Outages by Day of Week
Displays a bar chart measuring the frequency of outages by day of week, with planned and unplanned outages differentiated.
System Outages by Hour of Day
Displays a bar chart measuring the frequency of outages by hour of the day, with planned and unplanned outages differentiated.

Fields

Tree structure
Displays managed systems to work with.
Right pane
The information window that displays a graph or a report of system availability.

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