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This section includes the following topics:
- About the Precise bar
- Tasks common to most tabs
- About the Alerts user interface
- Launching Alerts
- Alerts user interface elements
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The Precise bar enables you to keep track of where you have been and provides various controls. The following table below describes the function of each of the toolbar buttons.
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 | Back | During a work session, keeps track of where you have navigated to. The Back button enables you to navigate between previously visited views. The Back control displays your previous view. |
 | Forward | Enables you to navigate to the next view. This button is only enabled if you clicked Back or if you chose a history option. |
 | Stop | Stops a request for information from the server. |
 | Refresh | Updates the data currently displayed. |
 | Home | Navigates to the highest level entity, usually the instance or tier (all instances). The time frame settings remain the same. |
 | Send | Opens new email message in your email program with the link to the current application in context. |
 | Help | Opens the online help in context. |
 | Favorites | Enables you to add or remove favorites in your Favorites list. |
 | Settings | Lets you configure process availability settings. |
 | AdminPoint | Launches Precise AdminPoint. |
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The following tasks are commonly performed in most tabs:
- Switching to a different tab
- Determining which table columns to display
- Copying data to the clipboard
- Exporting to Precise Custom Portal
- Adding, viewing, and deleting Favorites
- Sending an email message
Switching to a different tab
You can easily switch between the different tabs using the Tab Selection bar. When you start your Precise product, the Dashboard tab opens by default. For other Precise products, another tab will open by default. The button of the selected tab is displayed in orange.
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- Click a button on the Tab Selection bar to display information on the selected entity in a different tab.
Determining which table columns to display
Tables are used to display information about a set of related entities. It is possible to determine which columns to display in the area tables.
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2. In the Table columns dialog box, click the arrows to move the names of the columns that you want to display to the Visible box and the ones that you do not want to display to the Invisible box.
3. Click OK.
Copying data to the clipboard
At times you may want to save data displayed in the table area in a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet for further analysis. To copy data displayed in the table to the clipboard
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2. Open a Microsoft Excel spreadsheet and choose Paste from the Edit menu.
Exporting to Precise Custom Portal
The Export to Precise Custom Portal Portlet feature enables you to export the view of the chosen table or graph and generate a portlet with that view in Precise Custom Portal, so that it will provide you with another way of monitoring your application.
Prerequisites
To be able to use this feature, you need to have the following rights in Precise:
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If you do not have sufficient rights, you will get an error message when trying to execute this feature.
Exporting the information
You can either export a table view or a graph view.
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3. Insert a name in the name field that clearly describes the graph view.
4. Click OK.
Adding, viewing, and deleting Favorites
The Favorites feature allows you to save a specific location in your application and to retrieve the same location later without having to navigate to it.
About the Favorites feature
The new Favorites feature includes the following options:
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• Auto Naming – The Favorites dialog generates item names based on the current location.
UI description
An Add/Delete Favorites option under the Favorites menu allows you to save the current location or delete an existing one.
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NOTE The favorite address is displayed in the Address field and cannot be edited.
Sending an email message
You can send an email message to one or more recipients from the Precise toolbar. The default subject for the message will be “Link to a Precise application”.
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2. Fill in the required fields and click Send.
About the Alerts user interface
Alerts is a Web-based application. This means that you do not need to install any special software on your desktop to use Alerts. Instead, the application opens in a normal browser window.
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Although Alerts opens in a browser window it is important to understand that it is an application rather than a Web site. To perform activities within Alerts, you must use the Alerts controls, not the ones of your browser. You should not open information in a New Window, and you should not use the Back or Refresh hot-keys. Instead, use the Precise bar.
Launching Alerts
You launch Alerts from the Application screen or by selecting the Alerts tab on the Dashboard screen. From the Alerts screen, you can view alerts from Application level down to metrics level. Each of these alert levels helps you to isolate the causes of the alerts in the monitored application.
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The following figure shows an example of the information displayed when you open the Alerts tab for the first time.
Figure 2-1 Alerts Tab
Tab Selection
Alerts tree Precise bar
Metric Value area
Alerts user interface elements
The Alerts user interface consists of one main screen from which you can access the various alerts.
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• Instance level.
• Metric level.
The right side of the main screen provides details of the alerts according to the element selected in the tree on the left side of the screen as follows:
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■ Alerts Summary
■ Alert Occurrences
AppTier level AppTier alerts listing:
■ Alerts Summary
■ Alert Occurrences
Instance level Instance alerts listing all alert instances
Metric level Details of the instances of the alert including the following details:
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■ Alert value
■ What to do next
About the Tab heading
The Tab heading provides information about the refresh status. It contains the following:
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The Auto-Refresh is Off by default in the Metrics tab of the Tier tab, because this tab is used for further investigation of specific metrics.
About the Metric status legend
The metric status legend contains icons that indicate the different alert statuses. The table below describes the status icons.
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See “About editing metric properties” on page 24.
About the Alerts tree
The Alerts tree displays the highest alerts in the Tier level, thus simplifying the identification of exceeding metrics.
About Alert metrics
The right side of the Alerts tab displays the following information according to the element selected in the Tiers tree.
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• Instance Alerts
• Metric Details
All Application Alerts
The table below describes the details displayed in the All Application Alerts table that is displayed when you select the application in the Alerts tree.
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Set Indicates the metric set.
Table 2-4 Metric Alert Occurrences
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user-triggered samples (Resamples) from that history period.
You can display the bar either in absolute values or relational values (percentage of the total alerts) by clicking the rectangle in the column header.
You can modify the history period through the Settings dialog box.
Application Level Metrics
Lists the Application level metrics for all applications. In version 9.5 the only Application level metric is Long Running transactions. The details shown on this page are the same as those show for Instance Alerts, see “Instance Alerts” on page 19.
AppTier Alerts
The table below describes the details displayed in the AppTier Alerts table that is displayed when you select an
AppTier in the Alerts tree
Table 2-5 AppTier Alerts
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Alert History Indicates the samples taken organized by time.
Instance Alerts
The table below describes the details displayed in the Instance Alerts table that is displayed when you select an instance in the Alerts tree.
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When you select an entry in the Instance Alerts table details of the instance of the alert are displayed in the Metric Details table (see Metric Details).
Metric Details
The table below describes the details that displayed when you select a metric in the Alerts tree or in the Instance Alerts table (see Instance Alerts).
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