View Mappings

Administration > Operations Console > View Mappings

Alternatively, click View Mappings.

Health top views are the views that OMi uses to display configuration items in the Health Top View pane of the Health Perspective tab. A view displays a defined subset of the RTSM ConfigurationItem model, for example, only configuration items that relate to a specific area of interest such as Storage or Databases.

Generally, views enable you to limit both the type and the amount of information displayed. For example, selecting a view in the Event Browser CI Tree refines the number and type of configuration items loaded from the RTSM and displayed in the list of available configuration item types.

Similarly, you can restrict the amount and type of information presented in the Health Top View pane by selecting a view from the View list. The contents of the View list depend on the configuration items in the Health Top View, which are themselves related to the event selected in the Event Browser, and the views mapped to them in View Mappings.

You can use the Content Packs manager to import and export the list of mapped views displayed in the View list. The Import and Export features of the Content Packs manager provide a convenient way for software administrators to exchange lists of mapped views between instances of OMi.

You can map views to configuration item types. The mapped views appear in the View list displayed in the Health Top View pane of the Health Perspective tab.

The views displayed in the View list are determined by the view mappings defined in the View Mappings manager. You can also use the View Mappings manager to filter the views that the user sees in the View list according to the category of an event, such as DB or Storage. In this way, you refine the available views to those that make most sense for a given usage model. For example, if you map the DB2 view to the configuration item type DB Tablespace, you can also specify in the mapping rule that only views containing configuration item types concerning events belonging to event categories DB or Storage (or both) are visible.

For details on the Health Top View, see Health Top View Component.

1. In the left pane, select the CI type that you want to map to a view. See also How to search and filter CI types.

2. In the right pane, click New to open the Create New View Mapping side panel.

3. In the Create New View Mapping panel, from the drop-down list, select a view that contains a reference to the selected CI type.

4. Optional. If you want to further restrict the views displayed according to an event category, type all or part of the name of an event category into the Event category pattern field by using a standard regular expression. If you want to specify multiple event categories, use the pipe symbol (|), for example:

   Unix | Windows

   Note It is also possible to define more than one view mapping with the same view but different event categories, for example:

   CI type: Node, view All Unix Nodes, event category: Unix

   CI type: Node, view All Unix Nodes, event category: Windows

   Note Event category patterns can contain a maximum of 255 characters.

5. Enter a precedence value for the view mapping.

   Note The view with the highest precedence is shown in the Health Top View pane as default. The precedence of inherited view mappings is also taken into account. The valid precedence range is 0 to 1000.

6. Click Create.

1. Open the Health Perspective tab:

   Workspaces > Operations Console > Health Perspective

   Alternatively, click Health Perspective.

2. In the Event Browser pane, select an event related to the view specified in the view mapping and, if you set an additional event category filter, one that belongs to one of the event categories specified in the filter.

3. In the Health Top View pane, make sure that the new view mapping definition is displayed in the View list.

You can search for specific CI types and view CI types that match specified filter criteria. There are two filters:

• Show only CI types with assigned view mappings

• View (Show CI types contained within a specified view)

• Search for a specified CI type:

  1. In the Search field, enter a string.

     After you select the first CI type that matches the specified string, it is highlighted in the CI tree. If that CI is not initially visible, the CI tree is expanded to display the CI type.

  2. Click Move Down to find the next occurrence of the CI type for which you are searching.

     Tip To go back to the previous occurrence of the CI type, click Move Up. To clear the search results, click Clear.

• Filter the CI tree to show only CI types with assigned view mappings:

  Click Filter, and then select the Show only CI types with assigned view mappings check box. Only the CI types that have view mappings assigned are displayed.

• Filter the CI tree with a view:

  1. Click Filter, and then select the View check box. The View field becomes active.

  2. Select a view from the drop-down list. Only the CI types that match the selected view are displayed.

     Tip You can use an asterisk (*) or a slash mark (/) to fully expand or collapse the CI tree.

No CI type is selected. Select a CI type that contains some view mappings in the left pane of the View Mappings manager.

• The desired view does not contain a reference to the CI type to which you want to map a view. Either add the CI type to the view using RTSM tools, or map a view to another CI type.

• No, or incorrectly defined, event category is specified in the Event category pattern field. If necessary, modify the string (or the regular expression) specified in the Event category pattern field when configuring the view mapping definition. Remember to explicitly save the modified definition.