Panes on the Status System Page

The System page has three panes, Scorecard, Metrics, and Settings, that you use to evaluate system status.

You can sort some columns by clicking on the title. By default, columns are sorted in ascending order. To sort in ascending order, click once. To sort in descending order, click again. To return to default order, click a third time. You can refresh each pane independently.

Scorecard Pane

The Scorecard pane lists entries: system, servers, server groups, dispatchers, and services. For each entry, it shows a metric score and operational status so that you can assess system performance. For more information, see Assess System Performance.

Each metric score is represented by one of the following icons:

a green circle for good
a yellow diamond for average
a red square for poor

You must set metric thresholds before metric scores appear. For more information, see Setting metric threshold values.

If a service is disabled in IBM Cognos Configuration, it is not listed.

The metric score for each entry is based on the performance of individual child entries. The status that is displayed for each entry is the lowest status of the child entries. For example, if all the metrics for a dispatcher are good, but one service on that dispatcher has a poor metric, the metric score shown for the dispatcher is poor.

Status is one of the following:

Available if all components are available
Partially available if at least one component is available and at least one component is unavailable or partially unavailable.
Unavailable if all components are unavailable

The Group actions menu lets you perform functions, such as starting and stopping dispatchers or services Stopping and starting dispatchers and services, unregistering dispatchers Removing dispatchers from the environment, and testing dispatchers Testing dispatchers. Each entry also has an Actions menu associated with it, which you access by clicking the arrow next to the entry.

You use the Scorecard pane to navigate to the entry that you want to view. You can select the view that you want from the Change view menu in the upper-left corner. You can click on entries to select them and display the next level of entries. For example, click a server to see associated dispatchers, or click a dispatcher to see associated services.

You can maximize the Scorecard pane to see a consolidated view of information that is displayed in the Scorecard pane and important metrics from the Metrics pane. The consolidated view includes the following information:

For servers and server groups: metric score, operational status, up time, service time, number of processed requests and percentage of successful requests.
For dispatchers: metric score, operational status, number of processes, service time, current heap size (bytes), number of processed requests, and percentage of successful requests.
For services the information depends on the service.

Metrics Pane

The Metrics pane shows the metrics for the selected entry. You can expand metric groups to see the individual metric scores and values. You can reset each metric group independently Resetting metrics.

To choose the metrics that you want to display, select one or more check boxes for good, average, poor, or No metric score values. By default, all metrics are displayed. Metrics with no metric score include ones that you cannot set thresholds for and ones that you have not yet set metric thresholds for. For the latter, you must display them by clicking the No metric score check box before you can set them.

Settings Pane

The Settings pane shows settings associated with the selected entry in view only mode. To change the settings, click the set properties button Click the Set properties icon to change the settings. .

For more information on the settings in the Settings pane, see Server Administration.