3.3 Menu system

The menu system is built up as follows – the next list contains the main menu, the submenus below it and the menu items and menu groups appearing in the browser window.

·     Alarms:

o   Public and private menu items: Viewing the alarms below the chosen menu item

§  Time span: Choosing the alarms related to a given time interval

§  View menu group: Choosing the mode of display for the alarms

§  Filters menu group: Filtering of the alarms to be displayed

§  Unknown grouping: The application can group the Unknown alarms together

§  Chart settings menu group: Chart visualization settings

·     Measurements:

o   Search: You can search for sites, equipments, measurements and charts on the basis of several parameters.

o   Public and private menu items: Viewing the measurements below the selected menu item

§  Time span: The selected time span for the charts

§  View menu group: Selecting the mode of display for the measurements

§  Chart settings menu group: Chart visualization settings

§  Split view group: the split view can be turned on here and later be managed

§  Every chart: The list of displayed and hidden charts

·     Reports:

o   On-demand report or Name of the configured reports: the on-demand report menu can be used to create and show dynamic (not pre-calculated) reports. The configuration of such an on-demand report can be saved and be shown in the menu, alongside with the pre-defined reports

§  Calendar: The reports are displayed with respect to the time interval selected in the calendar

§  Settings menu group: Report visualization settings

·     Settings:

o   Search: Searching the configured objects is possible based on various parameters.

o   Wizards: There are several configuration wizards in PVSR which makes the most common configuration more easier. It is important to note that all of these configurations can be done elsewhere on the normal configuration pages

o   Site and equipment configuration:

§  Site and equipment configuration: The basic and virtual site and equipment objects can be configured here.

§  Scheduled configurations: Automatically scheduled configurations are those that the Job queue module could not yet execute successfully.

§  Bulk measurement discovery: Measurements can be bulk created or modified here

§  Automatic template reapply: The automatic rediscovery jobs can be maintained here

§  Bulk deletion: Sites, equipments, measurements, thresholds, virtual sites, virtual equipments and charts can be bulk deleted here

§  Search for unsuccessful measurements: Those equipments or measurements can be bulk deleted or deactivated here for which the data collection were not successful.

§  Bulk inactive equipment activation or deletion: The deactivated equipments can be bulk reactivated here

§  Equipment configuration export: The basic equipment configurations can be exported into a text file

§  Bulk equipment update: The exported file can be imported and the system applies the changes in the database

§  Bulk relationship creation: A text file can be uploaded here in order to create multiple custom relationships in one step

§  Bulk relationship deletion: Multiple custom relationships can be deleted here in one step

§  SNMP discovery: The system searches for available SNMP equipments in a network

§  Nagios config parser: Equipment configuration based on Nagios config files

o   Thresholds:

§  Configuration: The thresholds are configured on this link. The thresholds can also be configured in the menu group of the default equipment; however only the measurements of the given equipment can be configured there, while all of them here.

§  Types: The threshold types can be edited

§  Traps: The SNMP traps, which the system sends when a threshold violation begins or ends, can be configured using this menu item.

§  Threshold configuration export: Threshold parameters can be exported into a text file

§  Bulk threshold update: The exported file can be reimported in order to bulk change multiple thresholds in one step

§  Custom e-mails: The e-mails, which the system sends when a threshold violation begins or ends, can be configured using this menu item

§  Custom command: The commands arguments called when an alarm is created or closed can be configured here

§  Alarm sounds: Sound files in MP3 format can be uploaded here which then can be played by the application when an alarm occurs

§  Event definition: The SNMP Traps and Syslog message reception can be configured here

§  Event configuration: The events created from SNMP Trap or Syslog can be configured here

o   Reports:

§  Report variables: Defining the variables used for reports

§  Report views: Creating reports by selecting variables

§  Report export: The report variables and views can be exported into a file

§  Report import: The file exported in the menu above can be imported using this menu

§  Report activation: The application contains several built-in reports which can be activated in the menu: the reports will contain data after the activation

§  Scheduled reports: The scheduled sending of reports can be set here.

§  Scheduled equipment send: The scheduled sending of equipments and virtual equipments can be set here

§  Scheduled alarm report: The scheduled sending of alarm tables can be set here.

o   Customization: (here obviously the editing of “public” equipment refers to the administrator, while that of “private” to the rest of the users):

§  Public charts: Editing public charts

§  Public menu items: Defining public menu items

§  Private charts: The user can edit their private charts here

§  Private menu items: Defining private menu items

§  External links: The external links that can be displayed for basic or virtual site and equipment objects can be set here.

§  User defined attributes: Configuring equipment attributes

§  User defined relationships: Configuring custom relationship types

§  Preferences: The user can configure his/her own displaying preferences

§  E-mail addresses: The e-mail addresses of the users can be entered in the system.

o   Templates:

§  MIB upload: The SNMP MIBs files can be uploaded to the system here.

§  Measurement definitions: Editing of measurement definitions falling into the other category

§  Equipment templates: Editing of equipment templates

§  Chart templates: Editing of chart templates

§  Chart order templates: Editing of chart order templates

§  Threshold templates: Editing of threshold templates

§  Threshold template export: The threshold templates can be exported into a file

§  Threshold template import: The file exported in the menu above can be imported using this menu

§  Business hours: Defining period templates related to thresholds and report variables

§  Time zones: Registering of time zones

o   Servers:

§  Licences: The currently used and available licences can be displayed and configured.

§  Licence history: The previously used device licences and licence points.

§  Device and measurement summary: The list of all basic equipments, and for each measurement type the number of objects in the system can be viewed here.

§  Database usage: provides information about the used amount of database space and provides future predictions

§  Tenant configuration: PVSR is a multi-tenant application, however tenants are optional

§  Server groups: Configuration of individual measuring groups

§  Server configuration: The measurement servers can be selected-modified-deleted, while other servers can be modified too.

§  Start/Stop/Status: The individual servers can be remotely managed from here.

§  Server watchdog: several modules send watchdog keepalive messages into the system

§  Server events: The events that occurred during self-testing can be viewed here.

§  Module status: The SQLLDR, threshold and report processing modules show their processing status (at which point in time are they in processing)

§  Collector load: Viewing the load of the collectors and listing the unsuccessful measurements at a given date.

§  Collection cycle stats: how many seconds are left over in each data collection cycle for each collector module. If the value is low (or below zero) then new data collectors might be needed

§  Data collection time stats: which equipments took the most time to collect data from in the selected timespan

§  Load late arrived results: If PVSR skipps over data files (because they arrived late into the system due to communication error) then they can be selected here for loading

o   Audit trail:

§  Audt trail: The individual configuration modifications can be displayed

§  Configuration comment: A short and a long description can be attached to the current login session and PVSR will display these descriptions when showing the corresponding audit trail

o   User:

§  User group admin: User group configuration

§  User admin: User configuration

§  User and group rights: You can configure which privileges/permissions the users and groups should possess

§  Change password: The user can change his/her password that is used to log into the system

The contents of the menu system depends on the access rights of the user, however the four main menu items are available for everybody, while the submenu items can be seen only if the user can actually use them. For example, a submenu is not displayed if the user has no privilege to access any of the subitems under it.

Only the “admin” user can view the Settings=>Servers=> Groups and “Server configuration” submenu items. For non-administrator users the submenus used to make changes are not displayed, and the other submenus are displayed selectively based on the access rights of the user.