10.3 Opening the alarm panel directlyThe PVSR interface allows that at startup a site or device is immediately opened under the Alarms main menu independently of what the user has configured as the starting page in his preferences. Consequently, the PVSR system can easily be connectable to other systems (i.e. recording system). The starting URL that would correspond to the currently displayed object can be revealed and consequently copied by clicking on the Link button on the right hand side of the alarms panel, therefore making the manual assembly of the URL according to the following set of rules unnecessary. The functionality can be accessed with two different types of arguments, in both cases the PVSR interface has to be started with the http://PVSR_SERVER/cgi-bin/link.pl?view=TR&other_parameter URL (when the system is on port 80 of PVSR server’s WEB server):
o S: site o G: virtual site o E: device o R: virtual device o F: load measurement o O: other measurement
o type: the type of the object. The short forms mentioned above can be used or one of the longer names: site, virtual_site, equip, virtual_equip, traffic, measurement. o name: the name of the object
o type: it has to be equip or E o search_for: its value is either ip_address or a collector specific parameter name, for example “ORA EQ 1 CONN” for the Oracle connection parameter. The available parameter names are documented in the collector specific section of 14.1 Specifics of measurement server types o name: value of the parameter The advantage of the first method is that it identifies the element unambiguously since the inner identifier does not change and uniquely identifies the object. The other method does not guarantee unique identification (i.e. one measurement name can occur more than once) but its usage is much easier. The inner identifiers’ of objects can be seen by the admin users: in case of measurements at the configuration panel of the device, in case of site or device at the appropriate link on their configuration page. Examples (assuming that the PVSR runs on port 80 of the PVSR server):
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