Monitoring settings

This table describes the Monitoring options for customizing your settings in the Control-M client:

Option type

Description

Startup

Auto open viewpoint: Defines how to automatically open a viewpoint by selecting one on the following:

  • Select
  • Last Viewpoint
  • Display "Open viewpoint" dialog

    Leave the field unchecked to display an empty Viewpoint when you start a session.

Select

Enables you to automatically open a viewpoint by filtering your criteria by selecting one of the following from the drop-down list:

  • All Active Jobs
  • By Application
  • By Description
  • By Owner
  • By Status
  • By Folder
  • By <name of your saved viewpoint>

Last Viewpoint

Enables you to open the last-opened viewpoint from the previous session.

Display "Open ViewPoint" dialog

Enables you to open the viewpoint dialog box, allowing you to view a viewpoint dialog box for the current session.

Open into Local View

Enables the job that prompts an alert and the jobs having a dependency relationship with that job, to display in a Viewpoint.

Use Radius of: Defines the level of dependencies where jobs are selected and displayed in a Viewpoint.

Viewpoint Name: Defines the Viewpoint into which the jobs should be displayed. You can chose one of the following:

  • All Active Jobs
  • All Jobs
  • By Application
  • By Description
  • By Owner
  • By Status
  • By Folder
  • By <name of your saved viewpoint>

BMC Software recommends that you choose a viewpoint containing All jobs. If you choose a viewpoint that does not have a collection of all jobs, hosts not included in the collection do not display. Non-pin collections may have a poor response time.

Automatic refresh

Reload active net: Enables information from Control‑M to be updated automatically in Control‑M Workload Automation. If not selected, you must click Refresh in Control-M, in order to display the latest changes in Production.

Parent Topic

Customized settings