Creating a task to Monitor Workstations

About this task

To create a Monitor Workstations task, perform the following steps.

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Procedure

In the navigation bar, click System Status and Health > Workload Monitoring > Monitor Workload and follow the steps described in Creating a monitoring task query.
If you are familiar with conman, in the Query text box specify a query based on the conman showcpus syntax. Alternatively, click Edit to select the filter criteria from the list of options that is displayed.
In the General Filter section, specify some broad filtering criteria to limit the results retrieved by your query. Here you start refining the scope of your query by also considering the amount of information you want to retrieve. Optionally, in some of the results tables in the Periodic Refresh Options section, you can customize how often to refresh the information by specifying the refresh interval in seconds in hh:mm:ss format, with a minimum of 30 seconds and a maximum of 7200 seconds. For example, 00:01:10 means 70 seconds. If the value specified is not valid, the last valid value is automatically used. If the periodic refresh is enabled for a task, when the task runs, the refresh time control options are shown in the results table. You can also set or change the periodic refresh interval directly in the results table when the timer is in stop status. In this case, the value specified at task creation time is temporarily overwritten.
You can filter the task results based on the workstation and domain names, or part of names (using wildcard characters).

You can filter the task results based on the workstation types and reporting attributes.
In the Columns Definition section, select the information you want to display in the table containing the query results. According to the columns you choose here, the corresponding information is displayed in the task results table. For example, for all the objects resulting from your query, you might want to see their link statuses, domains, and type, or you might want to see their statuses and the number of jobs successful or running on them. You can then drill down into this information displayed in the table and navigate it.
In the Columns Definition section, not only can you select the columns for this task results, but you can also specify the columns for secondary queries on:
- jobs, job streams domains, files, and resources. For example, you are creating a task to search for all the workstations of a domain. From the resulting list of workstations, you can navigate to see (secondary query) a list of all the jobs running on each of them.
- jobs. For example, you are creating a task to search for all the virtual workstations that are also fault-tolerant. From the resulting list of workstations, you can navigate to see (secondary query) a list of all the jobs running on each of them.

Results

After specifying all the required criteria, you can save your task or immediately run it to create a list of workstations that satisfies your filtering settings. For details, see Creating a monitoring task query.