IBM Tivoli Monitoring, Version 6.3

Refreshing a workspace

You can refresh the data that is displayed in the workspace on demand or at a set interval.

About this task

The Tivoli Enterprise Portal client receives monitoring data from monitoring agents whenever you open a workspace that includes query-based views. The default setting for most predefined workspaces is On Demand, which means retrieved data remains static until you refresh manually.

Procedure

To refresh a workspace manually, click Refresh Now.
To set a refresh interval, click View > Refresh Every, and select one of the intervals: 30 seconds; 60 seconds; 5 minutes; 15 minutes; 60 minutes; or On Demand .

What to do next

Note: In order for your refresh settings to persist, you must save the workspace and optionally select "Assign as default for this Navigator item" in the Save Workspace As dialog.

If the workspace includes any plot charts or area charts, you can refresh those views independent of the rest of the workspace by editing the Style properties of the plotted area to specify a refresh rate.

Be aware that the more frequent the automatic refresh, the more network traffic you create. These requests travel from the portal client to the portal server and to the hub monitoring server before reaching the monitoring agent. They might also pass through a remote monitoring server to reach the monitoring agent. The information is returned by the same route.

Flow of data for workspace views.

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