HP Network Direr Software Products manual Events List Components

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Figure 163 More Detail Dialog Box Graph Tab

The Graph tab works in a similar manner to the Detailed Graph dialog box for a monitor (see “Detailed Graph Dialog Box” on page 287 for details of this). However, there are a few differences worth noting:

■The Graph tab displays a historical graph of the monitor’s state around the time of the event, rather than a live graph. As a result, once the history of the monitor’s state around the time of the event has been fully collected, the graph will remain static.

■A vertical white line is displayed on the graph. This indicates the time when the event was generated.

■The text at the bottom of the graph provides a hot-link that allows you to view a report showing historical graphs for the item that the event was generated for. This report provides a general history of the item and is not limited to, or focused on, the monitor that generated the event or the time when the event was generated.

By default the events system maintains a 10-minute history of the monitoring state of the monitor that generated the monitor-based event, both before and after the time when the event was generated. The