Defining a Hierarchy Map Data Monitor

Data Monitor Name

A unique name for the monitor.

Enable Data Monitor

Select this check box to "switch on" the monitor and collect data from the Manager. If cleared, the monitor is "off" and displays no data.

Depending on the permissions associated with the user group to which you belong, you may or may not have an option to Enable (deploy) or disable (un-deploy) the data monitor. For more information, see Enabling or Disabling a Data Monitor.

Restrict by Filter

Choose a filter resource with which to restrict the events that can affect the graphic.

Availability Interval

Set the number of seconds to use as the interval between monitor updates.

Select Field Set

Specify a field set for use in data monitor drill-downs.

When this data monitor is displayed, the user can double-click on a chart area or table row that represents an event to bring up a drill-down channel for that event.

The field set specified here determines the columns (fields) shown in the drill-down channel. (See Monitoring Dashboards for information on data monitor drill-downs.)

Source Node Identifier

This is a group by identifier. Blocks in the hierarchy map represents events or objects that have matching values for all fields chosen here. Also, identifiers specified here are available as Label By, Size By, and Color By choices on the displayed data monitor.

Choose one or more event attributes by which to group events. The default attribute is Category Behavior, but you can include multiple attributes.

For example, if you select only Category Behavior for this field, events are grouped by category behavior (for example, all events with a category behavior value of /Access are shown in one block, all events with a category behavior of /Authentication/Verify in another block, and so on).

If you select more than one source node identifier, each block in the hierarchy map represents events or objects that have the same values for all identifiers.

For example, if you select Category Behavior and Event Name as source node identifiers, then each block in the map represents events of the same behavior and event name.

See Specifying the Source Node Identifiers for more information.

Group Attributes

You can specify one or more group attributes for fields with numerical values (for example, calculate the maximum priority of all events in a field group). The attributes you specify here are shown as drill-down tooltips when you mouse over a field on a hierarchy map display. You can add these attributes by specifying a label, a field, and a function to apply to the field. The functions can be applied on numeric fields only. See Specifying Group Attributes for more details.

Also, group attributes specified here are available as Label By, Size By, and Color By choices on the displayed data monitor.