System Viewer

The System Viewer allows you to execute a scan with connections of your choice. The scan result can be viewed directly by you. Use the System Viewer to retrieve technical information about your system. Because System Viewer is not a OnePoint Diagnostics Service scan, output is not sent to the Business Intelligence Center.

Execution Details

The System Viewer offers features that are not present via a question or a question group. Main differences are:

• Whereas a question or a question group are bound to one connection, the System Viewer can be instructed to cover questions of several connections.
• Whereas a question or a question group are limited to view once (i.e., after starting the display mode, the involved output is removed from the server) the System Viewer can also be instructed to save the generated output for repeated viewing.

When the System Viewer is activated, a wizard is started. Follow the steps directed by the wizard.

You can select as many connections as are present in your folder list tree (as long as they belong to the same server). All questions of the selected connections will be prepared for execution. By default a connection is prepared with the standard questions. You can add questions (when more are defined) or remove questions up to your choice. When the connections are selected, the System Viewer only takes those questions into account that are actually present in your tree.

When execution is completed, the buttons "Display" or "Save" can be clicked:

• If you click "Display" you will be able to see the scan output only once. The scan output is processed into a viewable format (this can take a few seconds), after which a browser window allows you to review the results. Upon closing the output window, you return to the System Viewer wizard. If you then click "OK", the result of the last scan is deleted automatically (to save space on the server).
• If instead of the "Display" button you click the "Save" button, the generated output is saved and removed from the current view. After clicking "Save", the output can be viewed at a later stage (more than once) via the Master Download (this is explained next).

Viewing Details

Use the Master Download feature to select one of the saved System Views as shown below:

Use the dropdown list to select a saved view and choose the "Display" button to generate the output view. After viewing the results, the output will not be deleted automatically.

Output views can be pretty large and consume server disk space. Therefore you are encouraged to delete a view as soon as it is no longer of interest. 

In the above screen shot, as you can see, the "Delete" button is disabled. Views that are installed for demonstration purposes (as is true for the predefined view called "demo-oracle") cannot be deleted.