Working with Events

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To access this tab go to Monitor | Events .

An event is a collection of runtime-related information collected by Zend Server for IBM i . This information is collected when an event is triggered, according to the Monitor component's rule settings. An event indicates that something happened in your environment that exceeded your definitions and the standards of how you want your PHP code to run.

From this page you can:

Find Events
View Event Details
Change an Event's Status

See Working with Monitoring to learn how to define which events you want Zend Server for IBM i to generate and under which conditions.

Finding Events

By default, all events are displayed in the Events page (Monitor | Events). The filter option allows you to reduce the number of events displayed in the Events table to easily locate specific events. There are seven filtering categories for events:

Occurred Before... - Only show events that first happened before the specified date.
Occurred After... - Only show events that first happened after the specified date.
Rule Name - Only show rules of a specific type.
Occurred at.... - Filter to display the results for each server.
Severity - Filter to display Severe or Warning events.
Event Type - Filter by 'Event Type'.
Status - Show events by status: Open, Closed, Reopened or Ignored.

Filtering Events

The following procedure describes how to create a filter for events. Events can be filtered by one or more of the categories

To filter events:

In the Events page, click "Show Filter Details".
A filter controller is added beneath the filter. To hide the filter controller, click "Hide Filter Details".
On the right hand side click on a filter type to add.
Each time a different filter is added, an additional selection area will appear in the filter area. You can add as many filters you like. Each time a filter is selected, a new selection area is added.
To delete a specific filter option, click the delete button (X).
Set your preferences according to the filter type. For example, set a date range for the Date filter.
When you have finished configuring the filter, click "Save Filter As..." to name the filter and save it for future use.
Click "Apply Filter" to re-display events according to the filter parameters.
If you do not want to save the filter directly, click "Apply Filter" without saving.
Only events matching the filter are displayed.

Use "Delete Saved filter" to remove the filter. Filter information is saved until the next login: You can safely navigate to other pages and tabs without losing your filter settings.

Viewing Event Details

The following procedure describes how to open an event to view the event's details. Event Details are the actual context of the event. Use these event details to locate information for root cause analysis of the issue.

To open an event:

Go to Monitor | Events to display the Events page.
In the Events page, go to the Event table.
Locate an event that interests you (the filter option can be used to decrease the number of events listed in the table).
Click on the event's ID number in the ID column.

The Event Details page opens.

Changing an Event's Status

This procedure describes how to change an event's status. The event status is used to handle the information gathered by an event in a way that is similar to an issue tracking system. For example, if you know that a certain problem has been solved, you can close the event or, if several events of the same type are triggered, you can choose to ignore them.

The possible statuses are:

Open - The basic status of an event.
Closed - Closes the event (i.e., changes the event status to closed). If this event occurs again, it is reopened .
Ignored - Ignores future instances of this event (i.e., changes the event status to ignore). Therefore, a new event is not created if the same event occurs again.
Reopened - A closed event that was opened again because it reoccurred after the event was closed.

Important:

You can select events with different statuses and apply the same new status to them.

To change an event's status:

In the Events page, select the relevant event/s from the events list.
Scroll down to the end of the page and select the relevant status from the Status list .
Click Change Status to apply the changes.

The status of the selected event/s is changed. You can also change an event's status from inside an event details page by using the "Change status..." controller at the bottom of the report.