Service Level and Monitoring widget

As seen earlier in this chapter, OEM Grid Control provides extensions to the console application through the desktop widgets and in particular the Service Level and Monitoring (SLM) widget is used for service target management. The SLM widget provides the administrator with a consolidated view of the health of the OEM services on the desktop without having to use the browser. The widget also provides configuration capability to monitor only those services that are of interest to the administrator. The widget has a built-in capability to refresh itself so that the administrator can gauge the health based on the most recent data. The widget has both summary and detailed views. The summary view provides an overview of all the selected services by providing aggregated data of the availability, alerts, and the SLA. The detailed view allows the administrator to flip through the above data for each of the selected services.

The README and the release notes for...