Novell SENTINEL 6.1 SP2 - 02-2010 User Manual page 37

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The Toolbar Buttons
Active Views provides two types of views which display the events in Tables and Graphs.
Table Format displays the variables of the events as columns in a table. You can sort the information
in the grid by clicking on the column name.
Active View-Tabular Format
Figure 2-1
Graphical Format displays events as Graphs. You can change the chart types to display other chart
types.
Active View-Graphical Format
Figure 2-2
A near Real Time Event Table with graphical presentation and Snapshot are the two types of Active
Views.
Near Real Time Event Table:
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Holds up to 750 events per 30-second period. If there are more than 750 events, the events
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are displayed in the following priority order: correlated events, events that are sent to the
GUI only using a global filter, and all remaining events.
 By default, the client maintains a 24-hour period of cached events. This is configurable
through Active View
By default, the smallest possible display interval of an active view is 30 seconds. This is
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represented by a gray line in the event table.
Properties.
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