Message Console - Consoles view

Message sub-consoles are used to subdivide the alerts on systems that receive a large volume of alerts. Alerts and messages can be directed to a specific console when sent and different users can be restricted to specific sub-consoles. For example, you may set-up separate sub-consoles for the Finance, Sales and Technical departments with different alerts in each and users restricted to the alerts within the sub- console applicable to their role.

NOTE: Message sub-consoles are defined within the Work with Message Sub-Consoles option.
NOTE: Work with User Authority, for HAL/CONSOLE, allows *ITEM level authority. The list of items to which user authority can be applied is taken from the consoles defined within Work with Message Sub-Consoles.

The Message Console - Consoles view lists the sub-consoles that have been defined in the Work with Message Consoles display and indicates the status of each console. If no sub-consoles have been defined, only the default *SYSTEM console is shown. Each console is displayed in the color of the highest severity open alert if using *SEV color control. This allows you to see at a glance whether any alerts, and if so their severity, are pending for each console. If using *SYS color control, the image is red reverse image if any open alerts exist, otherwise it is colored green. See system default HAL/CONDFTCOLORCTRL for more information.

To switch to the alert display, use F10=Alerts to display all alerts or use 1=Display Alerts to display only the alerts for the selected sub-console.

Parameters on the Message Console - Consoles View display

The following parameters are shown on the Message Console - Consoles View display.

Console

Displays the name of the console as defined in Work with Message Sub-Consoles. *SYSTEM indicates the local system.

Status

Displays the current system status.

OK Indicates that there are no alerts for this console
Alert Indicates that there are alerts pending for this console
Alerts

Displays the number of open alerts for each sub-console, excluding CON alerts.

Description

Displays the textual description of the sub-console as defined in Work with Message Sub-Consoles.

Using the Message Console - Consoles view

The following options are available when working with the Message Console - Console view. Type the option number in the Opt column against the required selection.

Display alerts

Use option 1=Display alerts to switch to the Message Console Alerts view, subsetted on the selected console.

The following functions are available when working with the Message Console - Consoles view:

F3=Exit

Use F3=Exit to close the current display and return to the main menu.

F5=Refresh

Use F5=Refresh to refresh the display with current information.

F10=Alerts

Use F10=Alerts to switch the Console view from Systems to Alerts.

F12=Cancel

Use F12=Cancel to close and current display and return to the previous display.

F16=User options

Use F16=User options to open the User Options display which allows user preferences to be set.

NOTE: See Message Console - Alerts View - F16=User options for more information.