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Navigation

The navigation bar is an important aspect of the ASM platform. It allows users to easily find all of the features offered within ASM. This article provides an overview of the different pages which can be accessed from the top navigation bar.

Clicking on the ASM image to the left of the Overview menu item will always bring you back to the main Dashboard.

Overview

Dashboard

See Dashboards for more information.

Apica Panels

The “Apica Panels” menu item allows users to view their configured Apica Panels instances. Apica Panels is a feature which allows users to integrate Apica data into Grafana dashboards for easier viewing; see Using the Apica Panels Dashboards for a complete overview of the feature. The “Apica Panels” menu item contains two sub-items: “Panels” and “About”.

Panels

Clicking the “Panels” link will bring you to the Panels page, on which you can see a high level overview of your Panels dashboards and open or delete an individual Panels dashboard.

The default Panels version available in the ASM SaaS portal is called “Apica Panels (v2)”. There are two major versions of Apica Panels; one version is based on Grafana version 4, and the other (Panels v2) is based on Grafana version 8. Apica Panels (v1) is only available to customers who had ASM Panels enabled before the major version change and have a need to maintain their older dashboards.

If you do not see “Apica Panels (v1)” on your dashboard, it means you do not have legacy Apica Panels configured on your account. Proceed with using only Panels v2 panels.

About (Apica Panels)

Clicking on the “About” sub-menu item will bring you to the “About” page, which provides a high-level overview of the Apica Panels feature.

Tools

The Tools section provides access to a number of different system features, such as Impersonate, API settings, Maintenance, Journal, Trace Route, and Messages.

Menu

Impersonate

With the Impersonate tool you can view Synthetic Monitoring from a different user's perspective. This feature can be very useful for troubleshooting or assisting your users with any problem they may encounter.

Item

Description

Item

Description

Filter

Search for user accounts by name.

Customer

Customer the user account belongs to.

User Name

Account user name.

Roles

List of roles associated with the account.

Last Activity

Clear the settings.

 

Switch from current user and impersonate.

Start Impersonation

The Impersonate tool allows Admin users to use Synthetic Monitoring with the permissions and settings of another user.

Impersonate User

To impersonate a user:

  • Open the Tools menu

  • Click Impersonate

  • Use the Filter to search for users

  • Find the user in the table

  • Click Impersonate

Drop Impersonation

When you want to stop impersonating, you can drop the impersonation without logging out and in again.

Drop Impersonation

To stop impersonating a user:

  • Open the User menu

  • Click Drop Impersonation

The user context is switched back to the original one.

Maintenance

The Maintenance view lets you modify or delete result records for individual checks and recalculate any associated consolidation records. The table shows a list of previous maintenance tasks and information about them:

Button

Description

Button

Description

Show entries

Number of rows to display per page.

Refresh History

Reload and update the table display.

Column

Description

Column

Description

Created

Timestamp for when the task was created.

Action

Action(s) performed by the task.

Status

The task status (running/success/cancelled).

Records

Number of items affected by the task.

Maintenance Tasks

Maintenance tasks can be created by selecting relevant checks and applying the appropriate action.

Apply Action

The apply action section lets you select what action to apply to the selected checks and queue the task for processing.

Option

Description

Option

Description

Update

Change the Check Result Status to this severity.

Set Value to NULL

Exclude the check from all calculations.

Delete

Remove the results.

 

Press Process Selected Records to remove the results.

Selector View

The selectors allow you to pick which checks to include in the task.

Item

Description

Item

Description

Type

List of check types.

Checks

List of checks of the selected type.

Check result Colors to include.

From

Start date and time for the period.

To

End date and time for the period.

Refresh

Reload and update the table display according to settings.

Display records

The number of rows to display per page.

Search

Search for checks by message text.

Create A Maintenance Task

Maintenance tasks can be created by selecting relevant checks and applying the appropriate action.

To create a maintenance task:

  1. Select the check results you want to modify:

  2. Type from the list

  3. Check from the list

  4. Pick a period:

  5. Enter a From date and time

  6. Enter a To date and time

  7. Search for strings in message texts, if needed

  8. Click Refresh

  9. Click Process Selected Records

A database task is placed in a queue for execution. It will run as soon as possible.

When queued, the maintenance task is visible in the Task table.

Table

The table shows the result of applying the selectors.

 

NOTE: The action in the task will apply to all selected checks. Make sure you have selected the correct checks before clicking the button.