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Investigation Launcher

The Investigation Launcher lets you start new investigations and view saved investigation paths and saved searches.

A path is a series of actions that you perform to accomplish a task. By using the Investigator, you can track an earlier investigation as well as start a new investigation, and save your investigation series as a Public Path or a Private Path. You can save complete and incomplete investigations. You can load, edit, and delete complete paths; and resume incomplete paths and unsaved paths. This module helps you quickly return to a specific step in a task for training, troubleshooting, and daily operations.

The Investigation Launcher includes several tools to help you monitor and investigate data and systems:

Investigator

Displays data and systems in tabular and chart views.

Table Viewer

Displays tabular view of data. Each row of the table represents an object or a group of objects.

Topology Viewer

Displays a pictorial view of data. After you select data from an Investigator table, you can launch this tool.

Time Series Facility

Displays line charts of time-based performance data. After you select data from an Investigator table, you can launch the Time Series Facility (TSF).

Notes

Lets you embed notes in rows of data to promote knowledge sharing.

Paths

Houses the saved private and public paths that you have traversed while working in the Investigator. These paths get automatically stored in the Knowledge Center and appear in the Knowledge Center search results.

Searches

Houses the saved searches that you have traversed while investigating data. You can run, edit, and delete the searches.

The auto-refresh option is enabled by default for authorized users. When this option is enabled, any changes in the back-end data refresh the front-end data once every 30 seconds. For example, whenever the server generates new alerts, they appear on the Alerts module after 30 seconds. Click Refresh (The Refresh icon that helps you to enable or disable the auto-refresh option.) to disable or enable the auto-refresh option. If you are not authorized for auto-refresh, click Refresh (The icon that helps you refresh the data.) to refresh the data manually.