Billboard objects let you keep up-to-date information about critical (not propagated) objects in view at all times. You can take a quick look at the billboard to see if any of the children of this container are critical. They are real objects so you can enter the billboard to solve the problem. Double-click on the object to get a closer look at a critical object.
Once you create a billboard object, all of the critical children of the billboard’s siblings are shown in the billboard. If the critical status of an object changes to normal, that object is removed from the billboard. A status that changes from normal to critical causes the affected object to appear in the billboard automatically. To create a billboard, click the Toolbox icon and choose Billboard from the Managed Object tree, then drag and drop it into the 2D Map.
You can see the status of any object that appears in the 2D Map at a glance, because devices with problems, along with their segments, subnets, and networks, appear in colors reflecting the severity of their problems. Alarmsets defined in the MDB and represented on the 2D Map determine the relative importance of different classes of faults by assigning each one a severity status. CA NSM provides default alarmsets that you can assign to any object, customize, and extend.
Note: Do not place billboard objects on the topmost parent.
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