Using Console Manager From the C3 Interface › What You Can Do from the C3 Interface

What You Can Do from the C3 Interface

You can do the following tasks from the C3 interface:

• Connect to a serviced system's console in order to do routine management tasks on that serviced system
• Examine events in the current log file for several serviced systems
• Display configuration and status information for serviced systems
• Obtain console activity output in hardcopy
• Extract historical log data from an archive
• Perform a dialog with a serviced system
• Log on to a serviced system using the appropriate DECnet or TCP/IP commands.
• Invoke the monitor interface
• Unlock a console being used by another user
• Locate specific serviced systems
• Reset all system icons to their default neutral color
• Look at C3 messages
• Restart the eventlist window
• Use eventlist interactively

You can also customize your C3 display. See Chapter 9, “Customizing Console Manager,” for details.

Note: The C3 interface receives events in real time. Therefore, if an event occurs when the C3 interface is not running, then the interface will not register that event. However, the event will be logged by Console Manager, and may be reviewed by extracting the event information (see Extracting Historical Log Data, later in this chapter, for details of how to do this).

If there are certain events that require immediate action, then you can use an action routine such as Mail to notify users. This does not rely on any user being logged in to Console Manager.