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Navigate Within the Default Panels

The Real-time Display default instrument panels facilitate a progressive disclosure style of investigation in which increasingly detailed data is presented to you. You inquire about a particular resource by double-clicking on the resource name displayed. This process is known as launching. You are then presented with panels of information about the use of the resource: the top users or processes requiring the resource, for example. If you need more detail, you can launch additional panels by double-clicking on a field in the instrument.

You can determine if the panel launch capability of the Real-time Display is enabled for an instrument by moving the pointer over the graph or label displayed within the instrument. The pointer changes to a plus sign if more information is available for this performance metric. For example, the four graphs displayed in the System Overview panel are entry points for disclosing additional information on CPU utilization, page faulting, and disk I/O activity. Moving the pointer into the graphs causes the pointer to change shape, informing you that a double-click operation here causes a new panel to be displayed.

To close a panel