What's new for V5R4

There are several new features in Management Central for V5R4.

Sharing

When you have a V5R4 GUI and a V5R4 Central system, you can share system monitors and system events. You do this in the same way that you share job monitors, message monitors, and file monitors. You specify the sharing level on the Sharing tab, which is located on the Properties window of the monitor.

System monitor

Exclude heavily utilized communication lines, such as fax lines, from the system monitor graph. For example, when you have two communication line utilization metrics, the average of all of the communication lines is plotted. Thus, if there are one or more lines that you do not want to include in the average, such as a line that is heavily loaded because of fax traffic, you can optionally exclude these lines. For instructions on how to do this, use the online help for System Monitors. (From the System Monitors Properties window click Help. From the help window click Help Topics. From the Management Central Help Topics window, click Contents > How To > System Monitors > Excluding communication lines from a system monitor.)

System monitor and graph history enhancements

Enhancements have been made to graph history and the system monitor.

Table 1. What's new in Management Central for V5R4
SAVE	You can now save a screen capture of the Graph History or the Systems Monitor window (or just the selected graph) to your local drive. File > Save Window As, File > Save Graph As
PRINT	You can print your graphs from the Graph History or System Monitor window. You can print the entire window, or just the selected graph. File > Print
COORDINATE	The System Monitor has the ability to link all of the displayed graphs together. When this option is selected, all of the graphs that make up the monitor will be coordinated in terms of the time-slice shown, and the scroll position in the graphs. Thereafter, if you scroll to one position in the graph, all of the graphs in the monitor will simultaneously scroll to that same position. View > Coordinate
ORGANIZE	Move the graphs in the System Monitor window into any visual configuration that you want by drag and drop, and resizing the graphs. When you close the Systems Monitor window, the size and positions of the graphs are saved. The next time you open the window, the graphs will display in that configuration.
VISUALIZE	Change the colors of the lines on the graph by using a menu option on the Graph History and System Monitor windows. View > Set Monitor Colors

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