There are different ways to customize the elements and alarms displayed in the Operations Center console. Elements originate from different sources, but it is possible to change their appearance in the Console to facilitate analysis and reporting.
A simple customization is to change the icons used to represent elements in the Console. Another useful feature is to create custom element and alarm menu options that are attached to specific objects or alarms based on criteria matching and can perform scriptable actions in the Operations Center Console or on the server.
To customize alarm management, administrators can specify which alarm columns display in the Console and the order in which they display. Configuring elements and alarms for suppression and acknowledgement helps administrators to troubleshoot issues related to alarms, or to identify how a new event affects the state of an element.
Other areas of controlling alarm display involve setting the maximum number of alarms displayed in the Console and limiting the roll‑up of alarms to root elements, for performance reasons.
The following sections explain how to customize monitored elements and alarms: