Altering the width and name of TEC console fields

Before 3.6 one of the most requested options in the TEC was the ability to modify the width of TEC console fields. With the advent of 3.6 this is now possible.

Changing the width of a column

In the figure below you can see that the message column is not wide enough to show a full Distributed Monitoring short message. Therefore to save having to open up the full event we can now modify the width of the column by setting the size withidlattr command.

The columns that can be changed are:

• action_f
• action_r
• action_s
• action_u
• administrator
• class
• date
• dpage_key
• event_key
• hostname
• id
• message
• origin
• repeat_count
• severity
• source
• status
• sub_origin
• sub_source

The column width attribute name for any of these slots is made up of the name of the slot and then suffixed with_cw. For example the message column width attribute is message_cw and the status column width attribute is status_cw.

Finding the current size of the column

To find the current size run the following procedure:

e.g.

$OID=`wlookup -or EnterpriseClient <Console label>`
idlattr -tg $OID message_cw short32

Therefore the current size is 32.

Setting the new column width

To set the new column size run the following procedure:

e.g.

$OID=`wlookup -or EnterpriseClient <Console label>`
idlattr -ts $OID message_cw short << EOF
50<
EOF

N.B. Make sure you run the command from within a bash shell on NT.

Changing the column name

Also in 3.6 there is the ability to change the actual column names. The column name attribute is the slot name suffixed with_cn. Therefore the status slot name attribute would be status_cn.

Therefore to change the column name of the hostname field we can run the following commands:

e.g.

$OID=`wlookup -or EnterpriseClient <Console label>`
idlattr -tg $OID hostname_cn string
"hostname"

This shows the current value. To set the new value run the following command:

idlattr -ts $OID hostname_cn string << EOF
"System Name"
EOF

N.B. Make sure you run the command from within a bash shell on NT.

Stop the Event Console and Restart

Stop the event console and restart it. In the figure below you can now see that when we bring up our new console we have the column names and column widths we want.