Monitoring Database Messages in MC

As Management Console monitors your database, it periodically checks your system's health and performance. MC then generates messages to alert you about the state of your system. You can view and manage these messages in the Message Center.

Getting New Message Notifications

The Messages icon appears in the top-right of any database-specific page on MC (such as the Overview page or Activity page). The icon displays a new messages badge. The badge displays how many highest priority messages you have received recently.

The messages badge displays the color and letter of that priority:

• Red (H): High Priority

• Orange (N): Needs Attention

• Blue (I): Informational

In addition, the Thresholds Notification widget on the Overview page displays a summary of alerts about exceeded thresholds. Only high-priority threshold alerts appear in the Thresholds Notification widget. You can set the priority of alerts for different thresholds in the Thresholds tab on your database's Settings page.

Viewing Message Center

You can look at a preview of your most recent messages without navigating away from your current page. Click the Message Center icon in the top-right corner of Management Console to view the notification menu. The menu appears as a drop-down preview of your inbox. From this menu, you can delete, archive, or mark your messages as read.

You can access the Message Center in three ways:

Filtering Recent Messages

By default, Message Center displays up to 600 of a database's most recent messages from the past week.

To see more messages:

  1. Click Retrieve Older Messages in the top-right of the page.
  2. Use the drop-down From and To calendars to select a time range from which to retrieve older messages. You can specify days, hours, and minutes.
  3. Click Search to display the messages from the specified time frame.

Depending on your database, you may have received hundreds of recent messages in the past seven days. To help you find the messages most relevant to you, Message Center provides several ways to filter recent messages:

By default, Message Center displays up to 600 recent entries per database. You can adjust the maximum limit of messages the Message Center displays in the /opt/vconsole/config/console.properties file. To adjust the limit, change the number in the following line:

messageCenter.maxEntries=600

Managing and Archiving Messages

Message Center archives all messages you mark as read. To mark messages as read or unread, select a message or multiple messages in the Message Center and click Mark Read or Mark Unread.

You can also perform the following tasks:

Viewing Message Details

Within the Message Center, click the plus (+) symbol next to a message to get more information about the issue. You can also query the V_MONITOR.EVENT_CONFIGURATIONS table to get information about events. See the SQL Reference Manual for details.

Message Priority Levels

MC sorts messages by priority level and prioritizes them with color codes:

At the top of your inbox, the Message Center displays the number of messages that fall within each level of priority.

Click any of the values to deselect them. This filters that type of message out of your current inbox view. For example, suppose you want to view the High Priority messages in your inbox. To remove lower-priority messages, you can click the message count values for the categories labeled Needs Attention and Informational. Doing so removes them from your current view.

Messages in the inbox are additionally labeled with one of seven subcategories, according to priority:

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