. The System page has three panes, which you use to evaluate system status: Scorecard, Metrics, and Settings.
You can refresh each pane independently.
You can sort some columns by clicking on the title. By default, columns are sorted in ascending order. To sort in ascending order, click once. To sort into descending order, click again. To return to default order, click a third time.
The Scorecard pane lists entries: system,
servers, server groups, dispatchers, and services. For each, it
shows a metric score and operational status so that you can assess
system performance .
Each metric score is represented by a symbol:
a green circle for good 
a yellow diamond for average 
a red square for poor 
You must set metric thresholds before metric scores appear .
If a service is disabled in IBM Cognos Configuration, it is not listed.
The metric score for each entry is based on the performance of individual child entries. The status that is displayed for each entry is the lowest status of the child entries. For example, if all the metrics for a dispatcher are good but one service on that dispatcher has a poor metric, the metric score shown for the dispatcher is poor.
Status is one of the following:
Available if all components are available
Partially available if at least one component is available and at least one component is unavailable or partially unavailable.
Unavailable if all components are unavailable
The Toolbar actions menu lets you perform functions such as starting
and stopping dispatchers or services , unregistering dispatchers ,
and testing dispatchers . Each entry also has an Actions menu associated
with it, which you access by clicking the arrow next to the entry.
You use the Scorecard pane to navigate to the entry that you want to view. You can select the view that you want from the Change view menu in the upper-left corner. You can click on entries to select them and display the next level of entries. For example, click a server to see associated dispatchers or click a dispatcher to see associated services.
You can maximize the Scorecard pane to see a consolidated view of information that is displayed in the Scorecard pane and important metrics from the Metrics pane. It includes the following information:
For servers and server groups, the following information is displayed: metric score, operational status, up time, service time, number of processed requests and percentage of successful requests.
For dispatchers, the following information is displayed: metric score, operational status, number of processes, service time, current heap size (bytes), number of processed requests, and percentage of successful requests.
For services, the information that is displayed depends on the service.
The Metrics pane shows the metrics for the
selected entry. You can expand metric groups to see the individual
metric scores and values. You can reset each metric group independently
You can select the metrics that you want to display by clicking a check box at the top of the pane. By default, all are displayed. Metrics with no metric score include ones that you can not set thresholds for and ones that you have not yet set metric thresholds for. For the latter, you must display them by clicking the No metric score check box before you can set them.
The Settings pane shows settings associated
with the selected entry in view only mode. To change settings, click
the set properties button 
.
For more information on the settings in the Settings pane, see Server Administration.
