Network Monitor Properties dialog box

Selecting Options > Network Monitor Options opens the Network Monitor Properties dialog box.

General tab

This table shows the configuration options on the General tab:

Option Description
Statistics Updates Specifies the thread polling interval. Click the arrow to select from the list.
Monitor Daemon Polling Specifies the Monitor Daemon polling interval. Click the arrow to select from the list.
Lock Manager Polling This option is only available for UNIX hosts.

The polling intervals determine how often Network Monitor checks threads and site daemons for status.

Automatically display new alerts Automatically shows new alerts. This is the default.

Clear this to disable this feature. If this is cleared, then Automatically select new alerts is also cleared. In this configuration, you always have some notification that a new alert has arrived. Alerts arrive through the Alerts dialog box or the Network Monitor status bar icon.

Automatically select new alerts Automatically selects new alerts so that the details are visible. This is the default.

Clear this to disable this feature. If this is cleared, then when a new alert arrives, an icon displays on the Network Monitor status bar, indicating that there is an unread alert.

Click the icon to open the Alerts dialog box. If this dialog box is already showing, then it is brought to the front. The alert icon remains on the status bar until all alerts have been read.

If the Alerts dialog box is minimized, then Network Monitor cannot restore it when a new alert arrives.

Only load the last 10 lines of a process log Keeps from having to resize the Watch Log File for process dialog box (Control > Full).

When this is selected, the dialog box loads only the last 10 lines and remembers the last opened size.

The default is cleared. These functionalities also apply to the Message Archive Log Viewer.

Engine Output tab

Use this tab to specify which messages are shown or ignored.

See Configuring the Engine Output tab.

Depth Colors tab

Use this tab to determine and select various message queue depth colors on the Network Monitor Grid tab. Queue depth colors represent the number of messages queued for the connection, but not yet delivered.

  • View tab colors apply to the individual route lines.
  • Grid tab colors apply to the thread.

The depth color is automatically applied to the route lines on the View tab.

The Depth pane lists the various queue depths to which colors have been assigned.

This table shows the configuration options for depth colors:

Option Description
Add Depth Click to add another depth to the listings on the Depth pane. For example, you could add a listing for "equal to or less than 6."
Delete Depth Click to delete the highlighted listing in the Depth pane.
Color cell The color that is shown is the current color for the selected queue depth. Click the color sample to open the Choose Thread Color dialog box, where you can select another color swatch or specify the particular color.

Reset reverts to the default settings.

Protocol Colors tab

The protocol color is shown in a rectangular bar under the protocol status message and is colored according to the protocol status.

This protocol color is updated when any protocol status is changed.

By default, every protocol color is distinct from the default depth colors, which are red, green, and yellow. All protocols have the same status color settings.

Grid View tab

This table shows the options for determining whether to show the thread name and protocol status on the Grid tab.

Option Description
Show thread name Select/clear this to show/hide the thread name on the Grid tab.
Show protocol status Select/clear this to show/hide the protocol status on the Grid tab.

The Preview pane shows what the grid display settings display on the Grid tab.