Startup options for the Dashboard Viewer
The Dashboard Viewer supports options that can be specified on the start-up command line to override the default values used by the viewer. The executable for the Dashboard Viewer is dashboard_viewer
, which can be found in the bin
directory of the Apama installation.
Synopsis
To pass start-up options to the Dashboard Viewer, run the following command:
dashboard_viewer [ options ] [ rtv-file-path ]
When you run this command with the -h
option, the usage message for this command is shown.
Options
The dashboard_viewer
executable takes the following options:
Option |
Description |
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Specifies the panels-initialization file to use for displaying this dashboard. |
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Sets the correlator host and port for a specified logical correlator name. These options set the host and port for the logical names |
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Suppress the check box in the login dialog that allows a direct connection to the correlator. |
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Connect directly to the correlator. |
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Specifies whether to purge all trend data when an instance is edited. |
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Exclude instances which are not owned by the user. This option applies to all dashboard processes. Default is |
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Full pathname of the file in which to record logging. If this option is not specified, the options in the log4j properties file are used. See also Text internationalization in the logs. |
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Trend configuration file for controlling trend-data caching. |
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Emit usage information and then exit. |
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Redirect XML sources through data server. |
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Full pathname of the JAAS initialization file to be used by the data server. If not specified, the data server uses the file |
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Single click for drill down and actions. |
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Double click for drill down and actions. |
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XML data source file. If |
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Correlator-connect mode. |
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Set the component name for identification in the correlator. The default name is |
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Sets the host and port for a specified logical data server name. This overrides the host and port specified by the Dashboard Builder for the given server logical name. This option can occur multiple times in a single command. |
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Do not display splash screen in startup. |
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Do not display menu bar. |
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Use the specified |
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Maximum number of decimal places to use in numerical values displayed by dashboards. Specify values between 0 and 10, or -1 to disable truncation of decimal places. A typical value for |
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Configures SQL Data Source access.
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Specifies whether to purge all DataView data when an instance or item is removed. |
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Specifies a value to substitute for a given dashboard variable. This can be used to parameterize a dashboard at startup. This option can occur multiple times in a single command. For example: If the value contains a space, enclose the value in double quotes. If the value contains a double quote, you must escape it by using a backslash character ( |
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Specifies the data server host and port that will appear as the defaults in the Data Server Login dialog. The host and port fields of the dialog will be modifiable only if you specify |
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Maximum depth for trend data, that is, the maximum number of events in trend tables. If this option is not specified, the maximum trend depth is 1000. Note that the higher you set this value, the more memory the data server requires, and the more time it requires in order to display trend and stock charts. |
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Text for the title bar of the Dashboard Viewer main window. |
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Data update rate in milliseconds. This is the rate at which the data server pushes new data to deployed dashboards in order to inform them of new events received from the correlator. |
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Emit program name and version number and then exit. |
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Logging verbosity. level is one of |
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By default, the Dashboard Viewer will display a warning dialog when the connection to a correlator is lost. Specify |
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Full pathname of the JAAS initialization file to be used by the data server. If not specified, the data server uses the file |
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Add an index for the specified SQL-based instance table with the specified compound key.
You can only add one index per table, but you can specify this option multiple times in a single command line in order to index multiple tables. Use this option only when you connect the viewer directly to a correlator. |
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Make SQL-based instance tables available as data tables for visualization attachments. See Attaching dashboards to correlator data. Use this option only when you connect the viewer directly to a correlator. |
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Default time zone for interpreting and displaying dates. |
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Set inclusion filters. This option can occur multiple times in a single command. |
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Set exclusion filters. This option can occur multiple times in a single command. |