view General Properties Custom View Name Audit Parent Node Audit Frame Title Audit Icon File Name images/batchconfigtreeicon.png Menu File Name configauditmenu.xml Table Popup Menu Tree Popup Menu Custom Views, frameoptions.xml, TreeOperatic Node Index Close Figure 11.9 Defining a new custom view in CSM. to the user. AdventNet's configuration management software supports custom views while viewing the auditing details. Custom view options can be selected from a drop-down menu, just as would be done for customisation of features in MS Word. The Custom Views are divided into five categories: add, remove, modify, save and rename. A new custom view is set up as shown in Figure 11.9. Custom views are important because staff productivity can be greatly increased by customizing views in a way that is appropriate to the particular business process of a service provider. In the form for defining custom views, details such as the name of the custom view, the tree node where the custom view must be created,40 the icon to be associ- ated for the custom view, the table and other prosaic details such as tree pop-up menu can be customised. In the screen shown in Figure 11.10, the match criteria can be specified, so that all the objects that satisfy the match criteria fall into a category and form the custom view. The screen in Figure 11.11 is used to select the columns that must be displayed for the newly created custom view. The user can select the required columns by 40 Tree nodes were introduced in Chapter 4. 11 Configuration Management A Add Custom View Form Add Custom View Please give the criteria to create custom view. Property Operation Value Task Name starts with Task Name Sub Task Name Task Execution ID Device Name Device ID Start Time Finish Time Status Fewer Close Figure 11.10 Setting up attributes for a custom view in CSM. selecting the appropriate check boxes and the display names can be customised by entering the names in the text boxes. Audit details can be searched from all tasks that have been executed, as show