Viewing and Editing Active List Entries

Where: Navigator > Resources > Lists > Active Lists tab

To add active list entries:

  1. Right-click an active list and select Edit Active List.

  2. On the Attributes tab, click Add Entry.

  3. On the Active List Entry Editor panel, add the value for your data list and click Add.

  4. Optional: To add information in the Notes tab, refer to Using Notes.

  5. Click OK.

To view active list entries:

Right-click an active list and select Show Entries.

The viewer panel displays the list's entries.

To edit active list entries:

Caution: If your fields-based active list contains numeric subtypes to accumulate values, be careful about manual changes. Your manually-entered value replaces the existing cumulative value, and your new value is not cumulative.

  1. Right-click an active list and select Show Entries.

  2. In the active list grid view, right-click an entry and choose Edit.

  3. Click the entry's Source Address or Count to make changes.

  4. Click Modify to change the existing entry, Add to post the changed entry as a new one, or Delete to remove an entry.

To refresh the active list view:

Active lists show results as of the time they opened for viewing, or the last time they were refreshed.

Click the Refresh button in the view header to update the contents.

To clear active list views:

While monitoring a particular active list view, you may want to see only traffic that happens after a certain point in time. You can accomplish this by clearing the view.

  1. In the Navigator panel's Active List resource tree, select the active list to clear.

  2. Right-click and choose Clear Entries.

To use the context menu on an active list view:

Below are right-click context commands available in active list views:

Menu Command

Description

New

Add an entry to the active list using the Active List Entry Editor.

Edit

Edit the selected entry using the Active List Entry Editor.

Delete

Remove the selected entry from the active list.

To use an active channel add to or subtract events from an active list:

You can add or remove event-attribute-based active list entries using selected events in the active channel. This feature automatically offers the name of the active list that is appropriate for the selected event.

See Adding Events from a Channel to an Active List for instructions.

To filter an active list:

In addition to the constraints of an active list itself, you can place a temporary filter on an active list view to aid your analysis. Such filters are not saved with the active list.

  1. Open an active list in the Viewer panel as described above.

  2. Click the Filter status description in the view header to open the Common Condition Editor. For example, the status No Filter Defined.

  3. Use the Common Condition Editor as described in Creating or Editing a Filter.

To customize active list columns:

You can modify active list views just like other grid views, as described in Customizing Columns.