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# Activity screen details

The Activity screen provides a view of the health of your environment and resources by combining all system and user initiated tasks, alerts, and administrator's notes into a single view. The notifications that appear on this screen simplify the correlation of user activity with system health, allowing for timely resolution of issues. The following components appear on the Activity screen:

- An activity heading

- An activity filter sidebar

- The activity list

- An activity sidebar

## Activity heading details

Screen component | Description
--- | ---
| Click the right pin icon () to collapse the filter options in the Activity heading and to expand the Activity filter sidebar. Click the left pin icon () to collapse the Activity filter sidebar and to expand the filter options in the Activity heading.
Activity number | Displays the number of activities, both tasks and alerts.
Filter options | Select the filtering criteria for the activity list display. The filter criteria are the same as for the Activity filter sidebar.

## Activity list details

Screen component | Description
--- | ---
| Use the expand icon to expand the row describing the activity. Expanding a row displays detailed information on the activity, including the full name of the activity and a possible resolution. See View an activity. Rows are collapsed by default with truncated messages.
| Use the collapse icon to collapse the row describing the activity.
Status and severity icons | The icon shown indicates the status of the activity. For a description of each icon, see Status and severity icons.
Name | Displays either the name of the task that was performed or a message associated with the alert. Such messages are truncated when collapsed. Use the expand icon to view both the message in full and a possible resolution. You can sort the resources in ascending or descending order by clicking Name at the top of the column, then clicking the Sort icon that appears.
Resource | Displays the source of the activity. The source can be the device that was involved in a task or the device that caused the alert. Click the link to access the screen that manages the resource. When you select or expand an activity, or hover your pointing device on the resource, the appliance displays the resource category. You can sort the resources in ascending or descending order by clicking Resource at the top of the column, then clicking the Sort icon that appears.
Date | The date and time when either a task was started or when an alert arrived. The date is presented in `mm/dd/yy` format and the time in `hh:mm:ss` format. If you hover your mouse pointer over the date, the appliance indicates how long ago since the activity was posted, based on the time according to the browser. You can sort the activities by newest or oldest by clicking Date at the top of the column, and then clicking the Sort icon that appears.
State | The state of the activity. For a task in a `Running` state, the display shows how long it has been running. For example, `16s` indicates that the task has been running for 16 seconds. You can sort by activity state in ascending or descending order by clicking State at the top of the column, then clicking the Sort icon that appears.
Owner | The name of the user that either started the task or is assigned to investigate the alert. Users who are currently assigned to alerts are listed in a menu. You can sort by owner in ascending or descending order by clicking Owner at the top of the column, then clicking the Sort icon that appears.

## Activity filter sidebar details

Screen component | Description
--- | ---
| Click the left pin icon to collapse the Activity filter sidebar and expand the filter options in the Activity heading.
| Click the right pin icon to collapse the filter options in the Activity heading and expand the Activity filter sidebar.
Filter options |
Option | Description
--- | ---
Reset | Click this button to reset all filter options to their default values and refresh the activity list. This action also clears the Smart Search box. This button appears at the top of the Activity filter sidebar and at the end of the Activity heading.
Filter | Select Needs attention to display uncleared activities with a status of Critical or Warning. Otherwise, select All to display all activities.
Default value: | All
Type | Select the type of activity to display in the activity list.
Default value: | All types
Status | Display activities by status.
Default value: | All statuses
State | Display activities by state.
Default value: | All states
Date | Display activities that occurred within a given time frame.
Default value: | All time
Owner | Displays the alerts assigned to a given user Displays the tasks this user performed
Default value: | All owners that have previously been assigned to an alert
Support state | Displays activities by service alert status.
Default value: | All service alerts

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