Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management - Agent Option for Virtual Machine Description, User's Guide and Reference

List of alarms

A table that lists and describes one or more alarms is called an alarm table. Alarms defined in a monitoring template of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine are stored in alarm table format in the VirtualMachine folder, which is displayed under the Alarms tab in PFM - Web Console.

An alarm table name is as expressed as follows.

• PFM VirtualMachine Template Alarms 09.01

09.01 at the end of the alarm table name

Indicates an alarm table version.

When you use an alarm that is defined in a monitoring template, check the version of the alarm table being used by the Performance Management system and its version compatibility. For details about the alarm table version and version compatibility, see H. Version Compatibility.

The table below shows the alarms defined in the monitoring templates of PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine.

Table 4-1 Alarm list

Alarm name	Monitoring target	Monitoring purpose
Host Disk Usage	Logical disk usage in a physical server	Operation status monitoring
Host Memory Usage	Memory usage in a physical server	Performance information monitoring
VM CPU Insufficient	CPU insufficiency in a virtual machine	Performance information monitoring
VM Disk Abort Cmds	Number of discarded disk commands in a virtual machine	Operation status monitoring
VM Disk Usage	Logical disk usage in a virtual machine	Operation status monitoring
VM Status	Virtual machine status	Operation status monitoring

PFM - Agent for Virtual Machine provides as monitoring templates an operating information monitoring alarm that monitors whether the system is operating normally, and a performance information monitoring alarm that monitors whether the system is providing sufficient services. Therefore, set the alarms that match your objectives.

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