Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management User's Guide

6.4.4 Setting the alarm conditions

To set the alarm conditions:

Set the alarm conditions.
For example, if you want to monitor the busy state of a processor for the PFM - Agent for Platform (Windows), issue a Warning alarm when the usage of the processor exceeds 80% and issue an Abnormal alarm when it exceeds 90%, you can specify the following settings:
Record: System Overview (PI)
Field: CPU%
Condition: >
Abnormal value: 90
Warning value: 80
You can search fields for a character string by clicking the Search Fields button. For details on searching for fields, see (1) Searching for fields.

Note

The evaluation of whether an alarm is in an abnormal condition is performed only after Warning conditions are met.

Therefore, you must specify conditions for the Abnormal condition that will also be met for the Warning condition.

Figure 6-6 New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window

Click the Add button.
The conditional expressions are added to both Abnormal condition and Warning condition.
You can set multiple conditional expressions. Multiple conditional expressions are combined with Boolean AND operators. The alarm is issued only when all of the expressions are met.
Note that when you select a conditional expression already added to Abnormal condition or Warning condition, and then set an alarm condition, clicking the Update button overwrites the selected conditional expression.

Reference note:

You can use alphabetical characters (upper-case and lower-case) when you specify a string for the Abnormal value or Warning value in the conditional expression. The system distinguishes between upper and lower-case characters. You can also use the wildcard character (*). For example, by specifying item name=*AAA*, you can monitor any string that contains the substring AAA. Note that if you want to specify a backslash sign (\) just before the wildcard character, you must specify \\.

Click the Next > button.
You are directed to the New Alarm > Action window. Go to 6.4.5 Setting the actions.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Searching for fields

(1) Searching for fields

This section describes how to use the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window to search for fields. You can include search results from the Field pull-down menu in the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window.

To search for fields using the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window:

Click the Search fields button in the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window.
The New Alarm > Alarm Conditions > Search Fields window appears.

Select the target records from the Records to search pull-down menu.
The items of the pull-down menu are as follows:

--All records--
Select this option to search for all records.

A list of record names of the selected agent
A list of record names of the selected agent is displayed in alphabetical order.

Enter a character string for the field search into Keywords to find and click the Search button.
The search results appear in the information frame.

When --All records-- is selected as the target record
The search results are listed for each record in the Search results record(s) window.
If you click the anchor part of the relevant record, the search results are listed for each field in the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions > Search Fields window.

When a record name is selected as the target record
The searched fields are listed in the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions > Search Fields window.

Select the radio button of the field that you want to select, and then click the OK button.
The original New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window appears and the selected fields are included in the Field pull-down menu.

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