6.2.1 How to set up and operate alarms
Alarms are set up and operated by using the Alarms window in PFM - Web Console or by using a command.
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Alarm tables are displayed in an alarm tree. You can display the alarm tree in one of two formats:
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User-created alarm tables are displayed under User Alarms, and monitoring templates are displayed under Template Alarms.
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User-created alarm tables and monitoring templates are displayed together in a single tree under the root Alarms.
You can specify whether to separate or integrate the alarm trees by changing the value of the displayAlarmTablesSeparately parameter in the initialization file (config.xml). For details on how to configure the initialization file (config.xml), see the chapter describing installation and setup of Performance Management in the Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management Planning and Configuration Guide.
You can set up alarms in the following ways:
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Define a new alarm table or individual alarms.
Create a new alarm table for your system environment, and then define the alarms. You can add new alarms to that alarm table at a later time.
In addition, you can use the Quick Guide to set simplified alarms. Alarms set using the Quick Guide can be bound to an agent.
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Use an existing alarm table or alarms.
You can use the following methods:
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Use the monitoring template.
The monitoring template is a set of alarms, which necessary information has been preset, included with each PFM - Agent or PFM - RM. When you use the monitoring template, any active alarms in the monitoring template are enabled when PFM- Agent or PFM - RM is started.
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Customize the monitoring template.
You can copy the monitoring template and customize it to match your monitoring objectives.
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Use an existing alarm table or alarms.
You can make a copy of, and then customize one of the already user-defined alarm tables or alarms.
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To use alarms, associate (or bind) the alarm table defined above with a monitoring agent.
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By using the jpctool alarm command to create an alarm definition file, you can create up to 250 alarms at once. This is a useful technique when setting up multiple alarms at the same time to run on multiple servers in a large-scale system.