Job Management Partner 1 Version 10, Job Management Partner 1/Performance Management - Agent Option for Platform Description, User's Guide and Reference

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List of alarms

A table containing one or more alarms is called an alarm table. The alarms defined in the monitoring template of PFM - Agent for Platform are stored in the alarm tables in the UNIX directory, which is displayed on the Alarms tab in PFM - Web Console.

The following lists the alarm table names.

Square brackets ([ ]) in an alarm table name:
The monitoring item applicable to the alarm table is enclosed in square brackets ([ ]). The alarm table without a square-bracket suffix consists of basic alarms.

Number at the end of an alarm table name:
This value indicates the alarm table version.
For PFM - Agent for Platform, the Alarms tree might display an alarm table of a version that is not available in the Performance Management system being used. When using an alarm table defined in the monitoring template, check the alarm table version being used by the Performance Management system and version compatibility. For details about the alarm table version and version compatibility, see I. Version Compatibility.

The table below shows the alarms defined in the monitoring template of PFM - Agent for Platform.

Table 7-1 Alarm list

Alarm table name Alarm name Monitoring target
PFM UNIX Template Alarms 09.00 Disk Service Time Average I/O operation time for a device (seconds).
I/O Wait Time Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host is waiting for I/O (%).
Kernel CPU Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in kernel mode (%).
Pagescans Number of page scans that occurred per second.
This alarm cannot be used on Linux.
Run Queue Average number of threads waiting in the run queue in the past five minutes.
Swap Outs Number of pages taken out per second by swap-out processing.
User CPU Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in user mode (%).
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [CPU] 09.00 Kernel CPU Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in kernel mode (%).
User CPU Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in user mode (%).
Run Queue Average number of threads waiting in the run queue in the past five minutes.
CPU Per Processor(K) CPU usage for a processor executed in kernel mode (%).
CPU Per Processor(U) CPU usage for a processor executed in user mode (%).
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [MEM] 09.00 Pagescans Number of page scans that occurred per second. This alarm cannot be used on Linux.
Swap Outs Number of pages taken out per second by swap-out processing.
Alloc Mem Mbytes Amount of used virtual memory (MB).
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [DSK] 09.00 I/O Wait Time Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host is waiting for I/O (average value for each processor).
Disk Service Time Average I/O operation time for a device (seconds).
File System Free(L) Unused area (MB) in the local file system.
File System Free(R) Unused area (MB) in the remote file system.
Disk Busy % Disk busy rate (%).
Disk Queue Queue length of devices for which the amount of I/O processing per second is 1.
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [NET] 09.00 Network Rcvd/sec Number of packets received per second.
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [PS] 09.10 Process End Process name.
Process Alive Number of processes being executed by the workgroup.
Process Existence Program name.
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [APP] 09.10 Application Status Status of the application for which information about process operating status is being collected.