2.4.3 Displaying the reports associated with alarms

You can display the report associated with a selected alarm from each monitoring agent's Display Alarm Status window. If an alarm's status is Warning or Abnormal, display for troubleshooting purposes the report associated with that alarm.

Prerequisites

You can display only the report that has been associated with a particular alarm. For alarm templates, their associations are predefined.

Procedure

1. Select the target monitoring agent and click Display Alarm Status.

   The alarm table bound to the monitoring agent is displayed so that you can check the status of the alarms.

   

2. Click the () icon to the left of the alarm whose status is Warning or Abnormal.

   The report associated with that alarm is displayed.

   The System Overview report is displayed for the Available Mbytes icon.

   Note

   The format of a report that is displayed depends on the alarm definition. The report display formats include tables, lists, and graphs. Graphs include eight types:

   • Column graph

   • Stacked column graph

   • Bar graph

   • Stacked bar graph

   • Pie graph

   • Line graph

   • Area graph

   • Stacked area graph

3. Analyze the displayed report and determine the cause of the problem.

Example of report analysis

If you want to find out from the System Overview report why the amount of unused physical memory has shrunk, check the items that might be related to the physical memory. This example checks Page Faults/sec, which indicates the number of page faults per second.

The figure below indicates that there are many page faults occurring currently. This might be related to a shortage of physical memory.

Postrequisites

If the cause of the problem could not be determined, display drilldown reports for further troubleshooting.

Related topics

• 2.4.4 Displaying drilldown reports

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