I.3 Monitoring template (alarm)

(1) Format of alarm explanations

Alarms are listed in alphabetical order.

Alarm name

Shows the name of the alarm in the monitoring template.

Synopsis

Provides a summary of what the alarm can monitor.

Main settings

Shows a table of the main settings of the alarm. The settings in the table correspond to the items shown in the Properties window that appears when you click an alarm icon in the Alarms page of the PFM - Web Console, and then click the Properties method. For details about each alarm setting, see the Properties window for the particular alarm in PFM - Web Console.

Hyphens (--) in the Setting column of the table indicate that any value set for the item will be invalid. Where Abnormal condition and Warning condition have the same value under Alarm Conditions in the table, an alarm event is issued only for the abnormal condition.

Associated report

Shows the name of the report associated with the alarm in the monitoring template. You can view the report by clicking an agent icon in the Agents page of the PFM - Web Console, and then clicking the icon for the Display Alarm Status method.

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(2) List of alarms

The alarms defined in the monitoring template of the health check agent are summarized in the alarm table PFM Health Check Template Alarm VV.RR, where VV.RR represents the version of the alarm table. This table resides in the HealthCheck folder in the Alarms page of PFM - Web Console.

The following table shows the data model and alarm table versions that correspond to the health check agent versions.

The table below lists the alarms defined in the monitoring template.

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(3) Considerations when creating alarms

Health check events and alarm events are issued at different times. Health check events are issued each time a host completes polling, and alarm events are evaluated and issued at record collection intervals. When you use monitoring template alarms, alarm events are evaluated after all target agent hosts have completed polling. This is because the alarms refer to the PD_HC and PC_HOST records. If you create alarms, remember that they are evaluated at the record collection intervals specified in the condition expression. In addition, alarms are also issued from the host running the health check agent (PFM - Manager host). When you set an action for an alarm, if you specify the action handler as LOCAL, the action is executed on the PFM - Manager host, rather than on the PFM - Agent or PFM - RM host.

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(4) Status Change

Synopsis

The Status Change alarm monitors for variations in the health check statuses of the monitored agents. The alarm is issued once for each agent whose health check status has changed. Use this alarm when you require alarms to be issued as often as there are agent events (health check events). This alarm is disabled by default.

The severity of the alarm is always Warning, regardless of the health check status that the agent has entered.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	Alarm table version 8.11: HealthCheck(3.0) Alarm table version 09.00: HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Status of %CVS2 changed to %CVS3
	Enable alarm	Not selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Health Check Detail (PD_HC)
	Abnormal condition	Agent Op Status Change = "-1" AND (Agent = "*" AND Agent Op Status = "*")
	Warning condition	Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND (Agent = "*" AND Agent Op Status = "*")
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Recent Past/System Overview (Historical)

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(5) Abnormal Status (A)

Synopsis

The Abnormal Status (A) alarm monitors the health check status of agents. The alarm is issued once for each agent that enters an abnormal status (any status other than Not Supported or Running). Use this alarm when you want to detect abnormal health check statuses on an agent level. This alarm is disabled by default.

The severity of the alarm is Warning if the agent has entered Incomplete status, and Abnormal if the agent has entered Stopped, Unconfirmed, or Host Not Available status.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	Alarm table version 8.11: HealthCheck(3.0) Alarm table version 09.00: HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Status of %CVS2 changed to %CVS3
	Enable alarm	Not selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Health Check Detail (PD_HC)
	Abnormal condition	Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND (Agent = "*" AND (Agent Op Status = "*" AND Agent Op Status by Num > "8"))
	Warning condition	Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND (Agent = "*" AND (Agent Op Status = "*" AND Agent Op Status by Num > "4"))
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Recent Past/System Overview (Historical)

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(6) Abnormal Status (S)

Synopsis

The Abnormal Status (S) alarm monitors the health check status of agents. The alarm is issued only once during any polling period where there are agents in abnormal status (any status other than Not Supported or Running). Use this alarm when you want to detect abnormal health check statuses on a system-wide level. This alarm is enabled by default.

The severity of the alarm is Warning if one or more agents has entered Incomplete status, and Abnormal if one or more agents has entered Stopped, Unconfirmed, or Host Not Available status.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	Alarm table version 8.11: HealthCheck(3.0) Alarm table version 09.00: HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Transition to abnormal status was detected
	Enable alarm	Selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Not selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Health Check Detail (PD_HC)
	Abnormal condition	Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND Agent Op Status by Num > "8"
	Warning condition	Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND Agent Op Status by Num > "4"
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Recent Past/System Overview (Historical)

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(7) Host Status Change

Outline

The Host Status Change alarm monitors for variations in the operating statuses of the monitored agents. The alarm is issued once for each agent host whose operating status has changed. Use this alarm when you want to notify the change of the host's operating status by reporting an alarm. This alarm is disabled by default. The severity of the alarm is always Warning, regardless of the operating status of the host.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Host status of %CVS2 changed to %CVS3
	Enable alarm	Not selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Host Detail(PD_HOST)
	Abnormal condition	Status Change = "-1" AND (Host = "*" AND Status = "*")
	Warning condition	Status Change = "1" AND (Host = "*" AND Status = "*")
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Real-Time/Host Status (Real-Time) (4.0)

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(8) Host Not Available

Outline

The Host Not Available alarm monitors the operating status of the target agent host. The alarm is issued once for each agent host that enters a Stopped status. You can use this alarm to detect operating hosts that have terminated. This alarm is disabled by default. The severity of the alarm is Abnormal.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Host status of %CVS2 changed to Not Available
	Enable alarm	Not selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Host Detail(PD_HOST)
	Abnormal condition	Status Change = "1" AND (Host = "*" AND Status by Num= "1")
	Warning condition	Status Change = "1" AND (Host = "*" AND Status by Num = "1")
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Real-Time/Host Status (Real-Time) (4.0)

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(9) Service Status Change

Outline

The Service Status Change alarm monitors for variations in the health check statuses of the monitored agents. The alarm is issued once for each agent whose health check status has changed. This alarm is disabled by default.

As with the Status Change alarm, use this alarm when you require alarms to be issued as often as agent event (health check event) occurs. However, this alarm does not monitor remote agents. Therefore, this alarm is only useful for when you want to monitor PFM - Agent and PFM - RM that run as services when operating PFM - RM.

The severity of the alarm is always Warning, regardless of the health check status that the agent has entered.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Status of %CVS3 changed to %CVS4
	Enable alarm	Not selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Health Check Detail(PD_HC)
	Abnormal condition	Agent Category <> "Remote Agent" AND (Agent Op Status Change = "-1" AND (Agent = "*" AND Agent Op Status = "*"))
	Warning condition	Agent Category <> "Remote Agent" AND (Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND (Agent = "*" AND Agent Op Status = "*"))
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Recent Past/System Overview (Historical)

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(10) Service Abnormal (A)

Outline

The Service Abnormal (A) alarm monitors the health check status of agents. The alarm is issued once for each agent that enters an abnormal status (any status other than Not Supported or Running). This alarm is disabled by default.

As with the Abnormal Status (A) alarm, use this alarm when you want to detect abnormal health check statuses on an agent level. However, this alarm does not monitor remote agents. Therefore, this alarm is only useful for when you want to monitor PFM - Agent and PFM - RM that run as services when operating PFM - RM.

The severity of the alarm is Warning if the agent has entered an Incomplete status, and Abnormal if the agent has entered a Stopped, Unconfirmed, or Host Not Available status.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Status of %CVS3 changed to %CVS4
	Enable alarm	Not selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Health Check Detail(PD_HC)
	Abnormal condition	Agent Category <> "Remote Agent" AND (Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND (Agent = "*" AND (Agent Op Status = "*"AND Agent Op Status by Num > "8")))
	Warning condition	Agent Category <> "Remote Agent" AND (Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND (Agent = "*" AND (Agent Op Status = "*"AND Agent Op Status by Num > "4")))
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Recent Past/System Overview (Historical)

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(11) Service Abnormal (S)

Outline

The Service Abnormal (S) alarm monitors the health check status of agents. The alarm is issued only once during any polling period where there are agents in abnormal status (any status other than Not Supported or Running). This alarm is enabled by default.

As with the Abnormal Status (S) alarm, use this alarm when you want to detect abnormal health check statuses on a system-wide level. However, this alarm does not monitor remote agents. Therefore, this alarm is only useful for when you want to monitor PFM - Agent and PFM - RM that run as services when operating PFM - RM.

The severity of the alarm is Warning if the agent has entered an Incomplete status, and Abnormal if the agent has entered a Stopped, Unconfirmed, or Host Not Available status.

Main settings

Alarm properties in PFM - Web Console		Setting
Item	Details
Main Information	Product	HealthCheck(4.0)
	Alarm message	Transition to abnormal status was detected
	Enable alarm	Selected
	Alarm notification	Always notify
	Evaluate all data	Not selected
	Monitoring time range	Always monitor
	Damping	Not specified
Alarm conditions	Record	Health Check Detail(PD_HC)
	Abnormal condition	Agent Category <> "Remote Agent" AND (Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND Agent Op Status by Num > "8")
	Warning condition	Agent Category <> "Remote Agent" AND (Agent Op Status Change = "1"AND Agent Op Status by Num > "4")
Actions	Email	--
	Command	--
	SNMP	Abnormal or Warning

Associated report

Reports/HealthCheck/Troubleshooting/Recent Past/System Overview (Historical)

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