6.4.2 Creating an alarm (setting the basic information)
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Log on to PFM - Web Console from the Web browser of the monitoring console.
You must log on as a user with administrator user permissions.
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In the navigation frame of the main window, select the Alarms tab.
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In the navigation frame, select the folder of the PFM - Agent product to create an alarm table.
The selected folder is marked with a checkmark.
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In the navigation frame, select the folder of the PFM - Agent or PFM - RM product for which you want to create an alarm table.
The selected alarm table is marked with a checkmark.
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In the method frame, select New Alarm.
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In the General Settings area of the New Alarm > Main Information window in the information area, set the basic information for the alarm.
- Alarm name
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You can use a maximum of 20 bytes of double-byte characters and single byte alphanumeric characters, spaces, and the following single-byte symbols: % - ( ) _ . / @ []
- Alarm Message
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You can use a maximum of 255 bytes of single and double-byte characters. The message can contain a combination of single and double-byte characters. This item can be omitted.
Product displays the product (data model) that you have selected in the navigation frame. Alarm table name displays the name of the alarm table that you have selected in the navigation frame.
For example, when you want to define an alarm to monitor the busy state of the processor, you can specify the following settings:
Alarm name: Usage of CPU
Alarm message: CPU is at %CVS% utilization
- Reference note:
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You can use variables such as %SCT and %HNS for the Alarm message setting. For further details on the variables, see the chapter describing the New Alarm > Main Information window or the Edit > Main Information window in the manual JP1/Performance Management Reference.
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If you have selected Monitor whether the value exists, the value specified in the conditional expression does not exist when the alarm is reported. In that case, a variable %CVS specified in the Message or the Mail Subject is replaced with an empty string.
- Note 2
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If the message text contains a multi-byte character that follows %CVS, the text might be corrupted after variable expansion. Make sure that there are no multi-byte characters following the %CVS variable.
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In the Advanced settings area of the New Alarm > Main Information window, set a monitoring time and damping for the alarm.
For example, if the alarm table is defined to monitor the busy state of the processor, and you want to monitor the target 24 hours a day and be notified when the threshold has been exceeded two times over three monitoring intervals, you can specify the following settings:
Enable alarm: selected
Notify when the state changed: selected
State changes for the alarm: selected
Evaluate all data: not selected
Always monitor: selected
Report alarm when the following damping condition is reached.: Selected
2 occurrence(s) during 3 Interval(s)
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If you specify a monitoring time range, the monitoring period ends at the 59th second of the specified end time. For example, if you specify a monitoring time range from 9:00 to 21:00, monitoring starts at 9:00:00 and ends at 21:00:59.
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For details on how alarms are evaluated when a monitoring time range and damping conditions are specified, see 6.9.3 Notes on evaluating alarms.
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Click the Next > button.
The available alarm conditions depend on whether Monitor whether the value exists has been selected.
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When Monitor whether the value exists has been selected:
You are guided to the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window. Go to 6.4.3 Setting a value whose existence is to be monitored to set the conditional expression for monitoring to check all of the fields for the value.
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When Monitor whether the value exists has not been selected:
You are directed to the New Alarm > Alarm Conditions window. Go to 6.4.4 Setting the alarm conditions to set the alarm conditions.
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