6.6.1 Changing the association between an alarm table and a monitoring agent
An alarm table is a collection of several alarms. For Performance Management to monitor with alarms, you must associate one or more alarm tables with a monitoring agent. This association is known as binding. Canceling a bound alarm table is called unbinding. You can bind an alarm table to multiple monitoring agents, or bind one or more alarm tables to a monitoring agent. To bind more than one alarm table to a single monitoring agent, you must enable the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables using PFM - Manager, beforehand. For details on how to set this functionality, see the chapter that describes installation and setup in the JP1/Performance Management Planning and Configuration Guide.
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(1) When the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables is enabled
If the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables is enabled, you can both bind and unbind alarm tables in a single window.
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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 Agents tab.
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In the navigation frame of the Agents window, select Products from the Display Style pull-down menu.
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In the navigation frame, select the monitoring agent to bind to the alarm table.
The selected agent is marked with a checkmark.
If you select Multi select, you can select multiple agents.
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To bind an agent monitored by PFM - RM, select the appropriate remote or group agent as the monitored agent.
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In the method frame, select the Alarm Table Bind Settings method.
In the information frame, the Alarm Table Bind Settings [Select Alarm Tables] window appears.
For binding:
Select one or more alarm tables to bind. After you select alarm tables, the selected alarm tables are marked with a checkmark. You can select no more than 50 alarm tables.
For unbinding:
Clear the selection for the alarm table to unbind it.
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You can only bind or unbind alarms on an alarm table basis. Therefore, you cannot bind or unbind individual alarms separately.
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You can search for an alarm table by entering a search string in the text box and clicking Filter. You cannot use the Show User Alarms or Show Template Alarms options while a filter is applied.
You cannot apply filter conditions in PFM - Manager version 09-00 or earlier.
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Click the OK button.
The alarm table selected in step 5 is bound to or unbound from the agent selected in step 4.
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When an alarm table is bound or unbound, all the alarms bound to the monitoring agent are reset to Normal Status. If an alarm table is bound to a monitoring agent that has one or more alarm tables already bound to it, all the alarms in the alarm tables including the existing alarm tables are reset to Normal. These alarms are then set to their actual state the next time they are evaluated.
(2) When the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables is disabled
(a) Associating an alarm table with a monitoring agent
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Each agent can only have one alarm table bound to it. If you bind an alarm table to an agent already bound to another alarm table, the existing alarm table is unbound automatically and the new alarm table is bound.
When the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables is disabled, you can only bind one alarm table to an agent. Alternately, you can use the Quick Guide to set simplified alarms. For details on the Quick Guide, see 6.5 Setting alarms using the Web browser (Quick Guide).
To bind an alarm table when the functionality for binding multiple alarm tables is disabled:
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From the monitoring console Web browser, log on to PFM - Web 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 Agents tab.
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In the navigation frame of the Agents window, select Products from the Display Style pull-down menu.
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In the navigation frame, select the monitoring agent to bind to the alarm table
The selected agent is marked with a checkmark.
If you select Multi select, you can select multiple agents.
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To bind an agent monitored by PFM - RM, select the appropriate remote or group agent as the monitored agent.
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In the method frame, select the Bind Alarm Table.
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In the Bind Alarm Table to Agents [Select Alarm Table] window in the information frame, select the alarm table to which to bind the monitoring agent.
The selected alarm table is marked with a checkmark.
You cannot select multiple alarm tables.
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You can bind alarms only on an alarm table basis. You cannot bind individual alarms separately.
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You can search for an alarm table by entering a search string in the text box and clicking Filter.
You cannot apply filter conditions in PFM - Manager version 09-00 or earlier.
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Click the OK button.
The alarm table selected in step 6 is bound to the agent selected in step 4.
(b) Unbinding an alarm table bound to a monitoring agent
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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 Agents tab.
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In the navigation frame of the Agents window, select Products from the Display Style pull-down menu.
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In the navigation frame, select the monitoring agent to unbind the alarm table from.
The selected agent is marked with a checkmark. If you select Multi select, you can select multiple agents.
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To unbind an agent monitored by PFM - RM, select the appropriate remote or group agent as the monitored agent.
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In the method frame, select the UnBind Alarm Table.
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To unbind the alarm table, click the OK button in the confirmation message box.
The alarm table is unbound from the monitoring agent selected in step 4.
(3) Notes on the limit on the number of alarms and alarm tables
You can create up to 250 alarms in one alarm table. In addition, you can bind up to 50 alarm tables to one agent.
Binding a large number of alarms to PFM - Agent or PFM - RM in the Performance Management system might delay the processing of PFM - Manager, PFM - Agent, or PFM - RM. We recommend that you keep the number of bound alarms within the following limits:
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250 alarms per agent.
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20,000 alarms across the entire Performance Management system.