6.8.6 Checking the properties of an alarm table

You can display a list of the alarm tables defined for a specific PFM - Agent or PFM - RM, or a list of defined alarms and a list of the agents bound for a specific alarm table.

Note:: You cannot view the definition information of an individual alarm, such as the alarm threshold. To view the definition information of an alarm, you must use jpctool alarm export command to export the alarm definition to be checked. For details on how to export alarm definitions, see 6.7.3 Modifying an alarm definition.

Organization of this subsection

(1) Displaying a list of alarm tables
(2) Viewing the information for the alarms in an alarm table

(1) Displaying a list of alarm tables

To list the alarm tables defined for a specific PFM - Agent or PFM - RM, you can use the jpctool alarm list command.

Log on to the host where PFM - Manager is installed.

Execute the jpctool alarm list command.

For example, execute the following command when you want to view the alarm table names defined in the PFM - Agent for Platform (UNIX):

jpctool alarm list -key UNIX

The output is shown below. In this example, you can see that the monitoring template and the alarm table alarmtable1 are defined.

Product ID:U
Alarm Table Name:
  alarmtable1
  PFM UNIX Solution Alarms 6.70
  PFM UNIX Solution Alarms 7.00

The following table describes the information displayed by executing the jpctool alarm list command with only the -key option specified.

Table 6‒13: Information displayed by the `jpctool alarm list` command (-key option specified)
Order	Information	Description
1	`Product ID`	The product ID indicating the PFM - Agent or PFM - RM type. For details on the product ID for each PFM - Agent or PFM - RM, see the ID list in an appendix of each PFM - Agent or PFM - RM manual.
2	`Alarm Table Name`	The alarm table name.

For further details on the jpctool alarm list command, see the chapter that describes the command in the manual JP1/Performance Management Reference.

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(2) Viewing the information for the alarms in an alarm table

To list the alarms defined in and the agents bound to a specific alarm table, you can use the jpctool alarm list command.

Log on to the host where PFM - Manager is installed.

Execute the jpctool alarm list command.

For example, execute the following command when you want to view the information for the alarms defined in the monitoring template PFM UNIX Solution Alarms 7.00 of the PFM - Agent for Platform (UNIX):

jpctool alarm list -key UNIX -table "PFM UNIX Solution Alarms 7.00"

The output is shown below. In this example, you can see that all the alarms in the monitoring template are enabled, and that the monitoring template is bound to the hosts hostA and hostB.

Product ID:U
DataModelVersion:3.0
Alarm Table Name:PFM UNIX Solution Alarms 7.00
Alarm Name: 
  Disk Service Time   [active]
  I/O Wait Time       [active]
  Kernel CPU          [active]
  Pagescans           [active]
  Run Queue           [active]
  Swap Outs           [active]
  User CPU            [active]
 
The Bound Agent:
  UA1hostA
  UA1hostB

The following table describes the information displayed by executing the jpctool alarm list command with the -key and -table options specified.

Table 6‒14: Information displayed by the `jpctool alarm list` command (-key and -table options specified)
Order	Information	Description
1	`Product ID`	The product ID indicating the PFM - Agent or PFM - RM type. For details on the product ID for each PFM - Agent or PFM - RM, see the ID list in an appendix of each PFM - Agent or PFM - RM manual.
2	`Data Model Version`	The version of the data model.
3	`Alarm Table Name`	The alarm table name.
4	`Alarm Name`	Indicates whether the alarm name is valid and the alarm is enabled. `active`: the alarm is enabled. `inactive`: the alarm is disabled.
5	`The Bound Agent`	Indicates the service ID of the agent for the alarm table to be bound to.

For further details on the jpctool alarm list command, see the chapter that describes the command in the manual JP1/Performance Management Reference.

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