List of alarms

A table containing one or more alarms is called an alarm table. The alarms defined in the monitoring template of PFM - Agent for Platform are stored in the alarm tables in the UNIX directory, which is displayed on the Alarms tab in PFM - Web Console.

The following lists the alarm table names.

PFM UNIX Template Alarms 09.00
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [APP] 09.10
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [CPU] 09.00
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [DSK] 09.00
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [MEM] 09.00
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [NET] 09.00
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [PS] 09.10

Square brackets ([ ]) in an alarm table name:

The monitoring item applicable to the alarm table is enclosed in square brackets ([ ]). The alarm table without a square-bracket suffix consists of basic alarms.

Number at the end of an alarm table name:

This value indicates the alarm table version.

For PFM - Agent for Platform, the Alarms tree might display an alarm table of a version that is not available in the Performance Management system being used. When using an alarm table defined in the monitoring template, check the alarm table version being used by the Performance Management system and version compatibility. For details about the alarm table version and version compatibility, see I. Version Compatibility.

The table below shows the alarms defined in the monitoring template of PFM - Agent for Platform.

Table 8‒1: Alarm list
Alarm table name	Alarm name	Monitoring target
PFM UNIX Template Alarms 09.00	Disk Service Time	Average I/O operation time for a device (seconds).
	I/O Wait Time	Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host is waiting for I/O (%).
	Kernel CPU	Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in kernel mode (%).
	Pagescans	Number of page scans that occurred per second. This alarm cannot be used on Linux.
	Run Queue	Average number of threads waiting in the run queue in the past five minutes.
	Swap Outs	Number of pages taken out per second by swap-out processing.
	User CPU	Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in user mode (%).
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [CPU] 09.00	Kernel CPU	Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in kernel mode (%).
	User CPU	Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host operates in user mode (%).
	Run Queue	Average number of threads waiting in the run queue in the past five minutes.
	CPU Per Processor(K)	CPU usage for a processor executed in kernel mode (%).
	CPU Per Processor(U)	CPU usage for a processor executed in user mode (%).
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [MEM] 09.00	Pagescans	Number of page scans that occurred per second. This alarm cannot be used on Linux.
	Swap Outs	Number of pages taken out per second by swap-out processing.
	Alloc Mem Mbytes	Amount of used virtual memory (MB).
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [DSK] 09.00	I/O Wait Time	Percentage of time during which the processor for the overall host is waiting for I/O (average value for each processor).
	Disk Service Time	Average I/O operation time for a device (seconds).
	File System Free(L)	Unused area (MB) in the local file system.
	File System Free(R)	Unused area (MB) in the remote file system.
	Disk Busy %	Disk busy rate (%).
	Disk Queue	Queue length of devices for which the amount of I/O processing per second is 1.
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [NET] 09.00	Network Rcvd/sec	Number of packets received per second.
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [PS] 09.10	Process End	Process name.
	Process Alive	Number of processes being executed by the workgroup.
	Process Existence	Program name.
PFM UNIX Template Alarms [APP] 09.10	Application Status	Status of the application for which information about process operating status is being collected.

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