List of alarms

A table containing alarms is called an alarm table. The alarms defined in the monitoring template for PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications are in alarm table format and are stored in the SAP System folder that is displayed on the Alarms page of PFM - Web Console.

The alarm tables are identified as follows:

PFM SAP System Template Alarms 10.00
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Background Processing] 10.00
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Background Service] 10.00
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Dialog Utilization] 10.00

Information in square brackets in an alarm table name

Square brackets enclose the name of that alarm table's monitoring item. An alarm table without square brackets consists of basic alarms

10.00 at the end of an alarm table name

Indicates the version of the alarm table.

For PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications, alarm tables for a version that is not supported by the Performance Management system being used might be displayed among the alarms. When you use alarms defined in a monitoring template, check the version of the alarm table used in the Performance Management system for version compatibility. For details about the alarm table version and version compatibility, see Appendix I. Version Compatibility.

The following table lists and describes the alarms defined in the monitoring template of PFM - Agent for Enterprise Applications.

Table 9‒1: List of alarms
Alarm table name	Alarm name	Monitoring target
PFM SAP System Template Alarms 10.00	`Buffer - CUA`	SAP buffer (CUA buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - FieldDescri`	SAP buffer (field description buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - GenericKey`	SAP buffer (generic key buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - InitialReco`	SAP buffer (initial records buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - Program`	SAP buffer (program buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - Screen`	SAP buffer (screen buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - ShortNameTA`	SAP buffer (short nametab buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - SingleRecor`	SAP buffer (single record buffer) hit rate
	`Buffer - TableDefini`	SAP buffer (table definition buffer) hit rate
	`Dialog ResponseTime`	Dialog task's response time
	`Extended Memory`	Usage of extended memory
	`Heap Memory`	Usage of heap memory
	`Paging Area`	Usage of the paging area
	`Roll Area`	Usage of the roll area
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Background Processing] 10.00	`SystemWideQueue`	Number of jobs waiting to be executed (average in the entire system)
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Background Service] 10.00	`ServerSpecificQueue`	Number of released jobs waiting to be executed
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Background Service] 10.00	`Utilization %`	Average usage of the server's background work processes
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Dialog Utilization] 10.00	`QueueLength %`	Average usage of the dispatcher queue for dialog work processes
PFM SAP System Template Alarms [Dialog Utilization] 10.00	`Utilization %`	Average usage of the application server's dialog processes

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