HP P6000 Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 37)

Threshold monitoring methods
The two methods of adding a performance object to threshold monitoring are by creating and
associating a threshold profile with the object, or creating a Custom threshold profile for the
performance object.
Threshold profile
You can configure threshold settings and associate them with an object type. The configured
threshold profile can then be uniformly selected across performance objects that belong to the
selected object type. A threshold profile acts as a template and is bound to the object type for
which it is created. It is useful when you want to perform threshold monitoring of performance of
multiple objects for the same set of counters and threshold levels. The following illustrates the use
of a threshold profile:
Sample threshold profile: The following table describes the threshold profile, Storage_Profile,
configured for the Storage Systems object type:
Notify starting at Major threshold level Minor threshold level Counter
Minor 40 30 Total Host Req/s
Minor 50 40 Total Host MB/s
If you apply the Storage_Profile settings on Storage_1 and Storage_2, HP P6000 Performance
Advisor monitors the performance of both storage systems for the counters and threshold levels. If
configured, the email and SNMP notifications are also generated when the performance of
Storage_1 and Storage_2 reaches or drops below the minor threshold level.
Custom threshold profile
You can specify threshold settings for every performance object that you want to monitor. When
you add or edit the monitoring settings for an object, you can select the counters and specify the
threshold levels. Once applied, the setting is unique to the performance object and cannot be
associated with other performance objects, even if they belong to the same object type. The
following illustrates this:
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