HP XP Performance Advisor Software - Manual (Page 118)

You can also view the corresponding performance graphs for components on which alarms are
generated. The following are the high level sequence of steps you must perform to activate alarms
and view history for configured alarms:
1. Click PA and DB Settings+Configure Alarms in the left pane.
2. Select components in the component selection tree under Data Source.
3. Select
the associated metrics for which the components must be monitored from the Available
Metrics
Choose Metrics Category list. Click Add alarm(s) for the selected components to be
displayed
in the Alarms table. The selected components can belong to an individual XP or an
XP7 disk array, or a custom group. For more information on selecting components and
metrics,
see
“Adding
or removing metric values” (page 119)
.
4. In the Alarms table, select an alarm record and configure threshold, number of occurrences,
alarm notification settings, and enable alarms on the components. For more information, see
“Configuring notification and monitoring settings” (page 120) .
5. After you enable alarms on components, HP XP7 Performance Advisor does the following:
a.
Collects the latest performance values of components in every collection frequency cycle
and compares them with the set threshold levels.
b. HP XP7 Performance Advisor dispatches the appropriate alarm notifications, only when
the performance value of a component has exceeded threshold for the performance cycles
set as occurrence.
For example, while configuring the alarm if the user sets occurrence value as 2 for a
component, HP XP7 Performance Advisor dispatches a notification only when the
performance value of the metric remains above threshold for two consecutive performance
cycles. But any drop in performance value below the threshold post a serious alarm will
be immediately notified to the user.
HP XP7 Performance Advisor also displays the appropriate time for the above-mentioned
events under Time Posted, Time Updated, and Time Dispatched in the Alarm History table.
For more information, see
“Alarm History screen” (page 132) .
c. Logs a record for those components in the Alarm History table (see the following image)
(Monitoring+Alarm History). HP XP7 Performance Advisor starts logging records from the
subsequent data collection cycle when it starts monitoring the selected components.
NOTE:
•
If you configure alarms at the host group level, and then edit a host in any port, the alarm
notification is sent only for the common host group that is configured. The notifications are
not sent for the edited host group. To receive notifications for the edited host group, re-configure
the alarms.
•
If you change the name of a host group that has alarms configured, delete and re-configure
all alarms for that host group.
118 Configuring alarms and managing events