Selecting components and metrics, Adding or removing metric values – HP XP P9000 Performance Advisor Software User Manual
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IMPORTANT:
You can configure and activate alarms on components only if you have logged into P9000 Performance
Advisor as an Administrator, or a user who is granted administrator privileges.
Once the alarms are activated, you can view history for these alarms, which provides data on the
following:
•
When the performance of components went beyond or dropped below the set threshold limits
•
Time stamps of alarm notifications dispatched to the intended recipients
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 dis-
played in the Alarms table. The selected components can belong to an individual XP or a P9000
disk array, or a custom group. For more information on selecting components and metrics, see
“
Adding or removing metric values
4.
In the Alarms table, select an alarm record and configure threshold, alarm notification settings,
and enable alarms on the components. For more information, see “
5.
After you enable alarms on components, P9000 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.
Based on whether the performance values have exceeded or dropped below the threshold
level, P9000 Performance Advisor dispatches the appropriate alarm notifications.
P9000 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 “
c.
Logs a record for those components in the Alarm History table (see the following image)
(Monitoring > Alarm History). P9000 Performance Advisor starts logging records from the
subsequent data collection cycle when it starts monitoring the selected components.
Selecting components and metrics
You can configure alarms on XP and P9000 disk arrays, corresponding component types, or individual
components. To select components and metrics:
1.
Click PA and DB Settings > Alarms in the left pane.
Configuring alarms and managing events
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