Batch inputs

Purpose

This monitor is dedicated to the monitoring of batch inputs. It will look for batch input sessions with error status occurred within a period of time.

Notifies with an alarm when a batch input session is in error

Configuration hints

You can customize the monitoring for a specific client, creator and session. Use the surveillance table to adjust the monitoring settings: - Client - Creator - Session - Thresholds -Severity

Make sure that the analyze period is at least greater than the schedule time.

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	Use this field to activate or deactivate a line of configuration.
Period (min)	Period: Defines how far in the past the monitor will look for batch input sessions at each check
Client	A filter to match only a subset of clients.
Creator	A filter to match only a given creator or subset of creators.
Batch input session	A filter to match only a given session name.
Max errors	The maximum number of failed sessions matching the filters.
Aggregate	If checked, the threshold will be compared to the total number of sessions matching the filter. If not checked, one alarm per failed session will be sent.
Severity	The level of severity of the alarm generated by this line of surveillance.
Auto clear	If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore.
Alarm tag	This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will contain the actual generated message and can be used such as: “my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix”. By default, tag will be used as prefix.
Alarm	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation.
Metric	If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for metric generation.
Report	If checked, this line of surveillance will used for showing threshold and severity in the daily report

Examples

Active	Period (min)	Client	Creator	Batch input session	Max errors	Aggregate	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	60	*	*	*	1	false	MAJOR	true	true	false	false

Effect : Report with a MAJOR alarm any failed batch input session that occured in the last 60 minutes.

Examples

Active	Period (min)	Client	Creator	Batch input session	Max errors	Aggregate	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric	Report
true	60	800	jdoe	*	10	true	MAJOR	true	true	false	false

Effect : Sends a MAJOR alarm if 10 or more failed sessions occured for user jdoe on client 800.

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
FAILED_BATCHINPUTS_NUMBER	Errors	[CLIENT][CREATOR][SESSION]	Send the number of batch input sessions with error matching the filter.