Servers properties

Purpose

Monitor to make sure that some configuration properties of you server aren’t configured with values you don’t want. For example, you can have and alert every time the log level is set to something else than “low”.

Configuration hints

Use the button “Load servers” to get the list of servers from existing in your BO system. Then select the servers you want to monitor. To select the property you want to monitor select the rule in the surveillance table you want to edit and hit “Wizard” button. You will get a list of properties (with their current value) that you can monitor. Use the special character “*” to define a rule for all the servers

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	If checked, the rule will be active.
Server	The server(s) concerned by the rule
Property	The monitored property
Expected value	The value at which the property is expected to stay
Severity	The severity of the alarm
Auto clear	If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore.
Prefix	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.

Examples

Active	Server	Property	Expected value	Severity	Auto clear	Prefix	Alarm
true	*	LogLevel	Low	CRITICAL	true	true

Effect : An alarm will be generated if on one of the servers the property LogLevel is configured to something else than Low.