PI/XI consumer cache status

The goal of this monitor is to detect when a consumer cache has an error status

Configuration hints

This monitor has to be assigned to a Web portal connector of the target SAP system.

Use user credentials having access to the PI/XI channels view.

With the surveillance table, you can define custom monitoring for a specific cache name or define a global policy applied to all.

You can adjust the alarm severity according to your needs.

Surveillance table

Parameter	Description
Active	Use this field to activate or deactivate a line of configuration.
Consumer cache	A filter on the cache name.
Severity	he alarm severity to use when a cache is not in the right state.
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	Consumer cache	Status	Max. messages	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm
true	*	MAJOR	true	true	false	false

Effect : Sends a MAJOR alarm if any consumer cache is in ERROR state.

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
PIXI_CONSUMMER_CACHE_STATUS	Consummer cache status	CACHE	Sends TRUE if the cache has an OK status, FALSE instead.