Servers metrics

Servers metrics

Purpose

This monitor allows to discover any meaningful metric from the server and monitor its value.
Metrics can be discovered and selected from the monitor's menu

Configuration hints

Use the “Load servers” button to get the list of servers existing in your BO system.
Then select the servers you want to monitor. To select the metric you want to monitor select a rule in the surveillance table you want to edit and hit the “Wizard” button.
You will get a list of metrics (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.
Metric to monitor	The monitored metric
Threshold	A threshold that if breached an alarm will be sent
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.
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.

Examples

Active	Server	Metric to monitor	Threshold	Severity	Auto clear	Alarm tag	Alarm	Metric
true	*	Auditing.numberOfEventsInTheQueue	100	CRITICAL	true		true	true

Effect : An alert will be sent if a server has his metric “Auditing.numberOfEventsInTheQueue” with a value greater than 100. The value of this metric will be sent

Generated metrics

metricId	metricUnit	metricTarget	metricDescription
[serverName]_[metricName]		Metric name	Metric populated by BO configured to be monitored in Redpeaks

Table of Contents

Servers metrics

Purpose

Configuration hints

Surveillance table

Examples

Generated metrics