| Parameter | Description |
| Active | If checked, the rule is enabled and will be processed |
| Host | Can be used to restrict the monitoring to a given host (multi instance case). A star (‘*’) will match any host |
| Connection status | Connection status |
| User | If different than star (‘*’), only the connections of the given user will be taken into account |
| Max Connection | The threshold of the connection alarm. If set to 0, the size won’t be monitored |
| Aggregate | Defines how the connections are aggregated before comparing them to the threshold (see aggregate mode) |
| Severity | Defines the level of severity of the alarm that will be generated if one of the thresholds is reached |
| Auto clear | If set, the generated alarms will be automatically cleared from the console if the alarm condition is not fulfilled anymore |
| Alarm tag | You can define some text to use as a prefix of the alarm message generated by the current rule |
| Alarm | Defines if an alarm has to be generated for the given rule |
| Metric | Defines if a metric has to be generated for the given rule |