products:promonitor:6.8:monitorsguide:bo:serversmetrics

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

ParameterDescription
ActiveIf checked, the rule will be active.
ServerThe server(s) concerned by the rule.
Metric to monitorThe monitored metric
ThresholdA threshold that if breached an alarm will be sent
SeverityThe severity of the alarm
Auto clearIf 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.
AlarmIf checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation.
MetricIf checked, this line of surveillance will be used for metric generation.

Examples

ActiveServerMetric to monitorThresholdSeverityAuto clearAlarm tag AlarmMetric
true*Auditing.numberOfEventsInTheQueue100CRITICALtrue truetrue

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

metricIdmetricUnitmetricTargetmetricDescription
[serverName]_[metricName] Metric nameMetric populated by BO configured to be monitored in Pro.Monitor
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