Turning off monitoring for certain Attributes
Hi
I have a Sun Management Center setup.
Since then, I have been getting alarms from attributes like "% Of Time There Is A Transaction Waiting For Service Disk busy" or "Spins on mutex, High mutex contention rate, kernel overloaded"
I would like to know if I can disable specific monitoring off. Putting a blank in the threshold sometimes set the threshold to defaults. Not all monitoring have the option of disabling it by putting a value of "-1"
Disabling the whole module is not an option as I still need the other monitorings.
I had tried several methods that worked:
1) By using the "scheduler" and open a window in the past
2) Putting in a threshold that sounds stupid or impossible to exceed.
But I believe Sun Management center should have a more graceful way of disabling such attributes.
Any help will be greatly appreciated.
Thank you
Daryl
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DarylTew] at [2007-11-26 6:01:10]
# 1
> Disabling the whole module is not an option as I
> still need the other monitorings.
>
> I had tried several methods that worked:
> 1) By using the "scheduler" and open a window in the
> past
Yes, many admin put something simple like "year = 1999" in the alarm windows of things they never want to hear about.
> But I believe Sun Management center should have a
> more graceful way of disabling such attributes.
Many of the attributes you see are collected by single commands behind the scenes (i.e. it makes sense to get 1min, 5min, and 15min load averages all at the same time instead of by running 3 different commands). So it would be difficult to actually disable collecting data for one thing at a time. But I agree that a simple "never-send-alams" option would be easy.
On the other hand, most places I've been at decide they don't want to hear about a particular type of alarm for a wide range of systems, instead of just one or two... and in that case using a Managed Job to set "year = 1999" is the same level of effort as setting a "never-send-alarms" flag.
Regards,
Mike.Kirk@HalcyonInc.com
# 2
Hi Mike.Kirk
Thank you for your suggestion.
After try-an-error, and using your suggestion. I have found a better and more graceful way to disable the monitoring by using the Alarm Window.
Instead of puting the time frame. Just put "!1" in the Alarm window field without the qoutes.
This is because the Alarm window value is based on logic and by putting a !1 returns a False.
So far I have tried it and it works.
Mike, Perhaps you may want to advise if this is the correct way?
regards
Daryl
