Monitoring a resource

You select the resource you want to monitor and create its monitoring plan. Provided here are the overall steps, which are covered in greater detail throughout this guide.

Once you install Fathom and set initial configuration options, you can configure Fathom to monitor certain remote resources as well as local ones.

To monitor a resource in Fathom:

  1. Create a resource monitor (for a database, file, network component, OpenEdge server component, or system component).
  2. Create a monitoring plan for the resource monitor. The monitoring plan defines all the criteria you want to use in assessing the resource's performance and consists of the following parts:
    • One or more schedules that identify what portion of time you want monitoring to encompass.
    • One or more rules that identify the performance standards you expect the resource to meet. If a standard established by a rule is not met, the rule is considered broken and Fathom generates an alert as notification of the performance issue.
    • An action that occurs when Fathom generates an alert about a performance issue. See Table 1–2 for a list of available actions.
    • Table 1–2: Fathom Management actions
      In response to this action...
      Fathom...
      Default action
      Contains the e-mail action.
      Email action
      Generates an e-mail to a recipient you identify, notifying the recipient about the alert.
      Log action
      Records details about the alert in a log file.
      SNMP trap action
      Sends notification of the alert to your SMNP management console.
      Compound action
      Executes one action that consists of one or more other actions.
      Job action
      Executes a job in response to an alert.


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