Monitoring a resource

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

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

To monitor a resource in OpenEdge Management:

  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 to assess the resource's performance. The monitoring plan consists of the following parts:
    • One or more schedules that identify the time frame you want to monitor.
    • One or more rules that identify the performance standards you set for the resource. If a standard established by a rule is not met, the rule is considered broken and OpenEdge Management generates an alert to notify you of the performance issue.
    • An action that occurs when OpenEdge Management generates an alert about a performance issue. Table 1–2 shows a list of the available actions.
    • Table 1–2: OpenEdge Management actions 
      In response to this action . . .
      OpenEdge Management . . .
      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 an action that consists of one or more other actions.
      Job action
      Executes a job in response to an alert.


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