Adding rules to the monitoring plan

Rule definitions identify the specific attributes of a resource that you want to monitor, the severity of an alert OpenEdge Management generates in response to performance, and the action that occurs when an alert is generated. Rule definitions for system, network, and file resource types are composed of the following elements:

Figure 4–3 shows a sample rule definition for a disk resource type.

Figure 4–3: Sample rule definition

Using default rules

OpenEdge Management provides default rule values for system, network, and file resources. A rule indicates a performance standard that you expect and one about which you want notification when broken. Default values provided by OpenEdge Management suggest performance settings you can use when creating your resources.

Default rules help you to create your resources and associated values as quickly as possible. You can change default rule values to more specifically reflect your resource monitoring objectives at any time.

For more detailed information about the default rules and their default values, see the relevant sections in Chapter 5, "Monitoring System Resources," Chapter 6, "Monitoring Network Resources,"and Chapter 7, "Monitoring File Resources."

Using resource-specific rules

Each resource type has specific rules you can set to ensure that the resource monitoring data provides you with meaningful details about the resource. For example, you can set a CPU resource monitor to monitor CPU-related performance characteristics, and you can set a disk resource monitor to monitor disk-related performance characteristics. Resource-specific rules reflect how trend data intervals have different meaning to the various resource types.


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