Thresholds and Alarms

Thresholds and alarms give you automatic notification of potential problems before they affect users, regardless of your physical location.

Metrics are automatically checked against thresholds, including compound conditions and cross-agent conditions. If a metric exceeds a threshold, an alarm is sent to notify you of the problem.

You can set thresholds and alarms on business workloads and application agents as well. You can base alarms on custom workloads designed to analyze performance in terms that make sense to your business.

Predefined threshold and alarm sets are available out-of-the-box, and you can customize your own. You can define alarms to:

• Beep a pager or cell phone
• Send an email
• Fire off a script to take corrective action
• Appear in TeamQuest software for investigation and reporting
• Send SNMP traps to third-party consoles

You can define thresholds and alarms for each individual system, or you can use the TeamQuest Administration Server to treat thresholds and alarms as policies and apply them to multiple servers at once. The Administration Server allows you to change a threshold or alarm definition in one place, then apply that change automatically to other systems.

Alarms can be investigated using TeamQuest IT Service Analyzer, TeamQuest Alert and TeamQuest IT Service Reporter.

 

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More Sample Screens TeamQuest IT Service Analyzer: Alarm table report TeamQuest IT Service Reporter:1-hour vitals report Console Integrations HP OpenView Network Node Manager (NNM) Event Viewer Tivoli Enterprise Console Example intervention with Micromuse Netcool

Integration with Systems Management Frameworks

You can also use thresholds and alarms to send SNMP traps to third-party consoles such as:

• Tivoli/Enterprise Console (TEC)
• HP OpenView
• SunNet Manager
• IBM/Tivoli NetView
• CA Unicenter TNG
• Micromuse Netcool
• Spectrum Aprisma

When you receive an alarm on your console, you can click to launch one of the TeamQuest products to analyze the problem in detail. This seamless integration lets you use your systems management framework to watch over your systems and specialized TeamQuest software to analyze complex performance problems.