Archive Area Used (%)

Description

The Archive Full (%) metric returns the percentage of space used on the archive area destination. If the space used is more than the threshold value given in the threshold arguments, then a warning or critical alert is generated.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Grid Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Target Version

Evaluation and Collection Frequency

Upload Frequency

Operator

Default Warning Threshold

Default Critical Threshold

Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification

Alert Text

All Versions

Every 15 Minutes

After Every Sample

>

80

Not Defined

1

%value%%% of archive area %archDir% is used.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "Archive Area Destination" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "Archive Area Destination" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "Archive Area Destination" object, use the Edit Thresholds page. See Editing Thresholds for information on accessing the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

If no quota is set for archive area, the percentage is calculated using the UNIX df –k command.

If quota is set:

archive area used (%) = (total area used / total archive area) * 100

User Action

Verify the device specified in the initialization parameter LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST is set up properly for archiving.

There are two methods you can use to specify archive destinations. These destinations can be setup using Enterprise Manager. For each database target, you can drill-down to the database Availability tab, and access the Recovery Settings page.

If the LOG_ARCHIVE_DEST initialization parameter is set up correctly and this metric triggers, then free up more space in the destination specified by the archive destination parameters.

Related Topics

About Alerts

About the Metric Detail Page

Editing Thresholds

Understanding Line Charts