34.18 Managing Metrics and Incident Notifications

You can perform the following tasks to manage monitoring and incident notification:

34.18.1 Viewing Metric Collection Errors

Metric collection errors are usually caused by installation or configuration issues. You can view errors for a server.

  1. Click Systems Infrastructure Server from the All Targets page.
  2. Click the target name to open the home page.
  3. Click Systems Infrastructure Server in the upper left corner of the page. Click Monitoring, then click Metric Collection Errors.

34.18.2 Editing Metric and Collection Settings

The Metrics tab contains displays all of the monitored attributes. The default view is metrics with thresholds. For these types of monitored attributes, you can modify the comparison operator, the threshold limits, the corrective action, and the collection schedule.

  1. Click Systems Infrastructure Server from the All Targets page.
  2. Click the target name to open the home page.
  3. Click Systems Infrastructure Server in the upper left corner of the page. Click Monitoring, then click Metric and Collection Settings.
  4. Modify threshold limits or collection schedule. When a threshold field is empty, the alert is disabled for that metric.
  5. Click the Edit icon for advanced settings.

    Click the Other Collected Items tab to view non-threshold monitored attributes. You can modify the collection period for these attributes, or disable monitoring.

  6. Click OK to save your changes.

34.18.3 Editing a Monitoring Configuration

  1. Click Systems Infrastructure Server from the All Targets page.
  2. Click the target name to open the home page.
  3. Click Systems Infrastructure Server in the upper left corner of the page. Click Target Setup.
  4. Click Monitoring Configuration.

34.18.4 Suspending Monitoring Notifications

Brownouts enable you to temporarily suppress notifications on a target. The Agent continues to monitor the target under brownout. You can view the actual target status along with an indication that the target is currently under brownout.

You can create a brownout for a server.

  1. Click Systems Infrastructure Server from the All Targets page.
  2. Click the target name to open the home page.
  3. Click Systems Infrastructure Server in the upper left corner of the page. Click Control.
  4. Click Create Brownout.
  5. Enter a name for the brownout event.
  6. Select a reason from the menu and add comments, as needed.
  7. Click the options to define how jobs will run and the maintenance window.
  8. Click Submit.

34.18.5 Suspending Monitoring for Maintenance

Blackouts enable you to suspend monitoring on one or more targets in order to perform maintenance operations. To place a target under blackout, you must have at least the Blackout Target privilege on the target. If you select a host, then by default all the targets on that host are included in the blackout. Similarly, if you select a target that has members, then by default all the members are included in the blackout.

  1. Click Systems Infrastructure Server from the All Targets page.
  2. Click the target name to open the home page.
  3. Click Systems Infrastructure Server in the upper left corner of the page. Click Control.
  4. Click Create Blackout.
  5. Select a reason from the menu.
  6. Add comments, as needed.
  7. Click Submit.

34.18.6 Ending a Monitoring Brownout or Blackout

You can end a blackout or brownout for a server.

  1. Click Systems Infrastructure Server from the All Targets page.
  2. Click the target name to open the home page.
  3. Click Systems Infrastructure Server in the upper left corner of the page. Click Control.
  4. Click End Blackout or End Brownout.