This section explains the Action and Alarm Settings that can be made in Applications Manager. To access the Action / Alarm Settings page, click the Settings tab and go to the Action / Alarm Settings link. You can change the following settings:
Using this functionality, you can trigger an action continuously during each poll until an alarm changes from critical or warning to clear, or you can limit the number of action executions for the same threshold. The three types of recursive actions involved are:
Note: The pickup option for availability alerts can only be accessed from the widget interface.
Under Email settings, you have the option to:
Under Date Format for $DATE replacable tag in Alarm settings, you can set the required date format in the Email alarms. It can set to either:
By default , the complete information that you configure while adding SMS Action is sent via an SMS. Some SMS service providers restrict the length of characters sent through the SMS. This could result in truncated message delivery. If you would want to send only information on the Monitor, Attribute, and its Severity, deselect this option. For E.g., "Health of JBoss Server is critical" will be the SMS format that is received. (This is in addition to the message provided when creating the SMS action.)
The Critical, Warning, and Clear alarms are generated based on attributes that you have configured. You have control over the alarms that are being generated. Simply specify the number times after which the alarm should actually be generated. It would eradicate false alarms. You can set the number of Consecutive Polls Count that should be checked before reporting:
If you want to Applications Manager to check 3 out of 5 Consecutive Polls before reporting that a system (or any Monitor) is down or an attribute is critical, specify the value as 3 in the first and 5 in the second text box. Similarly, you can change the remaining four text boxes (warning, Clear) also. If you have set the poll as 2 out of 5 times before reporting a service is up, for the first time of polling, the service will be shown as Unknown. Only on the second poll, if the service is running, the status would be shown as 'Up'. Changes made will be reflected across all the monitors.
Apart from Action / Alarm settings, Polls before reporting an error, can be configured for threshold and availability of individual monitors. Refer Configuring Consecutive Polls.