Enable Or Disable Alarms; Filter Records Based On Metrics And Alarm Status - HPE XP7 User Manual

• Generates an alarm when the current performance value of a component crosses the configured
threshold value for a specified number of times.
• Dispatches a notification to the intended recipient as per the notification settings configured for the
alarm.

Enable or disable alarms

By default, PA monitors only those components for which alarms are enabled and sends appropriate
notifications to intended recipients when required. Though threshold and dispatch settings are configured
on components, they are not monitored until you enable alarms on those components. You must manually
activate or enable an alarm on a component for PA to start monitoring the selected component and send
notifications.
1. Click the HPE XP7 Performance Advisor main menu, and click Alerts.
2. In the Alarms table in the Configure Alarms pane, select the component records for which you want
to specify the threshold level.
You can also filter component records in the Alarms table.
• To enable alarms on components, select the Enable check box. By default, the current state for a
newly added component record appears as Disabled in the Alarms table.
Once the alarm record is enabled, it implies that PA will not monitor the selected component.
• To disable alarms on components, select the Disabled check box.
Once the alarm record is disabled, it implies that PA will not monitor the selected component.
If you want to configure notification and monitoring settings across component records, use the Shift for
sequential selection of records and Ctrl for random selection of records.

Filter records based on metrics and alarm status

These filters are enabled only when you add alarm records for a component in the Alarms table. By
default, all the alarm records configured on the selected XP and XP7 disk arrays, and component are
displayed in the Alarms table.
See the Alerts screen details for description of the filter options in the Alerts screen.
Example 1 Filtering records
If you have filtered records in the Alarms table for RAID Groups, 1–3 and 1–5. Their associated metrics
are RAID Group Total IO –Frontend, RAID Group Total MB –Frontend, and RAID Group Sequential Read
Tracks –Backend. The Metrics list displays RAID Group Total IO –Frontend, RAID Group Total MB –
Frontend, and RAID Group Sequential Read Tracks – Backend metrics. The following are the
combination of records that are displayed in the Alarms table:
• RAID Group 1–3 and RAID Group Total IO – Frontend metric
• RAID Group 1–3 and RAID Group Total MB – Frontend metric
• RAID Group 1–3 and RAID Group Sequential Read Tracks – Backend metric
• RAID Group 1–5 and RAID Group Total IO – Frontend metric
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