how to change all CDM probe reboot alarms to critical severity using a superpackage

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

We need to change all CDM alarms for server reboot to critical severity using a superpackage (we are not using MCS).  What is the best way to accomplish this?  

Environment

Release : 20.3

Component : UIM - CDM WITH IOSTAT

Resolution

If you are unfamiliar with superpackage creation please see-

The high-level steps are as follows:

1. for each Operating System that you have in your environment, follow this process:
1a. drag-and-drop the cdm probe from a robot down to the Archive node in Infrastructure Manager
1b. click 'Rename' and name the package something like cdm_boot_severity
1c. edit this package and edit the cdm.cfx file and replace the entire contents with the below:

<messages> overwrite
   <BootAlarm> overwrite
      level = critical
   </BootAlarm>
   </messages>
<computer> overwrite
   boot_alarm = yes
</computer>

 

This will ensure reboot alarms are enabled and that the severity is critical (normally informational.)

If you don't want to change whether reboot alarms are turned on, omit the <computer> section.