Configuring RSP probe for monitoring several templates per host with both MB and percent

Products

• DX Unified Infrastructure Management (Nimsoft / UIM)

Issue/Introduction

 

Introduction: 

This document shows how to configure the RSP probe for monitoring several templates per host with a combination of MB and percent.

Background:  

If there are several hosts that have very large hard drives and hosts that have smaller hard drives, it is much more beneficial to monitor the large drives with MB; otherwise, RSP will alarm these hosts prematurely.  The smaller drives can be configured to alarm with percent without any issues.

Environment:  

UIM 7.x and later

RSP probe version 2.9 and later

Instructions: 

Create a Custom Disk Template and a Custom Group

Custom templates need to be created for certain drives to be configured to monitor with MB and others to alarm with percent.  To begin, click on the ‘Advanced Configuration section of the probe GUI:

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• Expand Config Format and the Templates sections to reveal sections such as CPU, Disk, Load, Memory, ect.  In this example, we will be creating a custom Disk template called ‘Test_Disk’ to monitor in percent for disk alarms and disk size.  Right click on the disk folder section under Templates and select Add template.  Add a Name to this template and make the configurations shown below.

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• Right click on the Test_disk template to Add an alarm condition.  Alarm conditions can be added for Clear, High, Low, and Not_found.

       

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• Right click on the groups section to add a new group.  We will call this Test_group.

        

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Create a Custom Disk C:/ for Monitoring with Percentage

• We now need to a custom drive for monitoring with percent.  Right click on Test_group and add an instance C:\.

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• Add an alarm to this group by right clicking C:\ and add alarm.

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Create Several Custom Disks D:/ and E:/ for Monitoring with MB

• We now need to a custom drive for monitoring with MB.  Right click on Test_group and add an instance D:\.

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• Add an alarm for the D:\ drive.

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• Follow the same procedure for creating a custom disk drive E:\ and adding an alarm.

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Adding hosts to the Test_group template

• Click on the Add Host Profile(s) button to add hosts to the Test_group template.  You can add many hosts and/or ip addresses to a Template group quickly using this methodology.  

***Note:  If you have machines that you do not want to monitor with both MB and Percent, then you can configure the Test_disk template to use only Percent.

        

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• As you can see in the below images, the C:/ drive has taken the Test_Group alarm template of a high threshold 98% alarm.  Since we did not configure the low threshold, it does not show the value.

         

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• You can also see in the below image that the D:/ drive has taken the Test_Group alarm template of a high threshold 9000 MB alarm.  Since we did not configure the low threshold, it does not show the value.

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• Lastly, select the General Setup for performing a Force Group Override check box at the bottom of the Setup section, which will cause all custom groups to be overridden with the custom templates, instead of the default templates being used.

        

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Configuring Linux Boxes

 

If you would like to perform this for Linux boxes, you will need to configure a separate template and include the file systems that you would like to monitor.  You can also monitor these file systems with a combination of MB and Percent when following the instructions provided in this document.

 

Additional Information:

***Note:  If you do not select the Force Group Override check box, then some of the custom groups and templates will not alarm correctly or adhere to the groups they are configured to use.

 

Environment

Release: CNMSPP99000-7.6-Unified Infrastructure Mgmt-Server Pack-- On Prem
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