Cannot add performance monitor counters with alarm ranges less than 1

The PATROL Wizard for Performance Monitor and WMI does not allow decimal alarm ranges that are less than one, yet the Performance Monitor counters values are normally in this range.

Customizing performance monitor counters

Since PATROL alarm ranges must be integer values, you can't create useful alarm ranges if the Microsoft performance monitor counter values are normally less than 1. However, by following this procedure, you can multiply the reported value by a specified amount. This allows you to create meaningful alarm ranges. You can also use this approach if the value reported by the counter is too large. In that case, you would multiply the reported value by a a number less than 1.

To customize performance counters

1. Use the PATROL Wizard for Performance Monitor and WMI to create parameters for a Performance Monitor counter, as described in Creating the performance monitor parameters.
2. Using PATROL Configuration Manager or the pconfig utility, display the following configuration variable:
   /Perfmon/NT_PERFMON_WIZARD/object /Counters
   where object is the Microsoft Performance Monitor object.

3. Edit the configuration variable value by adding, after the counter name, * multiplier, where multiplier is the numerical value by which you want to multiply the reported value.
   For example, to multiple the reported value of the counter Active Threads by 100, add *100 to the variable, as shown: Active Threads*100.

   If you are monitoring multiple counters for the object, you can also multiple the other counters by a multiplier. For example:
   counter1 *100, counter2, counter3*0.1

   Warning

   When entering a multiplier that is less than 1, you must include a leading zero. For example, you must enter 0.1, and not.1.

4. Apply the configuration change to the agent.

The value reported by PATROL for the selected counter is adjusted by the multiplier that you entered.