Exception monitoring

The exception monitoring features can be categorized as simple thresholds, dynamic thresholds, exception reports, and action triggers:

• Simple thresholds

  You can customize any view to include a threshold value for an element displayed in the view. When a threshold is met, the color of the displayed data changes.

• Dynamic thresholds

  You can define dynamic thresholds for use anywhere in MainView that you can set a condition, such as when customizing an element in a view or defining an alarm.

• Exception reports

  The MainView Alarm Management component creates alarm reports based on performance goals that are continuously monitored. When a performance goal is not within acceptable parameters, an alarm report (also called an exception report) is created. You can set alarms for any (or all) severity levels, from informational to critical. Additionally, you can have the alarm reports provided to you in multiple ways.

• Action triggers

  Based on an alarm report, MainView Alarm Management can issue an alert to trigger an automated action. The action might create MVS console messages, create an alarm report for MainView AutoOPERATOR to process, call MainView AutoOPERATOR, or call the BMC Control-O product.

Although some products can create their own alerts, the MainView Alarm Management alert features are available to all MainView products. In contrast, all alarms are created through MainView Alarm Management. Additionally, you can use MainView Alarm Management views to monitor alarm reports and all alerts (regardless of their origin).

For more information about exception monitoring, see Using MainView Alarm Management .