Deactivating parameters

To reduce the impact on your system resources and enhance performance, you can deactivate parameters that are not commonly needed, but keep the following in mind:

• The icon for the consumer parameter disappears and no data is collected or stored.
• The collector parameter that sets the deactivated consumer parameter notates the System Output Window with an error each time that collector attempts to send information to the deactivated consumer parameter.
• Some collector parameters might also set off recovery actions if they cannot find a deactivated consumer parameters.

Instead of disabling consumer parameters, consider one of the following options:

• Disable only the alarms for a consumer parameter.
   The collector parameter continues to send data to the consumer parameter, and the consumer parameter continues to provide a view and history for that data. No alarms or warnings are displayed and no recovery actions are triggered for that consumer parameter.
• Deactivate a collector parameter.
   The collector parameter stops collecting data for the consumer parameters it sets.
• Deactivate monitoring of an application class.
   No parameters are displayed for an application class that is not set up for monitoring.

To activate or deactivate a parameter

1. In PATROL Configuration Manager, right-click the agent for whose parameters you want to schedule polling times.
2. Select Event Management > Parameter Settings.
3. On the Thresholds tab, click Add Objects.
4. In the Object Selection dialog box, select the Get Objects From Agent option.
5. From the Hosts field, select the default host (/).
    The Application Classes field is populated with the application classes.
6. In the Application Classes field, select the application class for which you want to modify the parameters.
7. In the Instances field, select the Converged Infrastructure Monitoring instance for which you want to modify the parameters.
    The Parameters field is populated with the parameters.
8. Select the parameter, and click Add.
9. Click Close.
10. In the Event Management Parameter Settings dialog box, select the parameter from the Selected Objects List.
11. Select or clear the Active option as required.
12. Click Apply.