How to use the metric tables

• Focus on the metrics that best indicate the health of your critical business services
• Review and customize the exception thresholds according to your site’s needs
• Create Alarm Management alarm definitions to notify you when problems occur and to trigger automation to solve those problems

Each table contains

• Metrics and the problems that they might indicate
• The names of the view and field that display the metric
• The internal element name of the field
• An optional view filter to limit the data in the view
• A recommended element threshold to specify in the alarm definition (you might need to adjust the threshold for site-specific processing)

For an example of using the information in the tables to set an alarm, see Manage-application-exceptions.

To help you focus on the most important metrics, each table is sorted by the following classes and then alphabetically by metrics within each class:

• Class A - Availability metrics
• Class B - Performance metrics
• Class C - Decision support metrics

Not all of the tables contain all of these classes. For more information about these classes, see Important-BMC-AMI-Ops-metrics.