Limited supportBMC provides limited support for this version of the product. As a result, BMC no longer accepts comments in this space. If you encounter problems with the product version or the space, contact BMC Support.BMC recommends upgrading to the latest version of the product. To see documentation for that version, see BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure 7.1 .

Concepts and features

Alarm Management provides the following features and benefits:

  • Alarm conditions monitored using default or custom thresholds
  • Critical, major, minor, warning, or informational alarm reports based on thresholds
  • Color-coded messages that indicate alarm report severity
  • Views that display alarm reports according to severity and chronology
  • Alarm-report messages that hyperlink to the view where the exception occurred
  • Alarm definitions customized to display messages that apply to your site
  • Monitoring scheduled by time, days, and frequency for each alarm definition
  • Custom help panels for creating site-specific instructions for alarm reports
  • Alarm reports forwarded to BMC AMI Ops Automation for automatic actions
  • MVS Console command can be issued as the start alarm message is generated

While many of the BMC AMI Ops products have monitors that can be set up for reporting on exceptions, Alarm Management can be used to monitor exceptions that are not covered by product monitors.

The following sections introduce you to the major components and features of Alarm Management:

 

Tip: For faster searching, add an asterisk to the end of your partial query. Example: cert*