Examining alarms in the BMC AMI Ops UI
BMC AMI Ops User Interface collects alarm information from the BMC AMI Ops products.
For each alarm, you can see the following information:
Column | Description |
|---|---|
Current Severity | Current severity of the alarm |
Severity History | Alarm severity over previous evaluation cycles The history is presented from left to right, with the current severity on the right-most side of the chart. The evaluation cycle is set in the product and is typically 60 seconds. Alarm severity is represented by colored bar indicators:
A gray bar means the alarm was not triggered in that evaluation cycle. |
Severity Duration | Amount of time the alarm has been at the current severity |
Alarm Name | Alarm name and hyperlink to open alarm details |
Text | Text of the alarm |
Severity Start Time | Time of day the alarm started at the current severity |
Target | Target host name |
Technology | Technology that triggered the alarm |
Message ID | ID of the exception message contained in the alarm message |
Context | Context of the product |
Link | Hyperlink name of a view with details about the alarm Right-click the hyperlink to see the view name and the filter, sort, or period that are applied to the view. Click the hyperlink to go directly to the view. The item that triggered the alarm is highlighted. |
Alarms are refreshed every minute.
This topic presents the following information and tasks about examining alarms in the BMC AMI Ops User Interface:
Before you begin
Log in to the BMC AMI Ops User Interface client.
To sort alarms
By default, alarms are sorted by severity—most severe at the top—and then by start time—most recent at the top.
- Click the sort indicator in the column header to sort the column in ascending order (from lowest values to highest values).
- Click the column header again to reverse the sort.
- Click the column header a third time to cancel the sort.
You can sort up to four columns. The sort order of the column is displayed as a number by the sort buttons.
If you click to sort a fifth column, the first column sort is canceled, and the order shifts.
To filter alarms
- From the BMC AMI Ops User Interface, click Alarms on navigation bar at the top of the window.
- In the box under the column heading, filter numeric values or by character matching:
- For numeric data, enter the operator and value you want to show. The operator must be to the left of the filter value.
Operator
Description
=
Equals
>=
Greater than or equal to
<=
Less than or equal to
>
Greater than
<
Less than
- For character data, enter a string or partial string. The filter is not case sensitive.
Filtered results show any match to the string, whether at the beginning, middle, or end of the value.
- For numeric data, enter the operator and value you want to show. The operator must be to the left of the filter value.
To examine the details of an alarm
- From the BMC AMI Ops User Interface , click Alarms on the navigation bar at the top of the window.
To see full details for a single alarm, click the hyperlink in the Alarm Name column.
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Tip
Use the breadcrumbs at the top of the window to return to the Alarms window from an alarm details view:
- To see the view that is related to an alarm, from the Link column, do one of the following actions:
Click a hyperlink to launch the view. The item that triggered the alarm is highlighted:
- Right-click the hyperlink to see the name of the view and the query details for the view. Click the view name to open the view:
