Overview of Alarm Manager

BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IPis a tool that, with other BMC AMI Ops products, notifies you when exception conditions occur. You can display a single view that shows exceptions for all BMC AMI Ops performance monitors within your MVS enterprise.

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Alarm Managementcan monitor multiple systems simultaneously. Any data element on any BMC AMI Ops product can be used to generate alarms that produce the following results:

  • Create MVS console or subsystem messages
  • Display messages in a Alarm Management view that let you hyperlink to the BMC AMI Ops product that produced the exception
  • Trigger an automated alert or action from BMC AMI Ops Automation for quick problem resolution

Alarm Managementwill generate alarms when thresholds from specific BMC AMI Ops product views are exceeded. Alarms can be based on summarized data from multiple systems and subsystems that use the BMC AMI Ops single system image (SSI) capabilities.

Using Alarm Management, you can create and modify alarm definitions that display meaningful messages for your site’s requirements. Alarms can be set for any severity level, from informational to critical.

Threshold conditions are defined as one of the following priority levels:

  • Information
  • Warning
  • Minor
  • Major
  • Critical

Sample alarms and threshold conditions are provided in many BMC AMI Ops Monitor for IP views. You can use color or highlighting to add visual indicators to display data that instantly shows when resources are reaching a critical state. For more information about thresholds and Alarm Management, see Using Alarm Management.

 

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