Filling out the Use These Conditions dialog box
- Accept the default values or specify alternate values.
The fields in the dialog box are described in the following table. - Click Next to continue to the next step in the MAKEALARM wizard (Filling-out-the-Report-Alarms-dialog-box).
Field descriptions for the Use These Conditions dialog box
Field | Default value | Information to specify |
|---|---|---|
Persistence | Define alarm definitions that require one or more conditions to be true for more than one sample Persistence requires that an alarm condition be true for n of m samples. The Samples value specifies m in the expression n of m. | |
Samples=m | 1 | Number of time samples The maximum sample size is 32. |
Info=n Warn=n Minor=n Major=n Critical=n | 1 | Value for each severity level The value of n must be greater than 0 and less than or equal to the m (Samples) value. Conditions for severities are evaluated from highest to lowest. The evaluation stops when a condition is true. All the lower level severities are assumed to be true. If Warn is true, Info is true, and if Critical is true, Major, Minor, Warn, and Info are considered true. If you want an alarm to be reported whenever a condition is true, you would specify sample size 1 and 1 for each severity persistence value. |
Conditions/Thresholds | Specify the conditions that must be true for each severity of an alarm definition | |
Report if corresponding conditions are true for [ALL|ANY] elements | ALL | Specify the conditions that must be true for each severity of an alarm definition
If the alarm definition is based on one element, then ALL or ANY have the same meaning. If a condition for a severity is specified for one element and not another element. The empty specification is ignored regardless of the specification of ALL or ANY. |
Element Severity Conditions | No default | The alarm definition can be based on one or more elements from the view. This section repeats for each element. For each element, you can specify a different operator and value for each of the following levels of severity:
The initial conditions for each severity are determined from the view. The threshold conditions are taken from the view in order. The first threshold condition for the field becomes the critical condition, the second major and so on, down to Info. In the example above the is elementName is CPUSUs/Sec(MVDCPRT). You can remove the condition for the element by typing D in the field next to the element name. |
Use Dynamic Threshold | YES | Indicate whether the alarm definition should make use of dynamic thresholds, if any are defined for the specified elements.
To use only dynamic thresholds for an alarm, accept the default of YES and do not specify any conditions for any of the element’s severity levels. For information about dynamic thresholds, seeWorking with dynamic thresholds on the mainframe. |