Filling out the Use These Conditions dialog

Use the Use These Conditions dialog to specify the conditions which must be satisfied in order to report an alarm with a specific severity. 

Use These Conditions dialog

To fill out the Use These Conditions dialog

1. If you want to add additional elements to the conditions of the alarm definition, type Select on the COMMAND line, and press Enter to open the Select Elements for Conditions dialog.
   Select Elements for Conditions dialog

                          Select Elements For Conditions                         
    COMMAND ===>                                              SCROLL ===> PAGE
                                                                               
       Description              Cond Elementname:sumtype      Column Visible     
       ------------------------ IWmMC ------------------------ ------ -------     
       Record ID                ----- YDF0RCID                 A      yes         
       SET?                     ----- YDF0SET                  B      yes         
       SUM                      ----- YDF0SUM0                 C      yes         
       Value One                IWmMC YDF0VAL1                 D      yes         
       Value Two                ----- YDF0VAL2                 E      yes         
       Value Three              IWmMC YDF0VAL3                 F      yes         
       Value Four               IWmMC YDF0VAL4                 G      yes         
                                                                                 
    End to return to Use These Conditions                                        
    HELP to goto help

   1. Select any additional elements you want to include in your alarm definition by entering an S to the left of the element description.

      Tip

      For a description of the values on the Select Elements for Conditions dialog, enter HELP on the COMMAND line and press Enter, or press F1.

   2. After you select any elements you want to add, press End to return to the Use These Conditions dialog.

2. Specify the values for the Use These Conditions dialog.The following table describes the values you specify for the Use These Conditions dialog:

   Value	Description
   Persistence	Use the persistence specification to define alarm definitions that require a condition 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. The maximum sample size is 32. The n is specified for each severity, Info, Warn, Minor, Major and Critical. Conditions for severities are evaluated from highest to lowest. Evaluation stops when a condition is true. All the lower level severities are assumed to be true. For example, if the persistence condition for Warn is 3 of 5, and on successive evaluations, the highest severity conditions for a record are Warn, Info, Major and Critical, Alarm Management generates the alarm report with a severity of Warn. If you want an alarm report generated whenever a condition is true, specify a sample size of 1 and 1 for the severity.
   Conditions/Thresholds	Use the Conditions/Thresholds section to specify the conditions that must be true for each severity of an alarm definition. All or any This specification only has meaning if you have used the SELECT command to add additional elements to the Element Severity section. If the alarm definition is based on one element, then ALL or ANY have the same meaning. ALL means that the condition for a severity is true if the corresponding severity conditions are true for ALL the elements. ANY means that the condition for a severity is true if any one of the corresponding conditions is true. 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. Dynamic thresholds Indicate whether the alarm definition should make use of dynamic thresholds, if any are defined for the specified elements. YES (the default) means any dynamic thresholds that are defined for an element take precedence. Thresholds that are specified in the alarm definition take effect only when no dynamic threshold is active. 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, see Working-with-dynamic-thresholds-on-the-mainframe. Element severity conditions The alarm definition may 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: Info Warn Minor Major Critical 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.

   Tip

   If you want to remove an element from the Conditions/Thresholds section, enter a D to the left of the element and press Enter, and the dialog refreshes with the element removed.

3. After you define the elements and conditions for your alarm definition, enter Next on the COMMAND line, and press Enter to continue to the next step in the MAKEALARM wizard (Filling-out-the-Report-Alarms-dialog).