ManageEngine® Applications Manager

Viewing and Configuring Alarms Globally

The purpose of Global Alarm Configuration is that you can associate thresholds and actions to Monitors/ Monitor Groups/ Monitor Types directly rather than from their individual screens. Additionally, you can view all the thresholds and actions associated with the attributes of a Monitor Type/ Monitor Group / Monitor in a single screen.

How to Demos: Have a look at our demo on configuring Alarms in our website.

You can perform the following functions in the screen:

Create and associate a threshold for an attribute by clicking 'Associate' link. It opens the 'Configure Alarms' page, herein you can create a new threshold or apply an existing threshold for the attribute.
Edit already existing thresholds by clicking on the threshold name.
Configure Alarms for:

Monitors:

Select the Monitor Type from the list.
Select the specific Monitor for which you want to configure alarms.
Select from the list of attributes given and associate thresholds.

Monitor Groups:

Select the Monitor Group from the list.
Select Action Type: Individual or Template.

For Individual,
- Select the desired attributes listed for each Monitor and associate thresholds.
For Template,
- Select Monitor Type.
- Select from the list of attributes given and associate thresholds.
- For information about "Override existing Threshold Configuration" option, see below.

Monitor Types:

Select the Monitor Type from the list.
Select from the list of attributes given and associate thresholds.
For information about "Override existing Threshold Configuration" option, see below.

Note:

Override existing Threshold Configuration.

For Monitor Groups (Template action) and Monitor Types, while associating thresholds, an option, "Override existing Threshold Configuration" is displayed. Checking this option will override the threshold configurations of Monitors whose thresholds were configured individually(not from templates) with the threshold configurations of the current Monitor Group/ Type. If left unchecked, the existing threshold configuration of the Monitor(s) is maintained and the new threshold configurations are applied to all other Monitors of the Group/ Type.

Monitor Group templates are given priority over Monitor Type templates.

For example,

If a monitor of a given Monitor Type belongs to a Monitor Group and the thresholds are configured for the Monitor Group as well the Monitor Type of this monitor, the Monitor Group configurations will take precedence over Monitor Type configurations.

Configuring Thresholds when a Monitor belongs to two Monitor Groups.

It is not recommended to configure two different thresholds for a given attribute of a Monitor belonging to two Monitor Groups. When tried, an error message is generated for the same.

For more information, refer to the Associating Threshold and Action with Attributes section.

Note: You can also view the Global Alarm Configuration screen by clicking 'Configure Alarms' under Admin tab, Alarm / Action settings.

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