Owner's Manual

Monitoring and Alerting 101
Enabling Monitor Policies
1 In the Monitoring and Alerting portal page, on the left hand pane, select
Monitor  Policies  Monitor Policies  Dell Policies and click on the
policy you want to change.
• Select
Device Agent Health - Dell Remote Access Controller In-
Band
to monitor agent health of DRAC installed servers.
• Select
Device Agent Health - OpenManage Storage Management to
monitor agent health of OpenManage Storage Management devices.
• Select
Performance Monitoring for Linux to enable performance
monitoring for Linux systems.
• Select
Performance Monitoring for Windows to enable performance
monitoring for Windows systems.
• Select
Device Primary Health to monitor health of a device.
• Select
Power Monitoring to enable monitoring power consumption.
2 Click on the On/Off drop-down and select On .
Outgoing Bytes/Sec Bytes/Sec 1250000 1875000 any
Outgoing
Packets/Sec
Packets/Sec 1250 1875 any
Physical Disk
Average Access Time Sec 1 2 any
Physical Disk IO/Sec /Sec 5 10 any
System
Context
Switches/Sec
/Sec 100000 200000 any
NOTE: Context switches may vary from server to server. Use your judgment to set these
values accordingly.
Processor Queue
Length
48 any
Table 9-5. Threshold Values for Performance Monitoring (continued)
Metric (Total Count
(simple+compound))
Unit Warning
Threshold
Critical
Threshold
Range
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