HP StorageWorks Performance Advisor XP Software user guide (T1789-96025, October 2007)

Figure 32 Edit Schedule/Trend dialog box

If you specify a level-type alarm, an email is sent only when an alarm is triggered during the speciﬁed

times. For example, if you select Sunday, Mountain time, between 9 a.m. and 4 p.m., you are noti ﬁed

only when an alarm is triggered during this time interval.

If you specify a trend-type alarm, you can see the average of change for one week, each week represented

by one data point. Minimum d a ta of two weeks is necessary to view details of a trend-type alarm.

The followi

ng sections describe how to create, conﬁgure, schedule, enable or disable an alarm; set or

change thre

shold levels; and provide a destination for alarm notiﬁcations.

Creating an alarm

To create an alarm, complete the following steps:

1. Click Add/Remove alarm in the Alarm Conﬁguration screen.

2. In the Array drop-down menu, select an array.

3. In the Category drop-down menu, select a category such as LDEV IO.

4. In the Metric Category drop-down menu, select a metric category such as Total IO.

5. For the alarm t ype, select either Level or Trend. For m ore information about this feature, see Level

and Trend alarm types.

6. In the Item list box , highlight the LDEV or port number.

7. Click Add to add the new settings to the list box.

8. Click Exit to return to the Alarm Conﬁguration scre en.

The new alarm appears at the bottom of the list box with a N appended (for New) in the Mod

(Modiﬁed) column. At this point, you can manually ﬁll in the ﬁelds in the lower portion of the Alarm

Conﬁguration screen, or you ca n use a template to ﬁll in the ﬁelds. For inform ation about using a

template to ﬁll the ﬁelds, see Conﬁguring an alarm.

CAUTION:

Ensure that you click Commit/Refresh before leaving the Alarm Conﬁguration screen,

or you will lose the new alarm.

Enabling email notiﬁcations

To receive the alarm notiﬁcation by email, you must add the SMTP server nam es to the

serverparameters.properties ﬁle. To add the SMTP server nam es, c omplete the following steps:

1. In the PA XP Man agem ent server, navigate to the folder: \hpss\pa\properties

2. Select the serverparameters.properties ﬁle and open it using a text editor.

3. Search for the ﬁeld SMTP_Servers_And_Ports and enter one or more S MT P ser ver names. See the

comments in the serverparameters.properties ﬁle for more information.

Alarm Conﬁguration