kcalarm.1m (2012 03)

kcalarm(1M) kcalarm(1M)

for kcusage to generate tables of historical tunable usage. Turning monitoring off will dis-

able the features kcusage and kcweb that depend on the availability of historical data.

RETURN VALUE

Upon completion, kcalarm returns one of the following values:

0 Successful.

1 Command failed, see STDERR for speciﬁcs.

EXAMPLES

Add an alarm that monitors all kernel tunables, which will send notiﬁcation to admin@corp.com if any

kernel tunable resource exceeds 90% of the tunable’s current setting. Default values for event type and

polling interval will be used.

kcalarm -a -t 90 -n email:admin@corp.com: any

Add an alarm for the nproc kernel tunable with a threshold of 65%, repeat event type, polling interval of

ﬁve minutes, with an email notiﬁcation target of admin@corp.com.

kcalarm -a -t 65 -e repeat -i 5 -n email:admin@corp.com: nproc

Delete the alarm added in the above example. The kcalarm command will conﬁrm this request since the

-F wasn’t speciﬁed.

kcalarm -d -t 65 -e repeat -i 5 -n email:admin@corp.com: nproc

Force the deletion of ALL nproc alarms.

kcalarm -d -F nproc

List all of the alarms for the max_thread_proc

kernel tunable.

kcalarm max_thread_proc

Turn off kernel tunable monitoring.

kcalarm -m off

AUTHORS

kcalarm was developed by Hewlett-Packard.

FILES

/etc/opt/resmon/log/client.log

Log ﬁle for EMS clients, including kcalarm. Any errors are logged here.