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“Establishing T hresholds” for best practices regarding these thresholds.
9. When finished, click Create Probe. Remember, you must commit your monitoring configuration
change on the Scout Config Push page for this to take effect.
To delete a probe, navigate to its Current State page (by clicking the name of the probe from the
System Details → Probes tab), and click delete probe. Finally, confirm the deletion.
1.2.5.2. Establishing Thresholds
Many of the probes offered by Red Hat Satellite contain alert thresholds that, when crossed, indicate a
change in state for the probe. For instance, the Linux::CPU Usage probe allows you to set CRITICAL and
WARNING thresholds for the percent of CPU used. If the monitored system reports 75 percent of its
CPU used, and the WARNING threshold is set to 70 percent, the probe will go into a WARNING state.
Some probes offer a multitude of such thresholds.
In order to get the most out of your monitoring entitlement and avoid false notifications, Red Hat
recommends running your probes without notifications for a time to establish baseline performance for
each of your systems. Although the default values provided for probes may suit you, every organization
has a different environment that may require altering thresholds.
1.2.5.3. Monit oring the Satellite Server
In addition to monitoring all of your client systems, you may also use Red Hat Network to monitor your
Satellite or Proxy. T o monitor your Satellite or Proxy, find a system monitored by the server, and go to
that system's System Details → Probes tab.
Click create new probe and select the Satellite Probe Command Group. Next, complete the
remaining fields as you would for any other probe. See Section 1.2.5.1, “Managing Probes” for
instructions.
Although the Satellite or Proxy appears to be monitored by the client system, the probe is actually run
from the server on itself. Thresholds and notifications work normally.
Note
Any probes that require Red Hat Network monitoring daemon connections cannot be used
against a Red Hat Satellite or Red Hat Satellite Proxy Server on which monitoring software is
running. T his includes most probes in the Linux command group as well as the Log Agent probes
and the Remote Program probes. Use the Satellite command group probes to monitor Red Hat
Satellites and Red Hat Satellite Proxy Servers. In the case of Proxy scouts, the probes are listed
under the system for which they are reporting data.
1.2.6. Monitoring
If you click the Monitoring tab on the top navigation bar, the Monitoring category and links appear.
These pages, which require Monitoring entitlements, enable you to view the results of probes you have
set to run against Monitoring-entitled systems and manage the configuration of your monitoring
infrastructure.
Initiate the monitoring of a system through the Probes tab of the System Details page. See
Appendix A, Probes for the complete list of available probes.
1.2.6.1. Probe Status
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