Building the foundation
To build the foundation necessary for defining the work IBM® Sterling Control Center Monitor does, you need to plan for and define items such as servers, server groups, data visibility groups, roles/users, calendars/schedules, and email lists. After you define these items, they are available for selection when you are defining rules and or SLCs.
All of the building blocks work together to tell IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor what to do. For example, the following figure shows the function of the building blocks for IBM Sterling Control Center Monitor rules:
- Servers and/or Server Groups - contains which servers or groups of servers the rule applies to.
- Event: describes what happens to trigger the rule.
- Calendar - contains the included or excluded days or dates of the rule and whether they recur.
- Rule schedule - describes the start time, end time, and end day
of the rule.
The calendar and rule schedule are paired together to determine the time constraints for the rule. In other words, the calendar and rule schedule describe when the rule applies or does not apply.
- Users - contains the user information for the role or roles.
- Role or role - describes who can edit the rule.
- Email list - contains the list of addresses for email notifications.
- Action - describes what happens when the rule is triggered. Sample
actions include a GUI alert displayed in the console, a sent email,
a generated SNMP trap, or an executed OS or server command.
The action is paired with the email list to describe what happens when the rule is triggered.
- Data visibility group (DVG) - describes different actions taken for the same event by different users and or limits who can monitor events for the rule.