Operands

NAme imonid
Specifies the name of the idle monitor.
ACTION actnid
Specifies the name of the action to process when a resource is not triggered. This action must have been previously defined using the DEFACTN command or the built-in action NULL.
An action with the name "NULL" is included in Operations Manager. The NULL action is equivalent to specifying DEFACTN NAME NULL and indicates that no action is to be performed. This is useful for rules and monitors that require no action initially, but may require action due to a LIMIT being reached or an idle monitor (via DEFIMON) being triggered.
OCCUR count,interval
Specifies that the processing of the monitored resource should happen count times, within interval minutes. The values for count and interval must be from 1 to 999999.
RULE ruleid
Specifies to monitor the rule ruleid.
MACHINE mmonid
Specifies to monitor the machine monitor mmonid.
SCHEDULE schdid
Specifies to monitor the schedule schdid.
SPOOL smonid
Specifies to monitor the spool monitor smonid.
EVENT emonid
Specifies to monitor the event monitor emonid.
PAGE pmonid
Specifies to monitor the page space monitor pmonid.
IDLE imonid
Specifies to monitor the idle monitor imonid.
PARM parm
Specifies the parameter or list of parameters that are passed to the ACTION when it is scheduled to run. The value(s) may be entered as parm, but must be enclosed in quotation marks ('parm') if there is more than one blank-delimited value. The DEFACTN command can use the parameter through the &p substitution variable. The parameter is also available to any chained action routine that is defined in the NEXTACTN operand on the DEFACTN command.
DAYS MTWTFSSH
Specifies the days of the week (Monday-Sunday) and if the monitor is active on holidays. For the monitor to be active on a day of the week and holiday, the corresponding location must contain the asterisk (*) symbol. The default is all days and holidays (********). See DEFDATE to define holidays.
HOURS h,h,...,h
Specifies the hours of the day the monitor is checked. Any value from 0 to 23 can be used in a comma-separated list. Up to 24 values can be present. The default is all hours.
ENV procenv [,procsys]
Specifies that the processing environment and the processing system of the ACTION is to be overridden with the supplied values for procenv and procsys. See DEFACTN for additional information on overriding the processing environment and processing system.
LIMIT count,interval[,lmactn]
Specifies that the processing of the monitor's ACTION is limited to count times within interval period of time. Optionally, this command processes the alternate action specified by lmtactn if the limit condition is encountered.
  • The value for count must be from 0 to 999999.
  • When specified as a single positive integer, the value for interval must be from 0 to 999999 seconds. You can also use the format of ddd-hh:mm:ss, which specifies the interval value in days (ddd), hours (hh), minutes (mm), and seconds (ss). The maximum value for this input format is 999-23:59:59.

    For example, a LIMIT of 4 times in 10 seconds could be specified as:

    LIMIT '4,10'   OR   LIMIT '4,000-00:00:10'
  • A value of 0 for count and interval indicates that no processing limit should be applied. If count or interval are 0, both count and interval must be 0, and the lmtactn value omitted. If count and interval are non-zero, the alternate action lmtactn may be specified. The action lmtactn is only processed once if the limit condition is encountered within an interval.
Note: If the LIMIT operand is omitted, the default count and interval are obtained from the DEFOPTN command, EMONLIM operand.
SYSGRP groupid
Specifies that this monitor is only applicable for systems where the local system name is in the group named groupid.
EXSYSGRP groupid
Specifies that this monitor is only applicable for systems where the local system name is not in the group named groupid.