Operands

NAME mmonid
Specifies the name of the machine monitor.
USER userid
Specifies the user ID of the virtual machine to monitor.
ACTION actnid
Specifies the name of the action to process to bring the virtual machine to a logged on status. 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.
INTERVAL n
Specifies how often, in minutes, to check the virtual machine status. The default is 1 minute.
DELAY n
Specifies how long to wait, in minutes, after the monitor is defined to check the virtual machine status. The default is 0 (check immediately).
PARM parm
Specifies the parameter or list of parameters that is 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 DEFACTN.
DAYS MTWTFSSH
Specifies the days of the week (Monday-Sunday) and if the monitor is checked 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 (********). For information on how to define holidays, see DEFDATE.
HOURS h,h,...,h
Specifies the hours of the day the monitor is checked. Any value 0 to 23 may appear in the comma-separated list. Up to 24 values may be present. The default is all hours.
ENV procenv[,procsys]
Specifies that the processing environment and system of the action is to be overridden with the values assigned to procenv and procsys. See DEFACTN for more information on overriding the processing environment and system, and valid values for procenv and procsys.
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.
DEPEND userid,sts
DEPEND userid,sts,conn,userid,sts
DEPEND userid,sts,conn,userid,sts,conn,userid,sts
Specifies up to three virtual machines and their status before the monitor is checked.
  • userid — Specifies the user ID of the virtual machine to check.
  • sts — Specifies the desired status of the virtual machine:
    • A — Active. The virtual machine is logged on (or running disconnected).
    • I — Inactive. The virtual machine is logged off.
  • conn — Specifies the logical connector:
    • | (vertical bar) — or/exclude
    • & (ampersand) — and/include
    The logical connectors are evaluated left to right and have no hierarchy. The default is no dependencies.
RETRY n
Specifies the number of times to retry the action if the monitored virtual machine is not brought to a logged on status. Each INTERVAL that does not bring the virtual machine to a logged on status is considered a retry. When the number of retries is exceeded, the monitor checking interval is advanced by the number of minutes in the RETRYIVL operand. This is useful if a virtual machine does not attain or remain in the logged on status. It can reduce the resource consumption used by a continuously failing virtual machine. The default is 0.
RETRYIVL n
Specifies the number of minutes to elapse before the monitor is checked if the retry is exceeded. If specified, it must be greater than or equal to INTERVAL. The default is the value of INTERVAL.