Creating threshold alarms

You can create threshold alarms to monitor the performance and response time data of your single server and generate a message when an anomaly is found.

You create a set of guardian property files based on the template files located under <InstallDir>/runtime/ia/etc/guardian. In each property file, you must specify parameters to detect anomalies, such as the alarmCondition property, which determines what the guardian utility detects. Also, you must specify the JMX properties to define which MBean ObjectNames the guardian utility queries for the server for a simple filter expression. Run the pmiManager guardian command on the directory that contains the guardian files that you want to monitor. The utility checks the remote server health and detect predicted anomalies before they cause outages. If the predicted value crosses the threshold that is specified for the anomaly detection, then an alarm is logged. By default, the Java™ logging properties for the guardian utility are in the ia/etc/pmiManager_logging.properties file.