From the IBM Spectrum Control hints and tips virtual mailbox: Is there a way to simplify the process of scheduling probes?

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Yes!

Recently the automated probe option was added to IBM Spectrum Control to enable the creation of a probe and collect status and asset information more efficiently about your storage resources for monitoring.

This scheduling option puts you in more control of your resource monitoring by simplifying the process of managing your probes and helps to avoid excessive load on the IBM Spectrum Control server.

To minimize the number of concurrent probe jobs, you can define the time window for scheduled automated probes to start. If you want to run a probe at a specific time, you can always schedule a manual probe job.

IMPORTANT: When you upgrade to IBM® Spectrum Control™ V5.2.11 probe schedules that you defined in previous releases are migrated as manually scheduled probes. You can optionally modify these probes to schedule them as automated probes.

To create probes, see Creating probes.

You can also configure alert notifications if a probe fails to run.

You can define alerts for a resource if you want to be notified when the following conditions occur:

• The status of its probe is error or warning. An error status occurs when a probe did not complete and no data was collected about a resource. A warning status occurs when a probe completes, but might not have collected a complete set of data.
• A specified amount of time has passed since a probe collected data about a resource. You can use this type of alert to be notified when up-to-date configuration and status data is not being collected about a resource and its existing data might be stale.

To define an alert for a probe job, see Configuring alerts for probes.

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