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Parameters

Name

Type

Description

Alert Conditions

Matching Lines

Text

Parameter displays the lines that match the specified criteria extracted from the monitored file. If more than 1 kilobyte of text is to be shown, only the last kilobyte of matching lines is displayed in the parameter.

Alarm or Warning

Alarm

No default thresholds or alerts set

Matching Line Rate (HB)

Numeric

Parameter displays the number of lines per minute that match the specified criteria.

Unit: Lines/min (Lines per minute)

Activate this parameter if a higher line rate is desirable.

Alarm or Warning

Alarm

No default thresholds or alerts set

Matching Line Rate (LB)

Numeric

Parameter displays the number of lines per minute that match the specified criteria.

Unit: Lines/min (Lines per minute)

Activate this parameter if a lower line rate is desirable.

Alarm or Warning

Alarm

No default thresholds or alerts set

Matching Line Count (HB)

Numeric

Parameter displays the number of lines that match the specified criteria since the last acknowledgement or reset.

This parameter keeps increasing for each line that matches the specified criteria. It is automatically reset to zero when the specified acknowledgement string is found, or when the specified timeout is reached.

Unit: General number

Activate the thresholds on this parameter if a higher count is desirable.

Alarm or Warning

Alarm

No default thresholds or alerts set

Matching Line Count (LB)

Numeric

Parameter displays the number of lines that match the specified criteria since the last acknowledgement or reset.

This parameter keeps increasing for each line that matches the specified criteria. It is automatically reset to zero when the specified acknowledgement string is found, or when the specified timeout is reached.

Unit: General number

Activate the thresholds on this parameter if a lower count is desirable.

Alarm or Warning

Alarm

No default thresholds or alerts set

Thresholds can be set and modified on all parameters.

Note (HB) = "Higher is Better" and (LB) = "Lower is Better". HB and LB parameters will always display the same value since, basically, both represent the same value. The purpose of having two parameters for the same value is to be able to set different alert thresholds depending on the nature of the monitored object.
 
For instance, an alert can be set to be triggered on the HB parameter when the value dips too low (it breaches the lower threshold of the range) and an alert can be set on the LB parameter to go off when the value rises too high. The setting of alerts is flexible and can be done on either of the two parameters, on both, or on neither; it depends entirely on nature of the monitored object and the user's specific needs.