Configuring Alert Conditions

BPM Express for Hardware detects manufacturer-set thresholds for each element and assigns these pre-set thresholds to its symbolic conditions of exclamation marks. BPM Express for Hardware translates the regex of one exclamation mark "!" into a warning, and two exclamation marks into an alarm. By default, the alerts are triggered on the Status parameter. You can see these threshold symbols for any monitored element in the Configure tab, under Thresholds.

Nevertheless, it is possible to modify these pre-set thresholds via the Configure tab in the Portal. You must however remember that you have to disable the thresholds for the Status parameter (which will otherwise continue to consider pre-set thresholds), and instead directly assign custom threshold values on individual parameters of the class.

Starting with version 2.7.17, BPM Express for Hardware manages the display of parameters dynamically. This was rendered possible by creating separated parameter definition files for each parameter of an application class. Therefore, for application class that has more than one parameter, a combination of different parameters was created. This may result in the display of several occurrences of the same application class. For example, the Application class: Physical Disk has 3 parameters:

●Status

●Predicted Failure

●Error Count

Therefore, 7 parameter definition files were created in order to define each parameter and the possible combination of all the parameters. That is:

●Status

●Predicted Failure

●Error Count

●Status, Predicted Failure

●Status, Error Count

●Error Count, Predicted Failure

●Status, Error Count, Predicted Failure

Consequently, we strongly recommend that you wait for all the hardware components to be discovered before setting threshold values for a hardware instance to avoid having to enter thresholds for each occurrence of the application class.