Configuring Thresholds

When you are creating or editing a policy, you can add and configure monitor thresholds. The Add Instance Thresholds dialog box presents threshold configuration fields for TrueSight Operations Management monitors that are configured through Central Monitoring Administration.

For details about baselines and Key Performance Indicators (KPI), see TrueSight Operations Management or Central Monitoring Administration user documentation or refer to the Managing Baselines and Key Performance Indicators chapter. For details about the monitored attributes, refer to the specific monitor type in the Reference Guide chapter.

Before you begin

Ensure that your monitor configuration is complete before thresholds are applied. Thresholds cannot be applied to monitors that are not configured through Central Monitoring Administration. If you have not done so already, please refer to the Configuring Monitor Settings chapter.

Recommended Thresholds

Thresholds define acceptable high and/or low values for the data collected. Thresholds can be created as part of a policy that can be applied to multiple monitor types on multiple BMC PATROL Agents.

The Reference Guide chapter provides a list of monitor types with their respective attributes and the thresholds applied by default.

Do not set server thresholds for availability or Boolean oriented parameters or any other parameters that will have events generated for them by the PATROL Agents.