Configure Alarms | Spotlight Enterprise Documentation

Set the thresholds and severities that determine when an alarm is raised. Disable an alarm. Set an alarm to require acknowledgment. Configure keyed alarms. Collect additional diagnostic information on an alarm.

All alarms in Spotlight, including Diagnostic Server and operational alarms, can be configured.

Tip: Before you change the alarm configurations you may like to backup the current configurations. You can do this by backing up the \Agent\Conf folder in the Spotlight Diagnostic Server installation folder.

The kinds of configuration include:

Disable an alarm
Set an alarm to require acknowledgment
Configure keyed alarms - apply different severities to individual keys in an alarm.
Change the severity level or number of severities. (Change severity information)
Collect additional diagnostic information
Do not alarm for certain values

Configure alarms from the Spotlight Client

Click Configure Alarms Configure | Alarms.

Select template or connection to configure

Option	Description
Factory Settings	Select to show the standard settings shipped with Spotlight. These settings can be reapplied to a connection. These settings cannot be changed.
Factory Reduced Sensitivity Template	Select to show reduced severity settings shipped with Spotlight. These settings reduce the severity of many alarms raised (compared to standard Factory Settings) and are more likely to raise a high severity alarm only where the situation presents an availability issue. These settings can be reapplied to a connection. These settings can be changed.
Connection	Select a Spotlight connection to show / change alarm configurations for that connection.
Template	Select a template to show / change / reapply a template configuration. Select a template to delete or rename that template. The templates you have previously saved are listed. For more information, see [Configuration templates][enterprise_cfgmonitor_templates].

Select an alarm to configure

The table of alarms is as follows.

Column	Description
Name	The name of the alarm.
Type	The alarm applies to this connection type.
Modified	Yes if the alarm is set to other than the Factory Settings.

Double click on an alarm to [configure the alarm][enterprise_cfgmonitor_alarm].

Information about each alarm is documented under the connection type.

Note: Error Log Entry alarms are no longer configured from here. Configure Error Log Entry alarms from [Configure Error Log Entries][enterprise_cfgmonitor_errorlogentries].

Tip: Use the Search field above the table to quickly locate an alarm. The list of alarms is filtered to match the text you type in the search field.

Reuse this configuration

Apply configuration to…

Optionally, [apply this configuration][enterprise_cfgmonitor_applyconfig] to other connections.

Save to Template

Optionally, save this configuration to a template. Where a template has been selected to configure you will also see options to Delete or Rename the template. For more information, see [Configuration templates][enterprise_cfgmonitor_templates].

Close the dialog

OK

Save the alarm configuration(s) for the selected connection or template.

Cancel

Discard changes to this screen.

Alarm Template Report

The Alarm Template Report provides a list of user-defined alarm templates and the specific connections they are associated with. It also allows users to export the data in CSV format. The Alarm Template Report includes the following columns: Template Name, Connection Type, Connection Name, Connection Display Name, and Template Description. The alarm template applies to all the connection types that Spotlight Enterprise currently supports.

Behavior of Factory Reduced Sensitivity Template

The Factory Reduced Sensitivity Template is a non-default template that comes with the installation of the Spotlight application. Some alarms across all connection types—except MI and Amazon RDS are modified in this template. This template can be further modified, deleted, or renamed.

Since this template does not modify any alarms for MI and Amazon RDS connection types, applying it to those connections would have the same effect as applying the Factory Settings template. For this reason, the Factory Reduced Sensitivity Template can never be associated with MI or Amazon RDS connections, as it would not result in any non-default alarm configurations for those connection types.

Note: As this template behaves identically to the Factory Settings template for MI and Amazon RDS connections, applying it to those connections may overwrite previously modified (non-default) alarms and reset them to their default state. However, since the template does not actively apply any non-default alarm modifications to MI or Amazon RDS, it still won’t be associated with those connections.

Alarm Configuration Changes Report

The Alarm Configuration Changes Report displays details of modified alarms, including changes made to all monitored entities such as databases and operating systems. Users can export these changes in CSV format.

Changes made to the following fields or options will not be reflected in the Alarm Configuration Changes Report.

Alarm Require Ack
Severity (Key Value) - ADD
Severity (Key Value) - Delete
Collect additional diagnostic information
Do not raise alarm for certain values

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