Configuring an Alarm Detection
Create an Alarm Detection configuration by clicking the button in the upper left part of the Desktop window, and then selecting from the menu.
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| Alarm Detection Enabled | Select this checkbox to turn on alarm detection. |
| Description | Enter a statement that describes the Alarm Detection that you are defining. |
| Severity | Select the importance priority of the alarm from the drop-down list. The available severities are:
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Adding an Alarm Condition
At the bottom of the Alarm Detection configuration, click the Add button. The Add Alarm Condition dialog box opens.
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Select a condition in the Alarm Condition drop-down list.
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The Alarm conditions enable you to define specific situations or events for which you want the system to produce an alarm. You configure a condition to produce an alarm whenever a certain behavior occurs, within specific limits.
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System Event
Workflow Alarm Value
Workflow Execution Time
Workflow Group Execution Time
Workflow Throughput
System Event
The System Event condition enables you to setup an Alarm Detection for the various Event types.
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The alarm will be triggered by every 4th occurrence of a "Workflow State Event" during the last 24 hours. |
Workflow Alarm Value
The Workflow Alarm Value condition is a customizable alarm condition. It enables you to have the Alarm Detection watch over a variable that you create and assign through the APL code. To apply the Workflow Alarm Condition use the following guidelines:
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Value | Select an alarm value from the drop-down list. |
Workflow | Click Browse... to enter the workflow instance(s) that you want to apply the alarm to. |
Limits | Summation: Select this check box to add up the Note: Selecting Summation means that the During Last entry refers to the time period during which a sum is added up. Once the set period has ended, that sum is compared with the limit value. For All Workflows: Select this check box to add up the values (see Summation above) of all the workflows that the alarm supervises. Alarm Detector compares this total value with the alarm limit (exceeds or falls below), and generates an alarm message accordingly. Note: This check box can only be selected when Workflow is set to Any. For further information about Limits see the section above, Host Statistic Value. |
Workflow Execution Time
The Workflow Execution Time condition enables you to generate an alarm whenever the execution time of a particular, or all workflows, exceed or fall below the time limit that you specify.
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A telecom provider wants the system to identify a workflow that has recently run out of input, and to generate an alarm that warns about a processing time that is too short.
An alarm is generated whenever an active workflow seems to process data too fast (in less than 2 seconds). |
Workflow Group Execution Time
The Workflow Group Execution Time alarm condition enables you to generate an alarm whenever the execution time of a workflow group exceeds or falls below the time limit that you specify.
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You want the system to generate an alarm if a billing workflow group has been active longer than 3 hours.
The alarm will be triggered if the workflow group has been active longer than 3 hours. |
Workflow Throughput
The Workflow Throughput alarm condition enables you to create an alarm if the volume-per-time processing rate of a particular workflow exceeds, or falls below, the throughput limit that you specify.
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