This section covers the following topics:
The Alarms view enables you to modify global settings and agent-specific settings for alarms.
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Click Alarms. |
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Normal — Store and display most alarms — essential and best practices; only critical and fatal statistical alarms. |
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Tuning — Store and display all SQL Server alarms sent to Foglight. |
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Performance — Store and display only availability and SQL PI related alarms. |
Foglight 6.1.0 uses alarm templates to gather alarm rules into a domain-specific template that is easily modified and applied to targets. You can customize how the alarms generated by the default Foglight for SQL Server rules are triggered and displayed in by assigning alarm templates via the Alarm Template Settings tab. You can apply an existing template, create a new template using an existing template as reference, or create a template based on an agent. All changes to alarm templates apply to the selected agents.
Refer to Viewing, Creating, and Managing Alarm Templates in the Foglight 6.1.0 User Guide for more information.
IMPORTANT: Avoid editing Foglight for SQL Server rules in the Administration > Rules & Notifications > Rule Management dashboard. Default rules may be modified during regular software updates and your edits will be lost. Always use the Alarm Templates dashboard. |
The Alarms list controls the contents displayed to the right and the tasks that are available.
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All Alarms – Displays all rules with configured alarms and indicates whether alarms are enabled. In this view, you can enable or disable alarms for all the rules at once. You can also set email notifications and define mail server settings.W hen viewing all alarms, the Alarm Template Settings tab is displayed, enabling configuration of alarm templates. |
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Category of rules – Displays a set of related rules with configured alarms. In this view, you can set email notifications for the category of rules. |
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Rule name – Displays the Email Notification Status for the selected rule. If the rule has multiple severity levels, displays the notification configured for each severity level. In this view, you can enable or disable email notifications for the alarm and edit alarm messages. |
You can complete the following tasks:
To see descriptions of the rules, follow the steps described in Reviewing Rule Definitions .
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In the Alarms view, click the Alarm Template Settings tab. |
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Select Assign a template to selected agent(s), |
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Click Save and Navigate. |
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Select Create a new template from the drop-down. This will allow you to create a new template based of an existing template. |
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In the Clone from field, select the template to copy. |
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Click Save and Navigate. |
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The template will be displayed in the Alarm Template dashboard. Refer to Viewing, Creating, and Managing Alarm Templates in the Foglight 6.1.0 User Guide for more information on editing alarm templates. |
When a rule has severity levels, a Threshold section appears in the Alarm Settings tab showing the severity levels and bounds by agent. For an example, see the DBSS - Worker Thread rule. The threshold values corresponds to the lower bounds shown in this table. Many rules, such as Baseline rules, do not have severity levels and thresholds.
When editing thresholds, ensure that the new values make sense in context with the other threshold values. For most metrics, threshold values are set so that Warning < Critical < Fatal. However, in metrics where normal performance has a higher value, such as DBSS - Buffer Cache Hit Rate, the threshold values are reversed: Warning > Critical > Fatal.
IMPORTANT: The procedure below is a summary. Refer to Viewing, Creating, and Managing Alarm Templates in the Foglight 6.1.0 User Guide for more information on editing alarm templates for more information on working with alarm templates. |
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Edit the rules using the procedure described in Viewing, Creating, and Managing Alarm Templates in the Foglight 6.1.0 User Guide |
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