Decision Table: Monitoring Attributes for the Attribute Types

Work through the following table to make your design decisions and to provide the information that you require to implement your data supplier. Use the results to adjust one of the template reports available in the system (see Data Supplier for Users Logged On: Report RSDSUSER). Your data supplier will then be ready to use.

This table contains the object-specific and attribute-specific decisions that you need to make. For example, you need to define alert threshold values and assign a criticality level to status and log messages. For the table containing organizational and structural decisions, see Decision Table: Organizational Decisions.

Design Consideration Possibilities and Specifications

Definition of the performance attribute

Set the following values for every performance attribute:

  • Name of the attribute in the Alert Monitor
  • Superordinate MTE in the monitoring tree
  • Unit (up to four characters)
  • MTE class
  • Attribute group
  • Define whether alerts are to be triggered when the threshold value is exceeded or when the reported values fall below it.
  • Define whether alerts are to be ignored during the warm-up period (period after the instance is started).
  • Threshold values (do not choose identical values to avoid constant switching of the status):
    • Yellow alert (warning)
    • Red alert (problem)
    • Resetting of status from red to yellow
    • Resetting of the status from yellow to green

 

Definition of the status attribute

Set the following values for every status attribute:

  • Name of the attribute in the Alert Monitor
  • Superordinate MTE in the monitoring tree
  • Color of the basic status of the attribute:
    • Green: If there is no message and no unprocessed alert, the attribute is green (everything is OK).
    • White: If there is no message and no unprocessed alert, the attribute is white (attribute is inactive, no values available).
  • Determine when alerts are to be generated for status messages:
    • Always
    • Only if the criticality level changes (a higher criticality level is reported)
    • Only if a new message (new number), criticality, or severity, is reported.
    • Never

Definition of the log attribute

Set the following values for every log attribute:

  • Name of the attribute in the Alert Monitor
  • Superordinate MTE in the monitoring tree
  • Message that is to be displayed in the Alert Monitor:
    • Last message added to the log attribute
    • Currently most-important message (highest criticality and severity in the log)
    • Most important message in the last few minutes; set the length of the period in this case

Definition of the text attribute 

Name of the attribute in the Alert Monitor

  • Superordinate MTE in the monitoring tree
  • Text to be displayed (up to 256 characters)

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