Settings window: Monitors page

This topic describes the Settings window: Monitors page in IBM Director.

Fields

Monitor pane
The monitors listed in bold type are used for the Performance Analysis functions. The threshold settings for these monitors are essential to the optimum function of the Performance Analysis. If you change the threshold settings for these monitors, the effect on Performance Analysis will be unpredictable.
Threshold Settings
Thresholds can be set using the same scale in which the monitor is measured. This scale can be percent, a unit such as a megabyte, or a numerical ratio. If the scale is percent, then a threshold can be set anywhere between 0 and 100 percent. If the scale is a unit, a threshold should be set somewhere between 0 units and the total units available. If the scale is a ratio, such as packets/sec, the threshold is a number without any units.
Critical threshold
Indicates the percentage you want to implement for the critical threshold of the selected monitor.
Warning threshold
Indicates the percentage you want to implement for the warning threshold of the selected monitor.
Show thresholds as percent of maximum value
If the scale is anything other than percent, that is, a unit or ratio, the threshold can be set either in that scale or in a percent. Select this check box if you want the value you enter in the Critical threshold and Warning threshold fields to represent a percent. This check box can only be enabled if the selected monitor can have a threshold value alternatively set in either percent or another scale.
Note: If the monitor threshold settings for one system are different from that of another system, Capacity Manager is not able to display the thresholds on a graph of both systems.

For example, if you select the monitor, Drive C:Space remaining and you select the box labeled Show thresholds as percent of maximum value, you will not see the critical and warning threshold lines on the graph when you are viewing multiple systems with different size C drives because the threshold settings will be different for different systems. However, if you clear the box labeled Show thresholds as percent of maximum value and enter absolute threshold values, for example, 200 and 500 for the respective critical and warning values, then you can see data for more than one systems on one graph because the thresholds are the same for each system.

Adjust graph for best viewing
Adjust range to peak value
When you select this option, the vertical range of the graph is adjusted to the height of the tallest peak on the graph. For example, if you are measuring a percentage and all of your data is less than 25%, selecting this option will change the display range to 0-30%.
Monitor information
This section displays monitor sampling frequency data and whether minimum/maximum data was requested. Both of these parameters were defined in the report definition used to generate your current report.

The sampling frequency data indicates how often monitor data was collected for the report. Click one of the monitors in the left pane to see the sampling frequency that was defined for that monitor.

Return to Defaults
Return the settings for the currently selected monitor to its default values.

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