====== Servers properties ====== ===== Purpose ===== A BusinessObjects system is configured via a large set of properties, and its state can be analyzed via a set of metrics. This monitor allows to track property and metrics values and notify if not set to the appropriate value or out of the appropriate range. ===== Configuration hints ===== **Discover property and metric names** * Press the button "Load properties" to get the list of properties and metrics available for all servers of the system. * All selected properties will be added in an individual monitoring rule. * You can also load property current values by selecting a rule and pressing the wizard button. * This will help the find the proper setting **Thresholds** * If the property value is alphanumeric, simply type the expected value and you will be notified when the current value is different. * If the property or metric value is numeric, you can set use the multi threshold syntax to define a threshold per severity: G2W:95 W2M:98 (Green to Warning if reaches 95, Warning to Major if reaches 98) * You can filter on the server name to target a specific server. **Report** * You can define the properties and metrics you want to see in the report. * For that, just create a rule for each one and activate the report check box ===== Surveillance table ===== ^Parameter^Description^ ^Active|If checked, the rule will be active.| ^Server|The server(s) concerned by the rule| ^Property|The monitored property| ^Expected value|The value at which the property is expected to stay. If Property is a number you can use the advanced threshold syntax.| ^Severity|The severity of the alarm| ^Auto clear|If checked, the alarm will be cleared as soon as the alarm condition is not met anymore.| ^Prefix|This field allows to add custom text within the alarm message. %MSG% variable will contain the actual generated message and can be used such as: "my_prefix %MSG% my_suffix". By default, tag will be used as prefix.| ^Alarm|If checked, this line of surveillance will be used for alarm generation.| ===== Examples ===== ^Active^Server^Property^Expected value^Severity^Auto clear^Prefix^Alarm^ |true|*|LogLevel|Low|CRITICAL|true| |true| **Effect** : An alarm will be generated if on one of the servers the property LogLevel is configured to something else than Low.