ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

Configuring ASAP
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Attribute Property Sheet
Use State Graph Value Option
The Use State Graph Value option indicates that attribute state information is
determined by the state variable associated with that attribute. The attribute value is
graphed.
Entities such as App have user-defined metrics that provide both value and state
information in ordered pairs of numbers; for example, Busy and BusyState. The metric
portion is the actual value of the attribute, and the state portion is the entity agent’s
state determination objective associated with the metric. When you select the Use
State Graph Value option, the actual metric value is graphed, but the objective state of
the value is determined by the state variable associated with the metric value.
This option lets you use the ASAP Extension to configure host-defined performance
state objectives and to see a graphical representation of these states in the ASAP
Client GUI, the OEM/OIL, and any OEM adapter-enabled Enterprise Management
framework.
Use State Graph State Option
The Use State Graph State option indicates that attribute state information is
determined by the state variable associated with that attribute, and that state value
should also be graphed. Because larger state values indicate higher alert levels, this
option is useful for graphically drawing your attention to the most significant alerts.
Entities such as App have user-defined metrics that provide value and state
information in ordered pairs of numbers; for example, Busy and BusyState. The metric
portion is the actual value of the performance attribute. The state portion is the entity
agent’s state determination objective associated with the metric. When you select the
Use State Graph State option, the state value is graphed and used to determine the
state of the metric.
When you choose this option, although the value of the state is graphed, the actual
metric value appears in all numeric fields such as the grid portion of the Browse
window, pop-up captions in the graph, and the OEM context fields. This option is useful
if you want the relative size of graph elements to indicate alert levels. For example,
larger graph elements can indicate larger or higher alert levels.
You can use this option in several ways:
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It lets system and application entities associate host-defined availability objectives
with metrics, and see a graphical representation of these states in the ASAP Client,
the OEM/OIL, and any OEM adapter-enabled Enterprise Management framework.
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It can display the state of an attribute as determined by the ASAP RANK
command. When you specify Use State Graph State, the state of the attribute is
determined by the RANK command. All StatePair attributes for entities such as
App, CPU, Disk, Expand, File, Node, Process, Processbusy, RDF, Spooler,
System, Tape, and TMF can have availability objectives defined using the ASAP
RANK command.