ASAP 2.8 Client Manual

Configuring ASAP
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Monitor Object State Changes Check Box
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Specify an audible alert state change threshold
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To configure e-mail, wireless phone, and pager alerts and report notifications
Monitor Object State Changes Check Box
The Monitor Object State Changes check box controls whether ASAP performs object
state change monitoring.
When you check this check box and click the Apply button, ASAP monitors object state
changes based on the settings of other options in this dialog. If you do not select this
check box, no state change monitoring occurs.
Display Log Window Check Box
The Display Log Window check box controls whether the OSC window is displayed.
When you check this check box and click the Apply button, ASAP creates the Object
State Change window. You can use the OSC window to monitor and analyze object
state changes. If you do not check this check box, the OSC window does not appear,
but OSC monitoring can continue in the background, if you checked the Monitor Object
State Changes check box.
You can display the OSC window at any time from the Browse window by selecting
View… State Changes… or by clicking the State Change toolbar button on the Browse
window.
State Upgrades Monitored Check Box
The State Upgrades Monitored check box controls whether to monitor state upgrades.
When you check this check box and click the Apply button, ASAP monitors state
upgrades. If you do not check this box, state upgrades are not logged in the OSC log.
State upgrades occur when the state of an object improves. For example, when an
object's state changes from Down to Up, the state of the object is said to have
improved. When the state of an object changes from Warning to Up, its state has
improved.
For operations management purposes, state upgrades are not always monitored.
Operations management functions are typically concerned with tracking when things
degrade. Downgrades occur when the state of an object has degraded. For example,
when an object's state changes from Up to Down, the state of the object has degraded.
For performance analysis purposes, both state upgrades and downgrades are
sometimes monitored. For example, by monitoring both performance state upgrades
and downgrades, an analyst can determine not only when an object's utilization
increased, but also when it decreased. From a performance perspective, it might be
important to know that a disk such as $DATA, went from the Up state to the High
utilization state at 8:05. It might be equally important to know that $DATA went from
High utilization to the Up state at 8:08.