ASAP 2.8 Server Manual

Using Discrete Object Thresholds (DOTs)
HP NonStop ASAP Server Manual—522303-007
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The Objectives Database
The Objectives Database
The objectives database stores a list of domain names to monitor. If names do not
exist in the database, a default set of objects are autoconfigured for monitoring.
The objectives database stores your objectives thresholds. ASAP produces states for
attributes by comparing objectives from the objectives database with the computed
interval value of the attribute. There are six operators: greater than >; less than <;
equal to =; not equal to <>; greater than or equal to >=; and less than or equal to <=.
A single attribute can have up to six different objectives, one of each type.
You define which entities and entity domains are stored in the objectives database file,
which resides on each node managed by ASAP. You set the file name and location
using the SET OBJECTIVESDB command on page 6-103.
Host-based objectives constitute several types of objectives that you can define.You
control which system or application entities and domains are monitored and define
what the objective thresholds should be for an entity or a specific individual entity
domain. For example, in a 16 CPU system, to configure ASAP to only monitor CPUs 0
through 5 and 12 through 15, use the ASAP MONITOR command Monitor CPU 0, add,
Monitor CPU 1, add, and so on, until all of the CPU entity domains are loaded in the
the ASAP objectives database.
The pre-defined system entities are:
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COMM
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CPU domains 0-15
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DISK
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EXPAND
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FILE
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HYBRID (Optional)
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PROCESS
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PROCESS BUSY domains 0-15
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QUERY
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RDF
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SPOOLER
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SYSTEM
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TAPE
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TCPICMP (Optional)
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TCPIP (Optional)
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TCPPort (Optional)