Alarm history filters – HP XP Performance Advisor Software User Manual
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Click Filter. HP XP7 Performance Advisor filters the existing set of records and displays only
those that match the selection criteria on the Alarm History screen. The records are displayed
in an ascending order. For more information on Alarms History screen, see
Click Clear Filter any time while selecting values from the filter options. It removes the current
selection and display all the records in the Alarms History table.
Alarm History filters
The following table describes the Alarm History filters.
Description
Screen elements
Displays the metrics for which components are selected
and alarms configured on them.
Metric list
In
addition, the All option lists all the alarms history records
that
are created on the different components in the selected
XP
or XP7 disk array.
Displays the following error types:
Error Status list
•
Email errors
•
SNMP errors
•
Script errors
•
All errors
•
No errors
Select one of the above-mentioned error types to filter
records and view the status of the respective alarm and
SNMP notifications, and script executions. If you select
Email errors, SNMP errors, Script errors, or All errors, HP
XP7 Performance Advisor returns anything that is non-zero
for these selections. If you select No errors, HP XP7
Performance Advisor displays only zero items, that is the
alarms that were successfully dispatched.
Displays the disk arrays for which alarms are generated.
Arrays list
This list displays the following options:
Time Stamp list
•
Time posted (default selection): If this option is selected,
the time stamps of when the records are posted on the
Alarm History screen are displayed. A record for a
component is first posted on the Alarm History screen
when the following conditions are met:
◦
Alarm is enabled on the component.
◦
Performance data collection is in progress.
HP XP7 Performance Advisor pings the component in
the next data collection cycle to receive its current
performance value, and also posts a new record on the
Alarm History screen. HP XP7 Performance Advisor
again posts a new record for the same component and
displays the new time of posting under Time Posted
when one of the following conditions is met:
◦
The alarm is disabled or there are no I/Os
transactions on the component.
◦
The performance of a component rises or drops
below the set threshold level.
•
Time updated: If this option is selected, the time stamps
when HP XP7 Performance Advisor last collected the
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