Managing Alarm Templates
Foglight uses alarm rules to define conditions that indicate problems in monitored systems. When these conditions are met, an alarm is triggered.
Alarm templates allow you to configure a set of alarm rules and apply these rules in bulk to targets in your environment. Using a customized template, you can modify the threshold values for triggering alarms, and enable or disable certain alarms for a set of targets.
Use the Alarm Templates dashboard to view the alarms and rules in the default factory template and customize those alarms as required for your environment.
For detailed, step-by-step configuration options, refer to the Foglight Alarm Template video.
For better understanding of Alarm Templates, refer to the following concepts:
Alarms
Foglight uses rules to apply business logic to data collected from your environment. When pre-defined conditions are met, an alarm will be triggered. Using alarm templates, you can determine which alarms to apply to which targets, and configure threshold values as needed.
Domains
Foglight domains are components grouped together by a common technology. This can be a database type (such as DB2) or a general category (such as Infrastructure). Each domain has a default set of rules appropriate for the underlying technologies of that domain.
Targets
Targets are infrastructure objects assigned to a template for monitoring. Targets can be assigned to only one template. Targets that are not assigned to a template are monitored by the default alarm rules in the factory template.
Default Templates
Foglight includes a factory template, which is used as the default template unless a different default is configured. You can select a default template for each domain, and it will be applied to objects in that domain without the need to add them as targets to the template.
This section covers the following key areas:
