Performance Monitor Indicator

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 6:53 pm

As part of the Performance Monitoring, can you have it indicate multiple levels of status....

For ex.

I create a Single Memory Performance Monitor..
Have the indicate a Red Color status at 20Megs free.
Have the indicate a Orange Color status at 40Megs free.
Have the indicate a Yellow Color status at 60Megs free.
Have the indicate a Green Color status at 80Megs free.

The only way I can see to do this now is to have multiple Performace Monitors...

Unless someone else has any other suggestions..

TIA

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 6:56 pm

Oh yeah,

Same thing with CPU Monitoring as well.

At 20% Utilization it is Green indication.
At 40% Utilization it is Yellow indication.
At 60% Utilization it is Orange indication.
At 80% Utilization it is Red indication.

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Wed Oct 16, 2002 10:33 pm

Ok, but what we have to do with HostMonitor? Right now each test can have 1 of 3 basic statuses: Good, Bad, Unknown. HostMonitor know how to handle these statuses, it starts specified alert actions.
Now, it we add 3-4 new statuses, how HostMonitor will know what it has to do? what status is good? what status is bad? It looks like we need to change a half of program. Probably several different colors (those have sense just for one or two tests) are not very important? Anyway you can see numeric value that displays monitoring value.
Probably we can add 1 new status like "Warning", change HostMonitor's behavior, change way how it works with actions, etc. But it will not be sooner that version 4.0

Regards
Alex

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:55 am

It is not just 2 tests... Anything that has a variable value. Heck you could use if for the ping response:
<100(Green) 100-200(Yellow) 200-300(Orange) >300(Red)

It could also be used on the File Size or Space Availability:
>10G(Green) 5G-10G(Yellow) 2G-5G(Orange) <2G(Red)

Instead of: Good, Bad, Unknown
Have: Level1(Good)=Green, Level2=Yellow, Level3=Orange, Level4(Bad)=Red, Unknown

There is only 2 additional values, the worst part would be coming up with the logic for each of the test functions.

It would add some code to the program as you state but would add an Extreme amount of functionality to HostMonitor that everyone would go crazy for... It basically adds the ability for us to watch for possible issues and not just when there is total failure...

Please take it under consideration, your program is awesome as it is, but this would IMHO make it unbeatable.

Guest · Post by **Guest** » Thu Oct 17, 2002 8:57 am

What you may be able to do is daisy chain tests.

For example...

If test1 passes goto test2
If test1 fails goto test3

But after it is all said and done return a single status and not one for each of the tests....

KS-Soft · Post by **KS-Soft** » Fri Oct 18, 2002 12:19 am

After 5-level alert mechanism will be implemented:
- 85% of administrators will say "its too complicated to configure everything"
- 10% will say "great"
- 5% of administrators say "its good, but we need 7-level alert mechanism"

May be just implement script engine and 85% of users will not change anything, rest 15% will be able to do whatever they want.
BTW Next version of HM will be able to perform test using external scripts.

Regards
Alex