2 Host

Cumulative CPU Wait Time (Seconds)

Cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent Waiting for CPU over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Data Page Fault Sleep Time (Seconds)

Cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in Data Page Faults over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Major Page Faults

The cumulative number of Major Page Faults engendered by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Minor Page Faults

The cumulative number of Minor Page Faults engendered by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Character IO (bytes) Read and Written

The cumulative number of character I/O bytes Read and Written by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Blocks Read

The cumulative number of blocks Read by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Blocks Written

The cumulative number of blocks Written by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of Involuntary Context Switches

The cumulative number of Involuntary Context Switches made by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Messages Received

The cumulative number of Messages Received by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Messages Sent

The cumulative number of Messages Sent by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of Signals Received

The cumulative number of Signals taken by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of System Calls Made

The cumulative number of system calls made by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of Voluntary Context Switches

The cumulative number of Voluntary Context Switches made by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Project Lock-Wait Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping on User Lock Waits over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Project Other Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in all other ways over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Stop Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent Stopped over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Swap Operations

The cumulative number of swap operations engendered by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative System Mode Time (seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent in System mode over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative System Page Fault Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in System Page Faults over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative System Trap Time (seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent in System Traps over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Text Page Fault Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in Text Page Faults over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative User Mode Time (seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent in User mode over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Number of Processes Owned by Project

The number of processes owned by the project measured in the aggregate. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Project CPU Time (%)

The percent CPU time used by the process. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Project Process Memory Size (%)

The ratio of the process resident set size to physical memory. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Project's Total Process Heap Size (KiloBytes)

The total number of KiloBytes of memory consumed by the process heap at the time that it is sampled. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Project's Total Process Resident Set Size (KiloBytes)

The resident set size of the process in kilobytes. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Project's Total Process Virtual Memory Size (KiloBytes)

The size of the process virtual address space in kilobytes. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Total Number of Threads in Project's Processes

The number of threads active in the current Process. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative CPU Wait Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent Waiting for CPU over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Data Page Fault Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in Data Page Faults over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Major Page Faults

The cumulative number of Major Page Faults engendered by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Minor Page Faults

The cumulative number of Minor Page Faults engendered by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Character IO (bytes) Read and Written

The cumulative number of character I/O bytes Read and Written by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Blocks Read

The cumulative number of blocks Read by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Blocks Written

The cumulative number of blocks Written by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of Involuntary Context Switches

The cumulative number of Involuntary Context Switches made by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Messages Received

The cumulative number of Messages Received by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number Of Messages Sent

The cumulative number of Messages Sent by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of Signals Received

The cumulative number of Signals taken by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of System Calls Made

The cumulative number of system calls made by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Number of Voluntary Context Switches

The cumulative number of Voluntary Context Switches made by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Stop Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent Stopped over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative System Mode Time (seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent in System mode over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative System Page Fault Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in System Page Faults over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative System Trap Time (seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent in System Traps over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Swap Operations

The cumulative number of Swap Operations engendered by the process over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative Text Page Fault Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in Text Page Faults over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative User Lock-Wait Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping on User Lock Waits over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative User Mode Time (seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent in User mode over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Cumulative User Other Sleep Time (Seconds)

The cumulative number of seconds that this process has spent sleeping in all other ways over its lifetime. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Number of Processes Owned by User

The number of processes owned by the user measured in the aggregate. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Total Number of Threads in User's Processes

The number of threads active in the current Process. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

User CPU Time (%)

The percent CPU time used by the process. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

User Process Memory Size (%)

The ratio of the process resident set size to physical memory. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

User's Total Process Heap Size (KiloBytes)

The total number of kilobytes of memory consumed by the process heap at the time that it is sampled. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

User's Total Process Resident Set Size (KiloBytes)

The resident set size of the process in kilobytes. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

User's Total Process Virtual Memory Size (KiloBytes)

The size of the process virtual address space in kilobytes. This metric is available only on Solaris version 9 and later.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The Solaris CIM Object Manager

User Action

Specific to your site.

Buffer Cache Read Hit Ratio (%)

Represents the number of reads from block devices to buffer cache as a percentage of all buffer read

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Buffer Cache Reads (per second)

Represents the number of reads performed on the buffer cache per second.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Buffer Cache Write Hit Ratio (%)

Represents the number of writes from block devices to buffer cache as a percentage of all buffer writes.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Buffer Cache Writes (per second)

Represents the number of writes performed on the buffer cache per second.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Physical I/O Reads (per second)

Represents the number of reads per second from character devices using physical I/O mechanisms.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An unusually high value may indicate an abnormal situation, so it is important to set thresholds based on the average value observed over a period of time. An abnormally high value may cause performance issues. The user action varies from case to case, observe the running processes to track down any errant process. Placing highly active directories on different disks may help.

Physical I/O Writes (per second)

Represents the number of writes per second from character devices using physical I/O mechanisms.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An unusually high value may indicate an abnormal situation, so it is important to set thresholds based on the average value observed over a period of time. An abnormally high value may cause performance issues. The user action varies from case to case, observe the running processes to track down any errant process. Placing highly active directories on different disks may help.

Physical Reads (per second)

Represents the number of physical reads per second from block devices to the system buffer cache.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An unusually high value may indicate an abnormal situation, so it is important to set thresholds based on the average value observed over a period of time. An abnormally high value may cause performance issues. The user action varies from case to case, observe the running processes to track down any errant process. Placing highly active directories on different disks may help.

Physical Writes (per second)

Represents the number of physical writes per second from block devices to the system buffer cache.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An unusually high value may indicate an abnormal situation, so it is important to set thresholds based on the average value observed over a period of time. An abnormally high value may cause performance issues. The user action varies from case to case, observe the running processes to track down any errant process. Placing highly active directories on different disks may help.

CPU Idle Time (%)

Represents the percentage of time that the CPU was idle and the system did not have an outstanding disk I/O request. This metric checks the percentage of processor time in idle mode for the CPU(s) specified by the Host CPU parameter, such as cpu_stat0, CPU0, or * (for all CPUs on the system).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates an underutilized cpu. The user action varies from case to case.

CPU Interrupt Time (%)

Represents the percentage of time that the CPU receives and services hardware interruptions during representative intervals. This metric checks the percentage of processor time in interrupt mode for the CPU(s) specified by the Host CPU parameter, such as cpu_stat0, CPU0, or * (for all CPUs on the system).

This metric is available only on Windows.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "CPU Number" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "CPU Number" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "CPU Number" object, use the Edit Thresholds page. See the Editing Thresholds topic in the Enterprise Manager online help for information on accessing the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric are Performance Data counters.

User Action

This indicates the amount of time spent by the processor in handling interrupts. If an unusually high value is observed, there is a possibility of some hardware

CPU System Time (%)

Represents the percentage of time that the CPU is running in system mode (kernel). This metric checks the percentage of processor time in system mode for the CPU(s) specified by the Host CPU parameter, such as cpu_stat0, CPU0, or * (for all CPUs on the system).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the machine is doing a lot of work at the system (kernel) level. The user action varies from case to case.

CPU User Time (%)

Represents the portion of processor time running in user mode. This metric checks the percentage of processor time in user mode for the CPU(s) specified by the Host CPU parameter, such as cpu_stat0, CPU0, or * (for all CPUs on the system).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates the cpu is doing a lot of work at the user (application) level. An examination of the top processes on the system may help identify problematic processes.

CPU Utilization (%) of a CPU

This figure represents the percentage utilization of a CPU

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the system is under heavy load. If the value is consistently high, consider reducing the load on the system.

CPU Wait Time (%)

Represents the percentage of time that the CPU was idle during which the system had an outstanding disk I/O request. This metric checks the percentage of processor time in wait mode for the CPU(s) specified by the Host CPU parameter, such as cpu_stat0, CPU0, or * (for all CPUs on the system).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

A high value indicates that the cpu spends a lot of time waiting for disk i/o to complete. Examine the disk errors and disk activity metrics to see if there are any problems with disk performance. Consider keeping heavily accessed directories on separate disks.

ECACHE in MB

This is the size of the Cache memory measured in MB.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Frequency in MHZ

This is the clock frequency of the processor.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Is HyperThread Enabled

This tells whether hyper threading is enabled for this processor or not.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Implementation

Implementation type of processor.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Number of CPUs

This is the count the number rows having the same information in other columns like vendor_name or num_cores. This is added to make at least one key in table.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

MASK

This is Die used to manufacture the CPU. Solaris prtdiag has CPU mask field. This column stores that information.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Number of Cores per Physical CPU

This represents number of cores per physical CPU. For example. for dual core processors this count will be two and for quad core processor this count will be four.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Revision

This is the revision.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Number Of Threads Per Physical CPU

This effectively represents the number of logical processor per physical processors. For example, for one dual core processor with hyper thread enabled, this value will be four.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Vendor Name

This is vendor who has manufactured the processors. For example Intel and AMD.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/proc/cpuinfo

User Action

None.

Average Disk I/O Service Time (ms)

Represents the sum of average wait time and average run time.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "Disk Device" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "Disk Device" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "Disk Device" object, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

This number should be low. A high number can indicate a disk that is slow due to excessive load or hardware issues. See also the CPU in IO-Wait (%) metric.

Average Disk I/O Wait Time (ms)

Represents the average time spent by the command waiting on the queue for getting executed.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "Disk Device" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "Disk Device" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "Disk Device" object, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

A high figure indicates a slow disk. Use the OS iostat -xn command to check wait time and service time for local disks and NFS mounted file systems. See also the CPU in IO-Wait (%) metric.

Average Outstanding Disk I/O Requests

Represents the average number of commands waiting for service (queue length).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Average Run Time (ms)

Represents the average time spent by the command on the active queue waiting for its execution to be completed.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Bulk I/O Ticks

Represents the time spent in Input/Output operations (ms).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

Linux: /proc/diskstats or /proc/partitions

User Action

Specific to your site.

Difference in Number of Reads

Represents the number of disk reads from the last collection.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

Linux: /proc/diskstats or /proc/partitions

User Action

Specific to your site.

Difference in Number of Writes

Represents the number of disk reads from the last collection.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

Linux: /proc/diskstats or /proc/partitions

User Action

Specific to your site.

Disk Block Writes (per second)

Represents the number of blocks (512 bytes) written per second.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Disk Block Reads (per second)

Represents the number of blocks (512 bytes) read per second.

Note: On HPUNIX, this metric is named Disk Blocks Transferred (per second).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Disk Device Busy (%)

This metric represents disk device busy percentage.

Note: On HPUNIX, this metric is named Device Busy (%).

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Disk Reads (per second)

Represents the disk reads per second for the specified disk device.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Disk Writes (per second)

Represents the disk writes per second for the specified disk device.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Hard Errors

Represents the error count of hard errors encountered while accessing the disk. Hard errors are considered serious and may be traced to misconfigured or bad disk devices.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Soft Errors

Represents the error count of soft errors encountered while accessing the disk. Soft errors are synonymous to warnings.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Total

Represents the sum of all errors on the particular device

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Transport Errors

Represents the error count of network errors encountered. This generally indicates a problem with the network layer

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Specific to your site.

Fan Status

Represents the status of the fan.

This metric is available only on Dell Poweredge Linux Systems.

The following table lists the possible values for this metric and their meaning.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each unique combination of "Chassis Index" and "Fan Index" objects.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any unique combination of "Chassis Index" and "Fan Index" objects, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each unique combination of "Chassis Index" and "Fan Index" objects, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

SNMP MIB object: coolingDeviceStatus (1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.700.12.1.5)

User Action

None.

Location

Provides a description of the location of the fan. Example values are "CPU Fan", "PCI Fan", and "Memory Fan".

This metric is available only on Dell Poweredge Linux Systems.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

SNMP MIB object: coolingDeviceLocationName (1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.700.12.1.8)

User Action

None.

Blocks Read by Directory Search Routine (per second)

Represents the number of file system blocks read per second performing direct lookup.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

The OS sar command is used to sample cumulative activity counters maintained by the OS. The data is obtained by sampling system counters once in a five-second interval. The results are essentially the number of lookuppn() calls made over this five-second period divided by five.

User Action

None.

iget() Calls (per second)

Represents the number of system iget() calls made per second. iget is a file access system routine.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

This data is obtained using the OS sar command, which is used to sample cumulative activity counters maintained by the OS. The data is obtained by sampling system counters once in a five-second interval. The results are essentially the number of iget() calls made over this five-second period divided by five.

lookuppn() Calls (per second)

Represents the number of file system lookuppn() (pathname translation) calls made per second.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

The OS sar command is used to sample cumulative activity counters maintained by the OS. The data is obtained by sampling system counters once in a five-second interval. The results are essentially the number of lookuppn() calls made over this five-second period divided by five.

User Action

None.

File or Directory Attribute Not Found

Reports issues encountered in fetching the attributes of the file or directory. Errors encountered in monitoring the files and directories specified by the key value based thresholds are reported.

Note: This metric is not available on IBM AIX.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "File or Directory Name" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Looks for the attributes for file and directories like inode id, user id, and group id. If not found an alert is raised so that user can verify.

File or Directory Permissions

Fetches the octal value of file permissions on the different variations of UNIX operating systems including Linux. Setting a key value specific warning or critical threshold value against this metric would result in the monitoring of a critical file or directory. For example, to monitor the file permissions for file name /etc/passwd, you should set a threshold for /etc/passwd.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "File or Directory Name" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

An alert will be raised if the permissions for a file or directory have changed. User may want to verify the change.

File or Directory Size (MB)

Fetches the current size of the given file or directory in megabytes. Setting a key value specific warning or critical threshold value against this metric would result in monitoring of a critical file or directory. For example, to monitor the file permissions for directory /absolute_directory_path, you should set a threshold for /absolute_directory_path.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "File or Directory Name" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

If a threshold is exceeded, you may need to take action to adjust the file size or the threshold level.

File or Directory Size Change Rate (KB/minute)

Provides the value for the rate at which the file�s size is changing. Setting a key value specific warning or critical threshold value against this metric would result in monitoring of the critical file or directory. For example, to monitor the file change rate for the file name /absolute_file_path, the operator should set a threshold for /absolute_file_path.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "File or Directory Name" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "File or Directory Name" object, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Rate of change of file/directory. An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates sudden increase in size. Users may want to take some action based on alert.

Filesystem

Represents the name of the disk device resource.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

Filesystem Size (MB)

Represents the total space (in megabytes) allocated in the file system.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

Filesystem Space Available (%)

Represents the percentage of free space available in the file system.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each "Mount Point" object.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any "Mount Point" object, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each "Mount Point" object, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

Use the OS du -k command to check which directories are taking up the most space (du -k|sort -rn).

Filesystem Utilization (MB)

Represents the total space, expressed in megabytes, allocated in the file system.

This metric is available only on Windows.

Data Source

The data source for this metric is GetDiskFreeSpaceEx.

User Action

A high value indicates that the filesystem has very little free space remaining.User might want to manage the free space.

Failed Requests for Large Kernel Memory

This metric represents the Number of requests for large memory that failed, that is, requests that were not satisfied.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

Failed Requests for Oversize Kernel Memory

This metric represents the number of oversized requests made that could not be satisfied. Oversized memory requests are allocated dynamically so there is no pool for such requests.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

Failed Requests for Small Kernel Memory

This metric represents the number of requests for small memory that failed, that is, requests that were not satisfied.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

KMA Available for Large Memory Requests (Bytes)

This metric represents the amount of memory, in bytes, the kernel memory allocation (KMA) has for the large pool; the pool used for allocating and reserving large memory requests.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

KMA for Oversize Memory Requests (Bytes)

This metric represents the amount of memory allocated for oversized memory requests.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

KMA for Small Memory Requests

This metric represents the amount of memory, in bytes, the Kernel Memory Allocation has for the small pool; the pool used for allocating and reserving small memory requests.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

Memory Allocated for Large Memory Requests (Bytes)

This metric represents the amount of memory, in bytes, the kernel allocated to satisfy large memory requests.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

Memory Allocated for Small Memory Requests (Bytes)

This metric represents the amount of memory, in bytes, the kernel allocated to satisfy small memory requests.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

CPU in I/O Wait (%)

Represents the average number of jobs waiting for I/O in the last interval.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

A high percentage of I/O wait can indicate a hardware problem, a slow NFS server, or poor load-balancing among local file systems and disks. Check the system messages log for any hardware errors. Use the iostat -xn command or the nfsstat -c (NFS client-side statistics) command or both to determine which disks or file systems are slow to respond. Check to see if the problem is with one or more swap partitions, as lack of swap or poor disk load balancing can cause these to become overloaded. Depending on the specific problem, fixes may include: NFS client or server tuning, hardware replacement, moving applications to other file systems, adding swap space, or restructuring a file system for better performance.

CPU in System Mode (%)

For UNIX-based platforms, this metric represents the amount of CPU being used in SYSTEM mode as a percentage of total CPU processing power.

For Windows, this metric represents the percentage of time the process threads spent executing code in privileged mode.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the machine is doing a lot of work at the system (kernel) level. The user action varies from case to case.

CPU in User Mode (%)

For UNIX-based platforms, this metric represents the amount of CPU being used in USER mode as a percentage of total CPU processing power.For Windows, this metric represents the percentage of time the processor spends in the user mode. This metric displays the average busy time as a percentage of the sample time.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates the cpu is doing a lot of work at the user (application) level. An examination of the top processes on the system may help identify problematic processes.

CPU Interrupt Time (%)

Represents the percentage of time the processor spends receiving and servicing hardware interrupts during sample intervals. This value is an indirect indicator of the activity of devices that generate interrupts, such as the system clock, the mouse, disk drivers, data communication lines, network interface cards, and other peripheral devices. These devices normally interrupt the processor when they have completed a task or require attention. Normal thread execution is suspended during interrupts. Most system clocks interrupt the processor every 10 milliseconds, creating a background of interrupt activity. Suspends normal thread execution during interrupts.

This metric is available only on Windows.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric are Performance Data counters.

User Action

None.

CPU Queue Length

Processor Queue Length is the number of ready threads in the processor queue. There is a single queue for processor time even on computers with multiple processors. A sustained processor queue of less than 10 threads per processor is normally acceptable, dependent on the workload.

This metric is available only on Windows.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric are Performance Data counters.

User Action

A consistently high value indicates a number of CPU bound tasks. This information should be corelated with other metrics such as Page Transfer Rate. Tuning the system, accompanied with additional memory, should help.

CPU Utilization (%)

For UNIX-based platforms, this metric represents the amount of CPU utilization as a percentage of total CPU processing power available.

For Windows, this metric represents the percentage of time the CPU spends to execute a non-Idle thread. CPU Utilization (%) is the primary indicator of processor activity.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the system is under heavy load. If the value is consistently high, consider reducing the load on the system.

Free Logical Memory (%)

Represents logical free memory in a system (discounting memory used for filesystem buffers). Note that this memory can potentially be freed, and may not be available immediately.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

Linux: /proc/meminfo

AIX: libperfstat

User Action

A very low value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the system is running out of RAM and this could be due to one or more of the following reasons. The first is that there is more than the planned number of processes running on the system. The second is that the processes are taking a lot more memory than expected. The third reason is that a specific process is leaking memory consistently.

Free Memory (%)

Represents logical free memory in a system (discounting memory used for filesystem buffers). Note that this memory can potentially be freed, and may not be available immediately.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

On Linux OS this value might always be close to 0%. Please refer Free logical memory (%) for actual free memory that is available for the users. User should not take any action based on the value of this metric

Longest Service Time (ms)

Represents the maximum of the average service time of all disks. Units are represented in milliseconds.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

Memory Page Scan Rate (per second)

For UNIX-based systems, this metric represents the number of pages per second scanned by the page stealing daemon.

For Windows, this metric represents the rate at which pages are read from or written to disk to resolve hard page faults. The metric is a primary indicator of the kinds of faults that cause system-wide delays.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

If this number is zero or close to zero, then you can be sure the system has sufficient memory. If scan rate is always high, then adding memory will definitely help.

Memory Utilization (%)

Represents the amount of free memory as a percentage of total memory.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

On Linux OS this value might always be close to 100%. Please refer to Free logical memory (%) for actual free memory that is available for the users. User should not take any action based on the value of this metric.

Page Transfers Rate

Indicates the rate at which pages are read from or written to disk to resolve hard page faults. It is a primary indicator of the kinds of faults that cause system wide delays. It is counted in numbers of pages. It includes pages retrieved to satisfy faults in the file system cache (usually requested by applications) non-cached mapped memory files.

This metric is available only on Windows.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric are Windows Performance counters.

User Action

High transfer rates indicate a memory contention. Adding memory would help.

Run Queue Length (1 minute average)

Represents the average number of processes in memory and subject to be run in the last interval. This metric checks the run queue.

This metric is not available on Windows.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

Check the load on the system using the UNIX uptime or top commands. Also, check for processes using too much CPU time by using the top and ps -ef commands. Note that the issue may be a large number of instances of one or more processes, rather than a few processes each taking up a large amount of CPU time. Kill processes using excessive CPU time.

Run Queue Length (5 minute average)

Represents the average number of processes in memory and subject to be run in the last interval. This metric checks the run queue.

This metric is not available on Windows.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

Check the load on the system using the UNIX uptime or top commands. Also, check for processes using too much CPU time by using the top and ps -ef commands. Note that the issue may be a large number of instances of one or more processes, rather than a few processes each taking up a large amount of CPU time. Kill processes using excessive CPU time.

Run Queue Length (15 minute average)

Represents the average number of processes in memory and subject to be run in the last interval. This metric checks the run queue.

This metric is not available on Windows.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

Check the load on the system using the UNIX uptime or top commands. Also, check for processes using too much CPU time by using the top and ps -ef commands. Note that the issue may be a large number of instances of one or more processes, rather than a few processes each taking up a large amount of CPU time. Kill processes using excessive CPU time.

Swap Utilization (%)

For UNIX-based platforms, this metric represents the percentage of swapped memory in use for the last interval.

For Windows, this metric represents the percentage of page file instance used.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

For UNIX-based platforms, check the swap usage using the UNIX top command or the Solaris swap -l command. Additional swap can be added to an existing file system by creating a swap file and then adding the file to the system swap pool. (See documentation for your UNIX OS). If swap is mounted on /tmp, space can be freed by removing any junk files in /tmp. If it is not possible to add file system swap or free up enough space, additional swap will have to be added by adding a raw disk partition to the swap pool. See UNIX documentation for procedures.

For Windows, check the page file usage and add an additional page file if current limits are insufficient.

Total Disk I/O Per Second

Represents the rate of I/O (read and write) operations, calculated from all disks.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

Total Processes

Represents the total number of processes currently running on the system. This metric checks the number of processes running on the system.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the system is under heavy load. If the value is consistently high, consider reducing the load on the system by stopping the number of processes.

Total Swap, Kilobytes

Total amount of page file space available to be allocated by processes. Paging files are shared by all processes and the lack of space in paging files can prevent processes from allocating memory.

This metric is available only on Windows.

Data Source

Performance Data counters and Windows API GlobalMemoryStatusEx

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the system is doing a lot of swapping by moving data either to or from the disk. This typically will slow down the system because of the relatively slower access to the disk. The reason for this could be one or more of the following:

• There are many processes running on the system competing for a limited RAM and this results in more swapping. User can try to reduce the load by stopping some process

• A process occupying more memory than expected leading to a shortage of available memory

Typically these kinds of problems are solved by adding more RAM.

Total Users

Represents the total number of users currently logged into the system. This metric checks the number of users running on the system.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Data Source

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the system is under heavy load. If the value is consistently high, consider reducing the load on the system by restricting or removing active users from the system.

Used Swap, Kilobytes

Represents the size in kilobytes of the page file instance used.

This metric is available only on Windows.

Data Source

Performance Data counters and Windows API GlobalMemoryStatusEx.

User Action

An abnormally high value (determined on the basis of historical data) indicates that the system is doing a lot of swapping by moving data either to or from the disk. This typically will slow down the system because of the relatively slower access to the disk. The reason for this could be one or more of the following:

• There are many processes running on the system competing for a limited RAM and this results in more swapping. User can try to reduce the load by stopping some process

• A process occupying more memory than expected leading to a shortage of available memory

Typically these kinds of problems are solved by adding more RAM.

Log File Pattern Matched Content

Returns the actual content if the given file has been specifically registered for content uploading, else it will return the count of lines that matched the pattern specified.

The operator can list the names of files or directories to be never monitored in <EMDROOT>/sysman/config/lfm_efiles file. The operator can list the names of the files or directories whose contents can be uploaded into Oracle Management Repository in <EMDROOT>/sysman/config/lfm_ifiles file.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

Oracle provided perl program that scans files for the occurrence of user specified perl patterns.

User Action

None.

Log File Pattern Matched Line Count

Returns the number of lines matching the pattern specified in the given file. Setting warning or critical thresholds against this column for a specific {log file name, match pattern in perl, ignore pattern in perl} triggers the monitoring of specified criteria against the given log file.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

* Once an alert is triggered for this metric, it must be manually cleared.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each unique combination of "Log File Name", "Match Pattern in Perl", "Ignore Pattern in Perl", and "Time Stamp" objects.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any unique combination of "Log File Name", "Match Pattern in Perl", "Ignore Pattern in Perl", and "Time Stamp" objects, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each unique combination of "Log File Name", "Match Pattern in Perl", "Ignore Pattern in Perl", and "Time Stamp" objects, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

Oracle supplied perl program monitors the log files for user specified criteria.

User Action

None.

Bank Location

Represents the bank location name of the memory device, when applicable.

This metric is available only on Dell Poweredge Linux Systems.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

SNMP MIB object: memoryDeviceStatus (1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.1100.50.1.5)

User Action

None.

Location

Represents the location name of the memory device, for example, "DIMM A".

This metric is available only on Dell Poweredge Linux Systems.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

SNMP MIB object: memoryDeviceStatus (1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.1100.50.1.5)

User Action

None.

Memory Status

Represents the status of the memory device.

This metric is available only on Dell Poweredge Linux Systems.

The following table lists the possible values for this metric and their meaning.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected and compared against the default thresholds. The 'Consecutive Number of Occurrences Preceding Notification' column indicates the consecutive number of times the comparison against thresholds should hold TRUE before an alert is generated.

Multiple Thresholds

For this metric you can set different warning and critical threshold values for each unique combination of "Chassis" and "Index" objects.

If warning or critical threshold values are currently set for any unique combination of "Chassis" and "Index" objects, those thresholds can be viewed on the Metric Detail page for this metric.

To specify or change warning or critical threshold values for each unique combination of "Chassis" and "Index" objects, use the Edit Thresholds page.

Data Source

SNMP MIB object: memoryDeviceStatus (1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.1100.50.1.5)

User Action

None.

Size

Represents the size, in kilobytes, of the memory device.

This metric is available only on Dell Poweredge Linux Systems.

Metric Summary

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

SNMP MIB object: memoryDeviceSize (1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.1100.50.1.14)

User Action

None.

Type

Represents the type of the memory device.

This metric is available only on Dell Poweredge Linux Systems.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

SNMP MIB object: memoryDeviceSize (1.3.6.1.4.1.674.10892.1.1100.50.1.14)

User Action

None.

msgrcv() System Calls (per second)

Represents the number of msgrcv system calls made per second. The msgrcv system call reads a message from one queue to another user-defined queue.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

semop() System Calls (per second)

Represents the number of semop system calls made per second. The semop system call is used to perform semaphore operations on a set of semaphores.

Data Source

The data sources for this metric include the following:

User Action

None.

Bus Type

This is the bus type of the IO card.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

lspci

User Action

None.

Frequency

The clock frequency of the IO card.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

lspci

User Action

None.

Name

This represents the name of the IO card.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

lspci

User Action

None.

Revision

This represents the IO card revision.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

lspci

User Action

None.

Vendor Name

This represents the manufacturer name of IO card.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

lspci

User Action

None.

BroadCast Address

Broadcast address of the local area network.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Default Gateway

Default gateway configured for this host.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Description

A description of the Network Interface Card.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Is DHCP Enabled

Represents whether this Network Interface Card (NIC) is configured for dynamic or static ip addresses

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Flags

Network interface card's Flags

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Hostname Aliases

This represents the aliases for the host corresponding to this Network Interface Card.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

arp

User Action

None.

IP Address

IP address associated with this Network Interface Card. This is supposed to be an IPV4 address.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

IPV6 Addresses

This is comma-separated list of IPV6 addresses.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

MAC Address

Hardware address of the Network Interface Card.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

NetMask

This is subnet mask inet address.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Maximum Transfer Unit

Maximum packet size that to be sent it from this Network Interface Card. This is in bytes.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Name

Network interface card name.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

ifconfig

User Action

None.

Bond Name

Name of the bond.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Mode of the Bond

Mode of the bonds. This can be balance-alb.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Options of the Bond

Options/properties of the bond. This can be something like "miimon=100 max_bonds=4."

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Primary Slave

Primary slave of the bond. The Network Interface Card which is the primary slave of the bond.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Secondary Slaves

Comma separated list of secondary slaves.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Address Length (Bits)

This is the OS address length. This is either 32 bit or 64 bit.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Base Version

Base version of the OS

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Is DB Machine Member

When host is member Database Machine, this columns will have a value of 1.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Default OS Run Level

Default Run level of the OS running on the host. Whenever the OS is booted, it will be booted to this run level.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Distribution Version

This is only applicable for Linux. Represents OS distributed version

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Max Swap Space (MB)

This represents Maximum swap space available for the OS.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Name

Name of the OS

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/etc/enterprise-release for OEL

/etc/redhat-release for redhat

/etc/UnitedLinux-release

/etc/SuSE-release

User Action

None.

Platform ID

This is the platform id number

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Update Level

Latest update level of this OS

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

uname -a

User Action

None.

Vendor Name

This represents the OS vendor name.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/etc/enterprise-release for OEL

/etc/redhat-release for redhat

/etc/UnitedLinux-release

User Action

None.

Description

Description of the component

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/bin/rpm

User Action

None.

Installation Date

Installation date of the component.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/bin/rpm

User Action

None.

Name

Name of the OS component.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/bin/rpm

User Action

None.

Type

Type of OS components. This can be Patch, Bundle, Package.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/bin/rpm

User Action

None.

Version

Version of the component.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/bin/rpm

User Action

None.

Disk Space (GB)

File System capacity in GB.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/etc/mtab

User Action

None.

Local Drive

Applicable NT only.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/etc/mtab

User Action

None.

Mount Location

Mount location of the file system.

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/etc/mtab

User Action

None.

Mount Options

This metric contains details about the mount options. These could be similar to "rw,intr,largefiles,logging,xattr,onerror=panic."

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/etc/mtab

User Action

None.

Resource Name

This is the device path of host. This can be /dev/hd10opt, Local Disk (C:)

Metric Summary

The rest of the information in this section is only valid for this metric when it appears in either the Enterprise Manager Cloud Control or the Enterprise Manager Database Control (if applicable).

The following table shows how often the metric's value is collected.

Data Source

/etc/mtab

User Action