Raising a Console Alarm (ALARM) [CP-AMS]

The console alarm raised by this action is sent to each instance of OS 2200 Console View connected to the console and sends an alert to the Operations Sentinel server. The alarm is identified by the alarm‑id specified in the action. The appearance and sound of the alarm in each instance of OS 2200 Console View is controlled by the alarm configuration defined for that instance of OS 2200 Console View.

The ALARM action also sends an alert event report to Operations Sentinel with the attribute-value pairs listed in Table 4–9. Contrast with alert event report. See 4.7.2.

Table 13. Attribute-Value Pairs

Attribute

Value

ALERTID

Alert identifier specified as the ALARM action text

ALERTQUAL

Group name and pattern number of the matching pattern

APPL

Console name as defined using SCMS

APPLQUAL

Name of the active database

CLASS

2200_host

INSTANCE

Partition name as defined using SCMS

SEV

major

TEXT

Console message text that matched the pattern

TYPE

AL


See 4.2 for formatting information.

The action-text is the alarm id, which is also used as the alert id in the alert event report sent to Operations Sentinel. The alarm id must be an integer with a value between 0 and 18, or the value 33.

Example

This example raises an alarm in OS 2200 Console View and sends the following alert event report to Operations Sentinel when the console message “This is a console message” is matched. The database name is “mydb”, the partition name is “PART1” and the console name is “CONS01”. 

DEFINE "Group"1

  MESSAGE "This is a console message"
        .
        .
        .
		ACTION ALL ALARM"0"
END

The ALARM action generates the following alert event report.

"TYPE=AL | CLASS=2200_host | INSTANCE=PART1 |
   SEV=major | APPL=CONS01 |
   APPLQUAL=mydb | ALERTID=0 | ALERTQUAL = GROUP1 |
   TEXT=This is a console message"