Managed Objects
A managed object is a system or component that an enterprise wants to monitor and control with Operations Sentinel. Operations Sentinel receives information about a managed object through event reports or some other means. You must manually enter the configuration data about each object using the Managed Objects node in Administration mode of Operations Sentinel Console for
Classes that do not allow dynamic creation of managed objects (such as all system and console classes).
Managed objects that will not be created dynamically.
Note: A managed object does not need to be defined for alerts to be reported against it. However, alerts for such an object would always appear under the Other Alerts icon, since there is no way to include an undefined object in any zone.
Managed Classes
Before you define a new managed object, you must decide the class to which it belongs. A class is a category of managed objects. All objects in the same class have the same properties. A managed object can belong to only one class, and that class cannot change for the life of the object.
Operations Sentinel provides three types of classes:
Base classes. A base class is a managed class from which another managed class is derived. The base classes are Arbitrary System, Component, MCP System, OS 2200 System, OS 2200 Console, Server, UNIX/Linux System, and Windows System.
Derived classes. A derived class is a managed class that extends an existing managed class by adding additional properties. For example, OS 2200 IP is a derived class from the Component base class.
Site-defined derived classes. An administrator can extend the managed classes supplied with Operations Sentinel by creating new managed classes from one of the existing base classes or derived classes.
Each class has
Properties. The properties provide defaults for every managed object of that class you define; however, you can specify other values when you define the individual managed objects.
User properties. In addition to the properties of the base class, derived classes can contain user-defined properties.
Threshold. A threshold is a user-specified limit for a parameter or attribute that is monitored in Operations Sentinel Console. Threshold can be upper limits, lower limits, true values, false values, or a combination of limits, depending on the parameter being monitored.
Security. An administrator can modify the default permissions that are used when managed objects of this class are created.
Managed Class Related Topics
Managed Object Related Topics