Configuring File and Directory Monitoring Criteria

Enterprise Manager monitors the files and directories for the operator specified criteria on hosts running various flavors of the UNIX operating system. Operator should configure the criteria for monitoring the desired files and directories.

Operator should specify the criteria for file and directory monitoring using the Monitoring Settings Page.

To configure the program resource utilization criteria, do the following:

  1. From the Targets tab, click either All Targets or Hosts.

  2. Either type the name of the desired host in the Search field or scroll down to the name of the host in the Name column.

  3. Click the name of the host.

  4. In the Related Links section, click Metric and Policy Settings.

  5. Search for one of the following lines in the table displayed for Metric Thresholds tab and click on the pencil icon to navigate to corresponding Edit Advanced Settings page.

  6. You can specify new criteria for monitoring by clicking Add on this page. Refer to Notes about Specifying Monitored Objects for details on configuring the criteria.

  7. You can edit or remove existing criteria by selecting the row from the Monitored Objects table and clicking Edit or Remove. Refer to Notes about Specifying Monitored Objects for details on configuring the criteria.

Notes about Specifying Monitored Object

File or Directory Name specifies the criteria to be monitored. Each row in the Monitored Object table specifies an unique criteria to be monitored.

File or Directory Name Column

File or Directory Name is the name of the file or directory being monitored from the host operating system. Specified value should correspond to the absolute path for the desired file or directory.

Either exact name or name with SQL wild cards (% and _) can be specified for File or Directory Name. SQL wild card matches 0 or more characters. SQL wild card _ matches exactly one character.

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