Managing Performance Thresholds › Edit Performance Thresholds › Edit Thresholds from the Administration Page

Edit Thresholds from the Administration Page

Edit performance thresholds to:

• Set common thresholds for all associated client networks. For example, you can tune the server metrics for an application across all client networks.

  In general, a server should treat all of its client requests the same way.

• Set common thresholds for all applications that communicate with a group of client networks. For example, you can tune the network metrics for all the applications that communicate with the client networks that belong to the Austin network type.

If you do not want the management console to include a metric when rating an application, server, or network, you can disable the metric. If you disable a metric, the management console rates an application, server, or network using the available metrics.

To prevent the management console from rating the performance of an application, disable all the Network, Server, and Combined metrics on the application.

Follow these steps:

1. Click the Administration page.
2. Click Policies, Performance Thresholds in the Show Me menu.
3. Scroll to the Performance Thresholds List, find the performance thresholds for the application you want and then click to edit. The changes you make apply to all client networks with the assigned network type.

   Edit Application Thresholds opens.

4. Click Change on the metric you want to edit.
5. Customize the metric thresholds for Minor and Major incidents:
   • Choose a method for measuring a threshold value and then specify a threshold value.
   • Specify the minimum number of observations, or times that the management console must calculate a metric during a 5-minute interval, under Minimum Observations. For example, the management console can calculate Server Connection Time once per TCP transaction, but the management console calculates NRTT each time a client/server pair exchanges a packet. If the management console does not calculate the metric the minimum number of times, the status of the metric is Unrated for the 5-minute interval.

   For information about setting threshold properties, click Help.

6. Click Apply.
7. Repeat these steps to edit the Minor and Major threshold values for additional metrics.
8. Click OK.

More information:

How Performance Metrics Work