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CICS Alerts

All metrics are reported on every polling interval unless the alert has been acknowledged. In which case the metrics are absent and go gray. CICS Alerts shows partially blank rows when the time range other than current is selected. The feature does not support strings in historical mode.

Only the alerts that are unacknowledged appear in the Workstation Investigator tree. Two metrics appear under the CICS Regions folder, which give total counts of these unacknowledged alerts over all CICS Regions. If you want alerting on the CA SYSVIEW CICS alert activity, use these metrics to generate the APM alerts through the management module editor.

Unacknowledged Problem Count

The current number of CICS alerts that have a status of problem.

Unacknowledged Alert Count

The current number of unacknowledged CICS alerts.

Unacknowledged Warning Count

The current number of CICS alerts that have a status of warning.

The metrics for each CICS alert appear under the folder structure: CICS Regions|<Region>|Alerts|<Name> <Arg1> <Arg 2> <Task>.

Alert Status

The current alert threshold status. This value can be NONE, NORMAL, HIGH, WARNING, or PROBLEM.

Alert Status Value

The current alert threshold status as a numeric value. This value can be 0=NONE, 1=NORMAL, 2=HIGH, 3=WARNING, or 4=PROBLEM.

Description

A description of the alert.

Job Name

The CICS Region job name of the owning resource.

Name

The name of the alert. In CA SYSVIEW, it is the variable name for the data collection element of the alert. This metric is the prefix of the alert folder name.

Priority

The priority of the alert from 0 through 999 with 999 having the highest priority.

Resource Argument 1/Resource Argument 2

The first/second resource argument. In CA SYSVIEW, it is the first/second resource argument to qualify the collection element of the alert. This metric does not appear if it has no value. This value becomes the second and third underscore separated segments of the alert folder name when they exist.

Rule Type

The exception rule type. Possible values are:

• UPPER indicates the upper limit threshold.
• LOWER indicates the lower limit threshold.
• CHANGE indicates a change in the value threshold.
• STATE indicates a state exception.

Subgroup

The subgroup classification for the alert.

Task

The task number of the task that is being monitored dynamically. This metric does not appear if it has no value. This value becomes the fourth pound sign (#) separated portion of the alert folder name when it exists.

Value

The value last used during threshold processing. If the resource does not currently have an associated threshold definition, the value is the last value the data collector collects.