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Managed Object Creation

You control the creation of managed objects from the Process Monitor table using the object class, instance, and attribute values. By default, SystemEDGE creates a managed object for each unique class, instance, and attribute process monitor. If multiple process monitors contain the same value for these three properties, the agent groups them into a single managed object and derives an overall state for the object.

To illustrate the flexibility of how you can use this mechanism, consider the following scenarios:

• You define three process monitor entries with the same class, instance, and attribute values for monitoring the real memory usage of a process. The monitors define a warning severity for real memoy usage of greater than 85%, a major severity for real memory usage of greater than 90%, and a critical severity for real memory usage of greater than 95%. The agent combines these monitors into one managed object and maintains the worst current severity as the object state.
• You define three process monitor entries with the same class, instance, and attribute values for monitoring processes from different functional areas that are connected in your enterprise. For example, you can combine a basic operating system process monitor, an application process monitor, and a database process monitor, assigning a warning severity to each process monitor. In this scenario, the agent sends a warning state change trap only if all three process monitor thresholds are breached.
• You define a super aggregation of process monitor entries with the same value for object class and asterisk values for the object instance or attribute. This scenario groups large number of objects without specifically having to define an aggregation rule for each one. For example, you can aggregate all objects that monitor different attributes of the same process, so that all process monitors for that process propagate the worst current state to the top level process object.

  Note: You can also configure the agent to aggregate all objects at higher levels. For more information, see the chapter "Agent Configuration."

For syntax examples of these scenarios, see Process Monitoring Examples.

If you do not define object class, instance, and attribute values, the SystemEDGE assigns default values for these properties according to the following convention:

• Class: processEntry
• Instance: value of the pmonRegExpr attribute in the process monitor that defines the regular expression to determine the process to monitor
• Attribute: value of the pmonAttribute attribute in the process monitor that defines the process attribute to monitor

More Information

Object Status

Object Aggregation

Super Aggregation

How State Management and Aggregation Works