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State Management of Self Monitors

The SystemEDGE state management model maintains a state value for all entries in the Self Monitor table and lets you define managed objects for deriving an overall object state. The state management model provides the following features for entries in the Self Monitor table:

• The ability to define a severity for each self monitor entry that the agent uses to maintain a state value for each entry. The severities translate to CIM-compliant states.
• The ability to group one or more monitored resources into one or more managed objects through a tri-level naming scheme using object class, instance, and attribute values. This mechanism is flexible so that you can dynamically group resources from different functional areas.
• The ability to create a hierarchy of super managed objects, where the state of specific objects propagates to objects on higher levels of the hierarchy
• Notification through state change traps when the overall state of a managed object changes

The state management model is integrated into the CA Server Automation object model. Each managed object in the AOM database possesses a CIM-compliant state, and SystemEDGE managed objects and states are reflected in CA Server Automation though the SystemEDGE Platform Management Module. Managing SystemEDGE through CA Server Automation lets you visualize managed object state information in the CA Server Automation user interface and see state change traps through the CA Server Automation Event view.

For more information about visualizing SystemEDGE managed objects in CA Server Automation, see the CA Server Automation documentation.

Further information about configuring self monitors to take advantage of the state management model, including attribute values and syntax examples, is available throughout the rest of this chapter.