Section SYSTEM SYSTEM parameters Section USERS USERS parameters

Section SYSTEM

Parameter	Description	Example Value	Default Value
Parameters For Which You MUST Specify a Value (No Default)
Admin_EMail:	Email address for program error messages	bill_border@abc.com
Parameters Which Have Tolerable Default Values
Count_Tables:	Whether ("Y") or not ("N") to count the Informix tables in each Informix instance. The process of counting table for use in the WWW "D" Report, only occurs on the first iteration of DBAmon. It can be very resource intensive, and the value of seeing the table count is of limited value.	N	Y
Debug:	Only specify this parameter if you are asked to do so by DBAmon support. If specified, additional debugging information is written to the Day log.	1
Default_BA_Arc:	The default Backup_Age_Arc value in hours. Applies to Oracle/UX.	2	24*30
Default_Min_CF:	DBAmon monitors (For Oracle/UX) the number of controlfiles. This parameter establishes the default threshold. If the number of controlfile for an instance drops below this number, then a WARNING event will occur.	2	1
Default_T_DB_Cache:	DBAmon monitors (For Oracle/UX) the DB cache read hit ratio. This parameter establishes the default thresholds. The first number is the threshold, below which, a WARNING event will occur. The seconds number specifies the threshold, below which, a PERF event will occur.	20/90	15/85
Default_T_NUSERPROC:	DBAmon monitors (For Oracle/UX on HP-UX) the current OS process count vs. the maxuprc Kernel value. This parameter specifies the warning and critical event thresholds (percentage of maxuprc).	20/90	80/99
Filecheck:	If specified, DBAmon will check the existence of this file for all UX servers. A Critical Event will occur if it is not found.	/var/opt/afile
Iterations:	Number of iterations to run or * for forever. When you run DBAmon in production (started by cron) mode, you will want to specify this as *.	10	*
ID1_Breakout:	Specifies whether DBAmon should create an additional summary of instances by grouped by their ID1: DBC value.	Y	N
ID2_Breakout:	Specifies whether DBAmon should create an additional summary of instances by grouped by their ID2: DBC value.	Y	N
Loc_Breakout:	Specifies whether DBAmon should create an additional summary of instances by grouped by their network location value.	Y	N
Iter_Min_Secs:	If specified, tells DBAmon that no single iteration should run for less than this number of seconds. If an iteration completes in less than the number of seconds specified here, DBAmon will sleep the difference between the the iteration duration and this number before starting the next iteration. For example, if this number is set to 600 (10 minutes) and an iteration completes in just 6 minutes, then DBAmon will sleep for 4 minutes before starting the next iteration. This feature prevents DBAmon from "beating up" a DB server. This parameter is similar to the Sleeptime: parameter, but is more sophisticated in the the sleep only occurs if the iteration ran quickly.	600
Make_Tickets:	Whether ("Y") or not ("N") to invoke dbamon_make_ticket.pl to create HelpDesk tickets. This will only work if you have created a "ticket" User Exit.	Y	N
Num_Tasks:	This parameter, if set > 1, will cause DBAmon to run in Multi-Task mode. Requires Use_Oracle: to be Y. If set to 1 (the default), DBAmon will run in Single-Task mode.	5	1
OpC_Messages:	Whether ("Y") or not ("N") to send ANY OpC (ITO) messages for DBAmon events.	Y	N
OpC_Trailer:	When an OpC message is issued, the text supplied here will be appended to the text of the message.	This is a test
ORACLE_SID:	If Use_Oracle: is Y, this will specify the ORACLE_SID of the db to use as a DBAmon repository. No default. Required if Use_Oracle: is Y.	MYDB
ORACLE_HOME:	If Use_Oracle: is Y, this will specify the ORACLE_HOME of the db to use as a DBAmon repository. No default. Required if Use_Oracle: is Y.	/opt/oracle/product/8.1.6
ORACLE_Password:	If Use_Oracle: is Y, this will specify the password of the DB user "dbamon". You must specify this before running dbamon_create_tables.pl during the installation. No default. Required if Use_Oracle: is Y.	mypassword
Paging:	Whether DBAmon should invoke Paging logic for Critical and User events.	N	Y
PN_Dir:	Directory where clpostXm lives on the DBAmon server.	/usr/local/bin/X11	/usr/local/bin/X11
Probe_Timeout:	If specified, any connect to a monitored server will be cancelled if it runs longer than the number of seconds that you specify here.	600	(Null)
Remsh_Sev:	Used to specify the severity of Remsh Error events. Code as C for Critical or W for Warning.	C	W
Remsh_Retries:	New in DBAmon 3.30A. This parameter controls how many times DBAmon will retry a failed connection. Every communication from the DBAmon Master uses the "remsh" UX service. If this parameter is set to > 0, then if a remsh connection fails for any reason (most probably due to network problems), then the connection will be retried Remsh_Retries: number of times after sleeping 30 seconds.	5	1
Save_Dir:	Directory (fully qualified) for saving Informix ONCONFIG and onstat -d output from every Informix instance. This will be useful in the events of a DB server crash. The directory that you specify must exist.	/opt/dbamon/dat/ifmx_save	/opt/dbamon/dat/config_save
Sleeptime:	Time to sleep between iterations	600	30
Use_Oracle:	(Y/N) Whether to use Oracle for your DBAmon data repository.	Y	N
Task_Cfg_File:	This optional parameter specifies the name of a file in /opt/dbamon/adm which contains Task Definitions for use in Multi-Tasking to tell which monitoring processes which DB servers to monitor. Requires Use_Oracle: to be Y and Num_Tasks: to be > 1. No Default. If this is not specified, then DBAmon will distribute all monitored Servers alphabetically among the Num_Tasks: number of tasks.	task_config_prod.txt
WWW_Check:	(Y/N) Whether to create the Check (lightbulb) URL on the Instance Summary.	Y	N
WWW_Magnify:	(Y/N) Whether to create the Magnify (magnifying glass) URL on the Instance Summary.	Y	N
WWW_Event_Isolate:	Specify here DBAmon Events that you want to isolate to seperate WWW pages. A URL to these events will appear at the bottom of the Short and Long Instance Summary pages. If you specify more than one msgid, separate then with commas.		DBA123,DBA456
WWW_Font:	Specify here the font that all dynamic WWW pages are to use. If the font name contains a space, specify a % instead of the space.	Trebuchet%MS
OBSOLETE Parameters - Please DO NOT USE
Use_MySQL:	Whether ("Y") or not ("N") to invoke logic to use a MYSQL database. If you want to use this feature, call me. The default is "N".	N
(Obsolete) HTML_Rpt_Path:	This is the fully qualfied UX path of the file where the HTML Disk Usage document will be written. Every iteration, DBAmon writes a new report which contains data for all systems.	/csitc/r3/dbamon/dbamon_rpt.html
(Obsolete) HTML_Log_Path:	This is the fully qualfied UX path of the file where the HTML Event Log document will be written. Every iteration, DBAmon writes a new HTML Event Log document which lists the current critical, warning and informational events for all systems.	/csitc/r3/dbamon/dbamon_log.html
(Obsolete) HTML_Sys_Path:	This is the fully qualfied UX path of the file where the HTML System Summary document will be written. Every iteration, DBAmon writes a new document which lists all systesm.	/csitc/r3/dbamon/dbamon_sys.html
(Obsolete) HTML_Events_Dir:	This is the fully qualfied UX path of the directory where the indivual event files for each system will be written.	/csitc/r3/dbamon/events_current
(Obsolete) HTTP_Log_Path:	The fully qualified HTTP pathname of the above HTML Event Log document. This is printed as part of the OpC messages and is inserted into the System Summary HTML page.	http://srvr/dbamon/dbamon_log.html
(Obsolete) HTTP_Rpt_Path:	The fully qualified HTTP pathname of the above HTML Disk Usage report HTML document. This is inserted into the System Summary HTML page.	http://srvr/dbamon_html/dbamon_rpt.html
(Obsolete) HTTP_Events_Dir:	The HTTP name for the HTTP_Events_Dir directory. Individual HTML docuements will have the format of this value followed by system name.html.	http://srvr/dbamon_html/events_current
(Obsolete) HTTP_Details_Dir:	The HTTP name for the HTTP_Details_Dir directory. This value depends on how you have configured your HTTP env to point to the DBAmon WWW documents. Also, there is not an HTML_Details_Dir parameter, it is always /opt/dbamon/htm/details or /opt/dbamon/htm/details_test.	/dbamon_html/details
(Obsolete) Images_Dir:	Relative Dir where these gif files are found: yellowball-89.gif redball-89.gif greenball-89.gif blueball-89.gif hpbackground.gif	/solutions/dba/images
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ID1_Breakout:	Causes DBAmon to create a section on the top of the Instance Summary which summarizes and creates separate URL's for each "ID1:" DBC value. Requires Use_Oracle: to be Y.	Y	N
Log_Path:	Pathname for Log Reports	/opt/dbamon/dat/reports/dbamon.log
Use_DBC_Firstchar:	In multi-task mode, causes DBAmon to group instances by the first character of the DBC file name, rather than by the first character of the server name. Specify Y or N (default).	Y
Auto_Detect_Aliases:	If this parameter is set to Y DBAmon will automatically detect and display all network alias names (from netstat -i) for all Oracle/UX instances. Specify Y or N (default).	Y
Report_EMail:	Email address to receive DBAmon Informix Version Report. Up to 8 addresses delimited by blank.	bill_border@abc.com
Run_SPFile_Check:	If Y, then a warning DBA399 event will occur for any instance which used SPFILEs.	Y

Section USERS

The format the an entry in the List of Users is:

Notification Method	Value	Example
EMail	EMail ID	bill_border@abc.com
Postnote	@hostname	@curley

Example List:

List #	List of Users Seperated By Blanks
1	dba123@mike
2	dba123@mike sap345@mike 7195990012@pager.gateway.net
3	dba123@mike bill_border@abc.com @curley