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Agent Event Threshold Settings
Description
The EAM can automatically create alarms that are triggered based on user defined thresholds for various metrics, as well as failed tasks or inactivity. It allows for more precise control over the network of Ignition Gateways.
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Transcript
(open in window)[00:00] In the Enterprise Administration module, there are some built-in alarms that can help you manage your EAM system and can notify you if there are any problems. While they come pre-configured, you can change some things about them if you would like. To do this, we're going to go to our Configure section, and scroll down to the bottom, and find the Enterprise Administration section, and go to the Event Thresholds page. Once here, you'll see we have quite a few options. First section here is the Alarm Evaluation section. These first three properties allow you to enable or disable the three types of built-in alarms. The first type are activity alarms, which will go into an alarm state when an agent is no longer responding to the controller gateway. The second type are metric alarms, which will go into an alarm state when certain metrics thresholds are reached on the agent gateway. And lastly, there are task alarms, which will go into an alarm state whenever any of the agent tasks fails. We can then set the priority of the alarms of the different warnings and errors, and finally, we can set an active or acknowledge pipeline for these types of alarms. It's important to note that there is no cleared pipeline because these alarms will automatically clear themselves once they become active. If we scroll down a little further, you'll see an Activity Monitor section. Here you can decide how long the inactive duration needs to be before it sends a warning alarm and how long it needs to be before it sends an error alarm. There's one last thing you can customize if you click the Show advanced properties check box. You can see it brings up the System Metric Thresholds section. Here you can see the warning and error thresholds for different metrics on the agent gateway, such as memory usage and CPU usage. You can customize these to fit your needs. These alarms are just another tool that allow you to monitor all of your agent gateways from your central controller gateway.