AIX Server: Disk read blocks Health Monitor

Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.AIXServers.RBlks.1.1 (AggregateMonitor)

This monitor catches Xian events that notifies when the Disk read blocks if has changed its state.

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Disk read blocks is over the threshold.

The number of blocks read from the disk is above the maximum threshold configured in Xian Network Manager 2012.

Causes

There is a lot of blocks being read from this disk. It shows a high activity related to information being read from this disk.

Resolutions

Verify if this is an expected behavior; If don’t, verify which processes or applications are reading the information from the disk and stop them. if necessary upgrade the disk to increase performace.

Additional

Monitors the number of blocks read from the disk.

Element properties:

Target

Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.AIX.JsXAIXDiskElement

Parent Monitor

System.Health.PerformanceState

Algorithm

WorstOf

Category

StateCollection

Enabled

True

Alert Generate

True

Alert Severity

MatchMonitorHealth

Alert Priority

Low

Alert Auto Resolve

True

Remotable

True

Accessibility

Public

Alert Message

Disk read blocks Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.AIXServers.RBlks.1.1" Accessibility="Public" Enabled="true" Target="ThirdParty_AIX!Jalasoft.Xian.Common.Elements.ThirdParty.AIX.JsXAIXDiskElement" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState" Remotable="true" Priority="Normal">

  <Category>StateCollection</Category>

  <AlertSettings AlertMessage="RBlks_AlertMessage">

    <AlertOnState>Warning</AlertOnState>

    <AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>

    <AlertPriority>Low</AlertPriority>

    <AlertSeverity>MatchMonitorHealth</AlertSeverity>

    <AlertParameters>

      <AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/Params/Param[3]$</AlertParameter1>

    </AlertParameters>

  </AlertSettings>

  <Algorithm>WorstOf</Algorithm>

</AggregateMonitor>