AIX Server: Disk write blocks Health Monitor

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

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

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

Disk write blocks is over the threshold.

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

Causes

There is a lot of blocks being written on this disk. It shows a high activity related to information being saved on this disk.

Resolutions

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

Additional

Monitors the number of blocks written to 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 write blocks Alert

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Source Code:

<AggregateMonitor ID="Jalasoft.Xian.SmartManagementPacks.AIXServers.WBlks.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="WBlks_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>