Physical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Transfer

Microsoft.Linux.SLES.9.PhysicalDisk.AverageDiskTransferTime.Monitor (UnitMonitor)

SUSE Linux Enterprise Server 9 Physical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Transfer Monitor

Knowledge Base article:

Summary

This monitor checks the Physical Disk Average Transfer Time. If you receive an alert from this monitor, action may be required in order to bring the system back to an operational state.

Physical Disk Average Transfer shows the time, in seconds, of the average disk transfer.

Causes

An unhealthy state indicates that the physical disk average disk transfer rate is currently high. A disk that is developing a bottleneck might cause the entire system to slow.

Circumstances that may cause this condition:

Resolutions

Element properties:

TargetMicrosoft.Linux.SLES.9.PhysicalDisk
Parent MonitorSystem.Health.PerformanceState
CategoryPerformanceHealth
EnabledTrue
Alert GenerateTrue
Alert SeverityError
Alert PriorityNormal
Alert Auto ResolveTrue
Monitor TypeMicrosoft.Unix.WSMan.Performance.Filtered.Average.Threshold.MonitorType
RemotableTrue
AccessibilityPublic
Alert Message
Average Disk Sec/Transfer is too high
The threshold for the Physical Disk\Avg. Disk Sec/Transfer performance counter has been exceeded. The value that exceeded the threshold is: {0} Sec/Transfer.
RunAsDefault

Source Code:

<UnitMonitor ID="Microsoft.Linux.SLES.9.PhysicalDisk.AverageDiskTransferTime.Monitor" Accessibility="Public" Target="Microsoft.Linux.SLES.9.PhysicalDisk" TypeID="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.WSMan.Performance.Filtered.Average.Threshold.MonitorType" Enabled="true" ParentMonitorID="SystemHealth!System.Health.PerformanceState">
<Category>PerformanceHealth</Category>
<AlertSettings AlertMessage="Microsoft.Linux.SLES.9.PhysicalDisk.AverageDiskTransferTime.AlertMessage">
<AlertOnState>Error</AlertOnState>
<AutoResolve>true</AutoResolve>
<AlertPriority>Normal</AlertPriority>
<AlertSeverity>Error</AlertSeverity>
<AlertParameters>
<AlertParameter1>$Data/Context/Value$</AlertParameter1>
</AlertParameters>
</AlertSettings>
<OperationalStates>
<OperationalState HealthState="Success" MonitorTypeStateID="UnderThreshold" ID="UnderThreshold"/>
<OperationalState HealthState="Error" MonitorTypeStateID="OverThreshold" ID="OverThreshold"/>
</OperationalStates>
<Configuration>
<TargetSystem>$Target/Host/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.Computer"]/NetworkName$</TargetSystem>
<Uri>http://schemas.microsoft.com/wbem/wscim/1/cim-schema/2/SCX_DiskDriveStatisticalInformation?__cimnamespace=root/scx</Uri>
<Filter/>
<SplitItems>true</SplitItems>
<Interval>300</Interval>
<ObjectName>Physical Disk</ObjectName>
<CounterName>Avg. Disk sec/Transfer</CounterName>
<InstanceName>$Target/Property[Type="Unix!Microsoft.Unix.LogicalDevice"]/DeviceID$</InstanceName>
<InstanceProperty>//*[local-name()="Name"]</InstanceProperty>
<Value>$Data///*[local-name()="AverageTransferTime"]$</Value>
<Threshold>0.5</Threshold>
<NumSamples>5</NumSamples>
</Configuration>
</UnitMonitor>