QUERY MONITORSETTINGS (Query the configuration settings for monitoring alerts and server status)

Use this command to display information about alert monitoring and server status settings.

Privilege class

Any administrator can issue this command.

Syntax

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Display monitoring settings

Display details about the monitoring settings. See Field descriptions for more details.
query monitorsettings
Example output:
     
                                Monitor Status: On
             Status Refresh Interval (Minutes): 5
                      Status Retention (Hours): 48
                        Monitor Message Alerts: On
               Alert Update Interval (Minutes): 10
                                Alert to Email: On
          Send Alert Summary to Administrators: On
                      Alert from Email Address: DJADMIN@MYDOMAIN.COM
                               Alert SMTP Host: DJHOST.MYDOMAIN.COM
                               Alert SMTP Port: 25
               Alert Active Duration (Minutes): 480
             Alert Inactive Duration (Minutes): 480
               Alert Closed Duration (Minutes): 60
                              Monitoring Admin: ADMIN
                               Monitored Group: MONGROUP
                             Monitored Servers: SERVER2
             At-Risk Interval for Applications: 24
    Skipped files as At-Risk for Applications?: Yes
         At-Risk Interval for Virtual Machines: 24
Skipped files as At-Risk for Virtual Machines?: Yes
                  At-Risk Interval for Systems: 24
         Skipped files as At-Risk for Systems?: Yes

Field descriptions

Monitor status
Specifies whether alert monitoring on the server is enabled or disabled.
Status refresh interval (minutes)
Specifies the number of minutes between intervals that the monitoring server gathers event data.
Status retention (hours)
Specifies the number of hours that status monitoring indicators are retained.
Monitor message alerts
Specifies whether alerts are sent to administrators by email.
Alert update interval (minutes)
Specifies the length of time, in minutes, that the alert monitor waits before the alert is updated and pruned on the server.
Alert to email
Specifies whether alerts are sent to administrators by email.
Send alert summary to administrators
Specifies the administrators that receive a summary of existing alerts on the server in an email.
Alert from email address
Specifies the email address of the sender.
Alert SMTP host
Specifies the Simple Mail Transfer Protocol (SMTP) host mail server that is used to send alerts by email.
Alert SMTP port
Specifies the SMTP mail server port that is used to send alerts by email.
Alert active duration (minutes)
Specifies how long, in minutes, an alert remains active.
Alert inactive duration (minutes)
Specifies how long, in minutes, an alert remains inactive.
Alert closed duration (minutes)
Specifies how long, in minutes, an alert remains closed before it is deleted from the server.
Monitoring admin
Specifies the name of the monitoring administrator that is used to connect to the servers in the monitored group.
Monitored group
Specifies the name of the monitored server group.
Monitored servers
Specifies the names of the servers in the monitored server group. The monitor settings might be different on each monitored server. If so, issue the query command for each server to display the monitoring settings.
At-risk interval for applications
Specifies how long, in hours, an applications client can log no activity before it is considered at-risk.
Skipped files as at risk for applications
Specifies that the server considers skipped files, by the client as a failure, and marks the client at-risk.
At-risk interval for virtual machines
Specifies how long, in hours, a virtual client can log no activity before it is considered at-risk.
Skipped files as at risk for virtual machines
Specifies that the server considers skipped files, by the client as a failure and marks the client at-risk.
At-risk interval for systems
Specifies how long, in hours, a systems client can log no activity before it is considered at-risk.
Skipped files as at risk for systems
Specifies that the server considers skipped files, by the client as a failure, and marks the client at-risk.

Related commands

Table 1. Commands related to QUERY MONITORSETTINGS
Command Description
DEFINE ALERTTRIGGER (Define an alert trigger) Associates specified messages to an alert trigger.
DELETE ALERTTRIGGER (Remove a message from an alert trigger) Removes a message number that can trigger an alert.
DELETE GRPMEMBER (Delete a server from a server group) Deletes a server from a server group.
DELETE SERVER (Delete a server definition) Deletes the definition of a server.
QUERY ALERTSTATUS (Query the status of an alert) Displays information about alerts that have been issued on the server.
QUERY ALERTTRIGGER (Query the list of defined alert triggers) Displays message numbers that trigger an alert.
SET ALERTMONITOR (Set the alert monitor to on or off) Specifies whether alert monitoring is set to on or off.
SET STATUSATRISKINTERVAL (Specifies whether to enable client at-risk activity interval evaluation) Specifies whether to enable client at-risk activity interval evaluation
SET STATUSMONITOR (Specifies whether to enable status monitoring) Specifies whether to enable status monitoring.
SET STATUSSKIPASFAILURE (Specifies whether to use client at-risk skipped files as failure evaluation) Specifies whether to use client at-risk skipped files as failure evaluation
UPDATE ALERTTRIGGER (Update a defined alert trigger) Updates the attributes of one or more alert triggers.
UPDATE ALERTSTATUS (Update the status of an alert) Updates the status of a reported alert.