"Boyce, Robert L" wrote:
> Greetings,
>
> I have a question for the forum. In the SNMP MIB Data Collection is
> there a way to change the Threshold from "greater than" to "less than"? In
> the GUI it seems to be hard wired as a " > ".
>
> The problem is that I am collecting percent memory free and I want to
> alarm when that value is less than 10%. I realize that I can create a MIB
> expression and subtract the percent memory free value from 100, and then
> alarm when that value is greater than 90, but then My data collection graphs
> will look screwy (or I will have to have two Data collections, one for
> percent free memory and one for alarming). Am I missing something here? I
> am not using MLM's and I do not want to have to do this in a ruleset. I am
> running NetView 5.1.1 on AIX 4.3.2.
1. Create the expression, and when you graph the collected data, call it
%Memory Used.
2. Or, have two collections for the data as you suggested.
3. Install an MLM and let it collect the data, you can do what you desire
there.
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