Threshold and Availability Profiles for a Nutanix Cluster Monitor

Once a Nutanix cluster is successfully added to your Site24x7 account, you can create a threshold and availability profile, and configure conditions for different metrics for the alarms engine to determine if a specific resource has to be declared critical or down. 

Read on to learn how to:

• Add a threshold and availability profile
• Edit a threshold and availability profile
• Delete a threshold and availability profile
• Associate a threshold profile with a Nutanix Cluster monitor

Add a threshold and availability profile

1. Log in to your Site24x7 account.
2. Click Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
3. Click Add Threshold and Availability on the Add Threshold Profile screen.
4. Specify the following details:
   • Monitor type: Select Nutanix Cluster monitor from the drop-down list.
   • Display name: Provide a label for identification purposes.
5. From the drop-down menu, choose the desired metrics for which thresholds need to be configured. Enter a value specific to the unit, and set the threshold conditions (<, <=, =, >, or >=) and the monitor state (to be notified as) for each metric. You'll receive alerts when these threshold conditions are violated.
6. For Nutanix Cluster monitors, you can configure thresholds for the following metrics:
   • General thresholds: Cluster CPU usage, cluster memory usage, content cache hit rate, disk/physical usage, cluster-wide read input/output operations per second (IOPS), and cluster-wide write IOPS.
   • Disk-I/O-specific thresholds: Overall data transferred per second from disk, read data transferred per second from disk, write data transferred per second from disk, I/O operations from disk, I/O read operations from disk, I/O write operations from disk, and I/O latency of disk.
   • Content-cache-specific thresholds: Number of hits on the content cache, number of lookups on the content cache, logical memory used to cache data without deduplication, physical memory used by the content cache to cache data, logical SSD memory used to cache data without deduplication, physical SSD memory used by the content cache to cache data, memory saved from content cache deduplication, and SSD usage saved from content cache deduplication. 
   • Storage-controller-specific thresholds: Overall data transferred from the storage controller, read data transferred from the storage controller, write data transferred from the storage controller, overall I/O operations from the storage controller, I/O read operations from the storage controller, I/O write operations from the storage controller, I/O latency of the storage controller, read latency of the storage controller, and write latency of the storage controller.
7. Click Save. The threshold and availability profile created for the Nutanix Cluster monitor will be automatically listed on the Threshold and Availability screen along with any profiles you've already created.

Edit a threshold and availability profile

1. Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
2. Click the profile that you'd like to edit.
3. Edit the necessary parameters in the Edit Threshold Profile window.
4. Click Save.

Delete a threshold and availability profile

1. Go to Admin > Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability.
2. Click the profile that you'd like to delete in the Threshold and Availability screen.
3. This will redirect you to the Edit Threshold Profile window.
4. Click Delete.

Associate a threshold profile with a Nutanix Cluster monitor

1. Go to Nutanix > Nutanix Cluster.
2. Click the hamburger icon next to the desired Cluster monitor, and click Edit.
3. In the Edit Nutanix Cluster window that opens, under Configuration Profiles > Threshold and Availability, choose a threshold profile from the drop-down menu. You can also add a new profile, and click Save.

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