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Rule Status - Field Help

Configuration Settings

If applicable, edit any of the values on the Rule Status panel and click Update Configuration.

Metric Name (Only valid for Metric all and Metric avg rules)
Name of the metric this rule is to consider. The metric name must be configured on the site name where the rule has been set in order to be valid. The default is cpuload.

Begin range
The lower value in the range used to determine whether or not the rule is true. The kind of value and its default depends on the type of rule:
  • ip address - the address of the client as either a symbolic name or in dotted-decimal format. The default value is 0.0.0.0.
  • time of day - an integer based on the time of day. The default is 0.
  • metric all - the minimum value expected in the server set. The default is 0.
  • metric avg - the minimum average value expected for all the servers in the server set. The default is 0.

End range
The higher value in the range used to determine whether or not the rule is true. The kind of value and its default depends on the type of rule:
  • ip address - the address of the client as either a symbolic name or in dotted-decimal format. The default value is 255.255.255.255.
  • time of day - an integer based on the time of day. The default value is 24, representing midnight.
  • metric all - the maximum value expected for all the servers in the server set. The default is 100.
  • metric avg - the maximum average value expected for all the servers in the server set. The default is 100.

Priority (optional)
An integer representing the order in which rules are reviewed. If no priority is given to the first rule you set, by default it will be given a priority value of 1 and evaluated first. The next rule will then be given a priority value of 11 and evaluated second, (last priority value + 10, in this case 1 + 10), third rule = 21, fourth rule = 31, and so forth. The rules are evaluated in numerical order, lower numbers taking precedence over higher ones.



Current Statistics

Name
The name you choose for the rule. This name can contain any alphanumeric character, underscore, hyphen, or period. It may be from 1 to 20 characters and cannot contain any blanks.

Rule type
The type of the rule. Possible types are:
  • IP address - based on the client IP address.
  • Time of day - based on the time of day.
  • Metric all - based on the current metric value for all the servers in the server set.
  • Metric avg - based on the average of the current metric values for all the servers in the server set.
  • Always true - will always be true. (Think of it as an else statement in programming logic.)

Times fired
The number of times this rule has fired since it was added.



Lists

List of Servers
Shows the addresses of servers currently associated with the rule.

To remove a server, highlight the server in the list and click remove.