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Duration Threshold

ZenPacks.zenoss.DurationThreshold

This ZenPack adds the DurationThreshold threshold, which will apply the threshold comparison value against specified datapoints over a specific time range, and send an event when a certain percentage of the values violate the threshold. This can be used to create an event when a condition appears and clears over a particular time range.

A new threshold, DurationThreshold, that allows the following to be specified.

  • Time period of how far back the values should be evaluated.
  • A percentage number that allows for the threshold to be violated a number of times before causing an exception.

Note that NaN values are ignored, and so are empty RRD files in Zenoss 4.x.x.

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Releases

Version 2.0.5 Download

  • Released: 2018-04-06
  • Compatible with Zenoss 4.2.X - 6.1.X

Version 2.0.4 Download

  • Released: 2017-05-01
  • Compatible with Zenoss 4.2.X - 5.2.X

Usage

Follow these steps to monitor the values of a datapoint collected over a period of time.

  1. Navigate to device Configuration Properties
  2. Navigate to the desired Monitoring Template.
  3. In the right-hand pane, click on the ''+'' button to add a threshold.
  4. Select the ''DurationThreshold'' option from the ''Type'' field, type in a name for the threshold and then click on the ''Add'' button.
  5. Click on the newly added threshold.
  6. Enter information into the dialog box about the threshold.
    • Datapoints: select the datapoints to which this threshold should apply.
    • Severity: choose the appropriate severity.
    • Enabled: should this threshold be used or not?
    • Minimum Value: create an event if values fall below this value
    • Maximum Value: create an event if values fall above this value
    • Event Class: What event class to which events will be associated.
    • Escalate Count: after this number of threshold events created, increase the severity by one (eg Error > Critical). The severity does not increase further after the initial escalation.
    • Time period: provide a time period using time operators like month, weeks, day, hours, minutes, seconds, or just the number of seconds. An example: 1 hour 5 minutes 10 seconds
    • Percentage of violations to trigger an event: a number from 0 (any violation triggers an event) to 100 (all values must violate the threshold)
  7. Click on the ``Save`` button to save the changes.

Alternatively Custom Properties can be defined and used for time period and percentage of violations. Consult the Custom Properties section of Administrator Guide for details.

Caveats

The follow caveats apply to this ZenPack.

Zenoss 5.0.x Caveats

The DurationThreshold requires access to the Zenoss CentralQuery service when used with Zenoss versions 5 or later. In Zenoss 5.0.x only (not Zenoss 5.1.x or later) the collector services do not have access to CentralQuery by default.

Follow these steps to allow Zenoss 5.0.x to allow DurationThreshold to work. These steps are not necessary on Zenoss versions 5.1 or later.

The following steps use the zencommand collector service as an example. You would need to edit every collector service that might need to evaluate a DurationThreshold.

  1. Log into the Zenoss master host.

  2. sudo serviced service edit zencommand

  3. Search the word "Endpoints". Endpoints is an array of objects. Add the following object to Endpoints:

    {
    "Name": "zproxy",
    "Purpose": "import",
    "Protocol": "tcp",
    "PortNumber": 8080,
    "PortTemplate": "",
    "VirtualAddress": "",
    "Application": "zproxy",
    "ApplicationTemplate": "zproxy",
    "AddressConfig": {
        "Port": 0,
        "Protocol": ""
    },
    "VHosts": null,
    "AddressAssignment": {
        "ID": "",
        "AssignmentType": "",
        "HostID": "",
        "PoolID": "",
        "IPAddr": "",
        "Port": 0,
        "ServiceID": "",
        "EndpointName": ""
    }
}

  4. Save the file.

  5. Enter the following command.

    sudo serviced service restart zencommand

  6. Repeat above steps for all Zenoss collector hosts.

Changes

2.0.5

  • Add component_guid to Duration Threshold events. (ZPS-1940)
  • Fix memory leaks. (ZPS-1966)
  • Tested with Zenoss Resource Manager 4.2.5 RPS 743, 5.3.3, and 6.1.2

2.0.4

  • Encode self.TimePeriod in checkRaw() into an ascii string. (ZPS-1420)

2.0.3

  • Restore event.current field to be current value of datapoint. (ZPS-1223)
  • Clear misconfiguration events when configuration is fixed. (ZPS-675)

2.0.2

  • Fix error when using multiple duration thresholds on same datapoint. (ZPS-1133)
  • Support new contextMetric capability in Zenoss 5.2.3. (ZEN-27018)

2.0.1

  • Prevent excessive authorization calls slowing Zenoss UI. (ZPS-548)
  • Evaluate thresholds in real time instead of one cycle delayed.
  • Fix event summaries to no longer refer to "High Queue Latency". (ZPS-671)
  • Support multiple datapoints in the same duration threshold.

2.0.0

  • Allow Custom Properties for time period and violation threshold and their use in duration threshold UI.
  • Re-format event messages.
  • Generate event if neither maximum threshold nor minimum threshold is defined.
  • Zenoss 5.x.x compatibility.