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Solaris Management Pack Guide for System Center 2012 - Operations ManagerMicrosoft Corporation

Published: April, 2012

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ContentsSolaris Management Pack Guide...................................................................................................4

Management Pack Purpose........................................................................................................5Monitoring Scenarios...............................................................................................................5How Health Rolls Up................................................................................................................6

Configuring the Solaris Management Pack.................................................................................6Appendix: Management Pack Contents......................................................................................8Solaris 9...................................................................................................................................... 8Solaris 10.................................................................................................................................. 22Solaris 11................................................................................................................................... 36

Solaris Management Pack GuideThe Solaris Management Pack helps you manage your Solaris computers as part of your System Center 2012 - Operations Manager infrastructure.

The Solaris Management Pack alerts you to problems with components such as agents and services so you can continuously monitor the servers and clients on which your business depends.

This guide was written based on the 7.3.2086.0 version of the Solaris Management Pack.

Guide History

Release Date Changes

April 2012 Original release of this guide

Supported ConfigurationsIn general, the supported configurations are outlined in Supported Configurations for System Center 2012 – Operations Manager (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=223642).

Supported Versions of Solaris

Management Pack File x86 versions later than 120012-14

SPARC

Microsoft.Solaris.9.mp Not supported Yes

Microsoft.Solaris.10.mp Yes Yes

Microsoft.Solaris.11.mp Yes Yes

PrerequisitesAgent prerequisites for Solaris computers can be found in: Supported UNIX and Linux OperatingSystem Versions (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=244214)

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http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=223642

http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=223642

Files in this Management PackThe following table describes the files that are included in this management pack:

File name Display name Description

Microsoft.Solaris.Library Solaris Operating System Library

Solaris Core Library

Microsoft.Solaris.9.mp Solaris 9 Operating System Support for Solaris 9 (SPARC)

Microsoft.Solaris.10.mp Solaris 10 Operating System Support for Solaris 10 (SPARC) and x86 versions later than 120012-14

Microsoft.Solaris.11.mp Solaris 11 Operating System Support for Solaris 11 (SPARC) and x86 versions

Management Pack PurposeThe Solaris Management Pack provides both proactive and reactive monitoring of Solaris 9, Solaris 10, and Solaris 11 operating systems. It monitors Solaris components such as processes, resources, and server agents.

The monitoring provided by this management pack includes availability and configuration monitoring, performance data collection, and default thresholds. You can integrate the monitoring of Solaris components into your service-oriented monitoring scenarios.

In addition to health monitoring capabilities, this management pack includes reports, diagnostics, tasks, and views that enable near real-time diagnosis and resolution of detected issues.

In this section:

Monitoring Scenarios How Health Rolls Up

For details on the discoveries, rules, monitors, views, and reports contained in this management pack, see Appendix: Management Pack Contents.

Monitoring Scenarios

Monitoring scenario Description Associated rules and monitors

Logical Disk Health Availability and performance monitoring for Logical Disk (File System) instances

See Appendix: ManagementPack Contents

Network Adapter Health Availability and performance monitoring for Network Adapter


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Monitoring scenario Description Associated rules and monitors

instances

Operating System Health Availability and performance monitoring for Solaris Operating System instances


Physical Disk Health Availability and performance monitoring for Physical Disk instances


Processor Health Availability and performance monitoring for Processor instances


How Health Rolls UpThe following diagram shows how the health states of objects roll up in this management pack.

Configuring the Solaris Management PackThis section provides guidance on configuring and tuning this management pack.

Best Practice: Create a Management Pack for Customizations Security Configuration Tuning Performance Threshold Monitors

Best Practice: Create a Management Pack for CustomizationsBy default, Operations Manager saves all customizations such as overrides to the Default Management Pack. As a best practice, you should instead create a separate management pack for each sealed management pack you want to customize.

When you create a management pack for the purpose of storing customized settings for a sealed management pack, it is helpful to base the name of the new management pack on the name of the management pack that it is customizing, such as “Solaris Customizations”.

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Creating a new management pack for storing customizations of each sealed management pack makes it easier to export the customizations from a test environment to a production environment. It also makes it easier to delete a management pack, because you must delete any dependencies before you can delete a management pack. If customizations for all management packs are saved in the Default Management Pack and you need to delete a single management pack, you must first delete the Default Management Pack, which also deletes customizations to other management packs.

Security Configuration Run As credentials are used for all rules and monitors in the Solaris Management Pack. More information on required privileges and configuration of Run As credentials can be found in: Accessing UNIX and Linux Computers in Operations Manager (http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkID=223881)

Run As Profile Name Associated Rules and Monitors

UNIX/Linux Action Account All rules and monitors other than those specified with the UNIX/Linux Privileged Account

UNIX/Linux Privileged Account All syslog alerting rules

Tuning Performance Threshold MonitorsThe following table lists performance threshold monitors that have default thresholds that might require additional tuning to suit your environment. Evaluate these monitors to determine whether the default thresholds are appropriate for your environment. If a default threshold is not appropriate for your environment, you should obtain a baseline for the relevant performance counters, and then adjust the thresholds by applying an override to them.

Monitor Name Default Threshold Default Repeat Count

Logical Disk Free Space Critical:5%,1000MBWarning:10%, 2000MB

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Logical Disk % Free Space 5 1

Logical Disk % Free Inodes 5 1

Logical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Transfer .05 5

OperatingSystem Total Percent Processor Time 95 3

OperatingSystem Available MBytes 2.5 3

OperatingSystem Available MBytes Swap 2.5 3

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Monitor Name Default Threshold Default Repeat Count

Physical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Transfer .05 5

Processor Percent Processor Time 95 3

Appendix: Management Pack Contents

Solaris 9

Solaris 10

Solaris 11

Solaris 9The Solaris 9 Management Pack discovers the object types described in the following sections. Not all of the objects are automatically discovered. Use overrides to discover those objects that are not discovered automatically.

Solaris 9 Computer

Solaris 9 Logical Disk

Solaris 9 Network Adapter

Solaris 9 Operating System

Solaris 9 Physical Disk

Solaris 9 Processor

Solaris 9 ComputerDiscovery Information

Interval Enabled When to Enable

14400 True Not applicable

Related Rules

Rule Alert Notes Enabled When to Enable

SU Command Success Alert Rule

True

Alert priority: Low

Alert severity:

The path to the log file specified in syslog configuration must

False Enable this rule (and provide the LogFile path) to alert on related syslog events.

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Information be provided as an override (LogFile) when enabling this rule.

Root Password SSH Authentication alert rule

True

Alert priority: Medium

Alert severity: Information

The path to the log file specified in syslog configuration must be provided as an override (LogFile) when enabling this rule.


SSH Failure Alert Rule

True


Alert severity: Critical



Syslog Kernel Critical Alert Rule

True





Syslog Auth Critical Alert Rule

True





Sysid Config Alert Rule

True


The path to the log file specified in syslog

False Enable this rule (and provide the LogFile path) to alert on related syslog

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Alert severity: Critical configuration must be provided as an override (LogFile) when enabling this rule.

events.

Related Views

View Description Rules and Monitors that Populate the View

Solaris Server State State view for Solaris Computer instances

Discover Solaris 9 Computer

Solaris Computers Diagram Diagram view for Solaris Computer instances


Solaris 9 Logical DiskDiscovery Information



Related Monitors

Monitor Interval Alert Reset Behavior

Enabled When to Enable

Logical Disk Health

300 s True



Automatic True Not applicable

Logical Disk Free Space

300 s True


Alert severity: Warning/Critical

Automatic False Enable this monitor for three state free space monitoring by percentage and Megabytes free. Disable the Logical Disk % Free Space monitor when

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enabling this monitor.

Logical Disk % Free Space

300 s True




Logical Disk % Free Inodes

300 s True




Logical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Transfer

300 s True




Related Rules


% Free Inodes (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

% Used Inodes (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Free Megabytes (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Used Megabytes (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

% Free Space (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

% Used Space (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Logical Disk Bytes/sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Disk Read Bytes/sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Disk Write Bytes/sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Disk Transfers/sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

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Related Views


Logical Disk Health Dashboard view that shows state and alerts for Solaris Logical Disk instances

Discover Solaris 9 Logical Disks

Logical Disk Health Logical Disk Free Space Logical Disk % Free Space Logical Disk % Free

Inodes Logical Disk Avg. Disk

sec/Transfer

Logical Disk State State view for Solaris Logical Disk instances


Logical Disk Capacity Dashboard

Dashboard view that shows capacity metrics for Solaris Logical Disk instances

% Free Inodes (Solaris 9)

% Used Inodes (Solaris 9)

Free Megabytes (Solaris 9)

% Free Space (Solaris 9)

Logical Disk\Disk Bytes/sec Performance

Performance view that shows Disk Bytes/sec values for Solaris Logical Disk instances

Logical Disk Bytes/sec (Solaris 9)

Related Reports

Report Description Class Selection Criteria

Logical Disk (File System) Capacity Analysis

Capacity Analysis report (Hourly aggregation)

Metrics:

Percent Used Inodes

Percent Used Space


Logical Disk (File System) Capacity History

Capacity History report (“Monthly by Days” aggregation)

Metrics:

Percent Used Inodes

Percent Used Space


Logical Disk (File System) Performance Analysis report Solaris 9 Logical Disk

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Performance Analysis (Hourly aggregation)

Metrics:

Disk Bytes/sec

Disk Read Bytes/sec

Disk Write Bytes/sec

Disk Reads/sec

Disk Writes/sec

Transfer/sec

Logical Disk (File System) Performance History

Performance History report (“Monthly by Days” aggregation)

Metrics:

Disk Bytes/sec

Disk Read Bytes/sec


Disk Reads/sec

Disk Writes/sec

Transfer/sec


Operating System Storage Configuration

Configuration report

Properties:

Device Name

File System

Size (Bytes)


Solaris 9 Network AdapterDiscovery Information



Related Monitors



Network 300 s True Automatic True Not applicable

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Adapter Health



Related Rules


Byte Received/Sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Byte Sent/Sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Bytes Total/Sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Related Views


Network Adapter State State view for Solaris Network Adapter Instances

Discover Solaris 9 Network Adapters

Network Adapter Health Dashboard view that shows state and alerts for Solaris Network Adapter instances


Network Adapter Health

Network Adapter Performance

Dashboard view that shows performance metrics for Solaris Network Adapter instances

Network Adapter\Bytes Received/Sec Performance

Network Adapter\Bytes Sent/Sec Performance

Network Adapter\Bytes Total/Sec Performance

Related Reports


Network Adapter Performance Analysis

Performance Analysis report (Hourly aggregation)

Metrics:

Bytes Received/Sec


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Bytes Sent/Sec

Bytes Total/Sec

Network Adapter Performance History


Metrics:

Bytes Received/Sec

Bytes Sent/Sec

Bytes Total/Sec


Solaris 9 Operating SystemDiscovery Information



Related Monitors



OperatingSystem Total Percent Processor Time

300 s True




OperatingSystem Available MBytes

300 s True




OperatingSystem Available MBytes Swap

300 s True


Alert severity:


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Critical

Process Cron Service Health

300 s True




Process Syslog Service Health

300 s True




Process Rpcbind Service Health

300 s True




Process Utmp Service Health

300 s True




Process Nsc Service Health

300 s True




Process SSH Service Health

300 s True




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Related Rules


Total Processor % Processor Time (Solaris 9)

False True Not applicable

Total Processor % Idle Time (Solaris 9)


Total Processor % User Time (Solaris 9)


Total Processor % Privileged Time (Solaris 9)


Total Processor % IO Wait Time (Solaris 9)


Available MBytes Memory (Solaris 9)


% Available Memory (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Used Memory MBytes (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

% Used Memory (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Pages/sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Page Reads/sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Page Writes/sec (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Available MBytes Swap (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

% Available Swap Space (Solaris 9)


Used Swap MBytes (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

% Used Swap Space (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Related Views


Operating System State State view for Solaris Operating System instances


Operating System Health Dashboard view that shows state and alerts for Solaris


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Operating System instances Network Adapter Health

Operating System Performance

Dashboard view that shows performance metrics for Solaris Operating System Instances




Processor Performance Performance view that shows processor performance metrics for Solaris Operating System instances




Memory Utilization Performance

Performance view that shows memory utilization metrics for Solaris Operating System instances

Available MBytes Swap (Solaris 9)



% Available Memory (Solaris 9)

Memory Paging Performance view that shows memory paging metrics for Solaris Operating System instances

Pages/sec (Solaris 9)

Page Reads/sec (Solaris 9)

Page Writes/sec (Solaris 9)

Related Reports


Operating System Configuration


Properties:

OS Version

OS Version Display name


Operating System Performance Analysis report Solaris 9 Operating System

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Performance Analysis (Hourly aggregation)

Metrics:

Percent Processor Time (Total)

Percent IO Wait Time (Total)

Percent Privileged Time (Total)

Percent User Time (Total)

Pages/sec

Percent Used Memory

Percent Used Swap Space

Operating System Performance History


Metrics:





Pages/sec

Percent Used Memory



Memory Performance Analysis


Metrics:

Pages/sec

Page Reads/sec

Page Writes/sec

Used Megabytes Memory

Used Megabytes Swap


Memory Performance History


Metrics:

Pages/sec

Page Reads/sec

Page Writes/sec



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Used Megabytes Swap

Solaris 9 Physical DiskDiscovery Information


14400 False Enable this discovery to enable physical disk monitoring. It is not recommended to enable this discovery for computers with a very large number of physical disks.

Related Monitors



Physical Disk Health

300 s True




Physical Disk Avg. Disk sec/Transfer

300 s True




Related Rules


Physical Disk Bytes/sec (Solaris 9)


% Disk Time (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

% Idle Time (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Avg. Disk sec/Transfer (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

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Related Views


Physical Disk State State view for Solaris Physical Disk Instances

Discover Solaris 9 Physical Disks

Physical Disk Health Dashboard view that shows state and alerts for Solaris Physical Disk Health instances



Physical Disk Performance Dashboard view that shows performance metrics for Solaris Physical Disk instances

Avg. Disk sec/Transfer (Solaris 9)


Solaris 9 ProcessorDiscovery Information


14400 False Enable this discovery to enable per-processor monitoring. It is not recommended to enable this discovery for computers with a very large number of processors.

Related Monitors



Processor Percent Processor Time

300 s True




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Related Rules


Processor % Time (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Processor % Idle Time (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable

Processor % User Time (Solaris 9)


Processor % Privileged Time (Solaris 9)


Processor % IO Time (Solaris 9) False True Not applicable


Solaris 10 Computer





Solaris 10 Processor




Related Rules



True

Alert priority: Low


The path to the log file specified in syslog configuration must be provided as an


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override (LogFile) when enabling this rule.


True






True






True






True





Syslog Critical Alert Rule

True



The path to the log file specified in syslog configuration must


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be provided as an override (LogFile) when enabling this rule.

Sysid Config Alert Rule

True





Related Views









Related Monitors



Logical Disk Health

300 s True


Alert severity:


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Critical


300 s True



Automatic False Enable this monitor for three state free space monitoring by percentage and Megabytes free. Disable the Logical Disk % Free Space monitor when enabling this monitor.


300 s True





300 s True





300 s True




Related Rules








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Related Views






sec/Transfer









Logical Disk\Disk Bytes/sec Performance

Performance view that shows Disk Bytes/sec values for Solaris Logical Disk instances


Related Reports





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Metrics:

Percent Used Inodes

Percent Used Space



Metrics:

Percent Used Inodes

Percent Used Space


Logical Disk (File System) Performance Analysis


Metrics:

Disk Bytes/sec

Disk Read Bytes/sec


Disk Reads/sec

Disk Writes/sec

Transfer/sec




Metrics:

Disk Bytes/sec

Disk Read Bytes/sec


Disk Reads/sec

Disk Writes/sec

Transfer/sec




Properties:

Device Name

File System

Size (Bytes)


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Related Monitors




300 s True




Related Rules





Related Views











Network Adapter\Bytes

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Total/Sec Performance

Related Reports




Metrics:

Bytes Received/Sec

Bytes Sent/Sec

Bytes Total/Sec




Metrics:

Bytes Received/Sec

Bytes Sent/Sec

Bytes Total/Sec





Related Monitors




300 s True




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300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True


Alert severity:


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Critical


300 s True




Process Fmd Service Health

300 s True




Related Rules



















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Related Views




Operating System Health Dashboard view that shows state and alerts for Solaris Operating System instances
















Available MBytes Memory

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(Solaris 10)






Related Reports




Properties:

OS Version



Operating System Performance Analysis


Metrics:





Pages/sec

Percent Used Memory





Metrics:





Pages/sec


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Percent Used Memory




Metrics:

Pages/sec

Page Reads/sec

Page Writes/sec


Used Megabytes Swap




Metrics:

Pages/sec

Page Reads/sec

Page Writes/sec


Used Megabytes Swap





Related Monitors




300 s True Automatic True Not applicable

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300 s True




Related Rules








Related Views










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Related Monitors




300 s True




Related Rules



Processor % Idle Time (Solaris 10)








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Solaris 11 Computer





Solaris 11 Processor




Related Rules



True

Alert priority: Low





True






True



The path to the log file specified in syslog configuration must be provided as an override (LogFile) when enabling this


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rule.


True






True





Syslog Critical Alert Rule

True





Related Views






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Related Monitors



Logical Disk Health

300 s True





300 s True



Automatic False Enable this monitor for three state free space monitoring by percentage and Megabytes free. Disable the Logical Disk % Free Space monitor when enabling this monitor.


300 s True





300 s True





300 s True




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Related Rules








Logical Disk Bytes/sec (Solaris 11) False True Not applicable




Related Views






sec/Transfer









Logical Disk\Disk Bytes/sec Performance view that shows Logical Disk Bytes/sec

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Performance Disk Bytes/sec values for Solaris Logical Disk instances

(Solaris 11)

Related Reports




Metrics:

Percent Used Inodes

Percent Used Space




Metrics:

Percent Used Inodes

Percent Used Space


Logical Disk (File System) Performance Analysis


Metrics:

Disk Bytes/sec

Disk Read Bytes/sec


Disk Reads/sec

Disk Writes/sec

Transfer/sec




Metrics:

Disk Bytes/sec

Disk Read Bytes/sec


Disk Reads/sec

Disk Writes/sec

Transfer/sec


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Properties:

Device Name

File System

Size (Bytes)





Related Monitors




300 s True




Related Rules





Related Views




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Related Reports




Metrics:

Bytes Received/Sec

Bytes Sent/Sec

Bytes Total/Sec




Metrics:

Bytes Received/Sec

Bytes Sent/Sec

Bytes Total/Sec





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Related Monitors




300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True





300 s True



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300 s True





300 s True




Related Rules



















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Related Views




Operating System Health Dashboard view that shows state and alerts for Solaris Operating System instances
















Available MBytes Memory

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(Solaris 11)






Related Reports




Properties:

OS Version



Operating System Performance Analysis


Metrics:





Pages/sec

Percent Used Memory





Metrics:





Pages/sec


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Percent Used Memory




Metrics:

Pages/sec

Page Reads/sec

Page Writes/sec


Used Megabytes Swap




Metrics:

Pages/sec

Page Reads/sec

Page Writes/sec


Used Megabytes Swap





Related Monitors




300 s True Automatic True Not applicable

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300 s True




Related Rules






Avg. Disk sec/Transfer (Solaris 11) False True Not applicable

Related Views










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Related Monitors




300 s True




Related Rules



Processor % Idle Time (Solaris 11) False True Not applicable






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