Alerting and Parameters

[mgillespie1981 (Marc)]

Hi,

Quick question, if a parameter is set as ‘Default Value’ does this mean it will still alert? And if so how/where can I check what this default value threshold is?

If I click a service parameters and there is no rule configured, does that mean it won’t alert if it goes down?

Examples below are the processor queue for example:

Disk I/O Levels

[mgillespie1981 (Marc)]

I was told the following: “Only if you see “no parameters” then you have no default parameters.”

But how can the following therefore be alerting as critical if there are no default parameters set?

[aeckstein (Andre Eckstein)]

A lot of checks have default parameters that are not shown in the webinterface or can not be configured at all.
Mostly you can see in the check output / details which threshold is set, the warn and crit flags should be directly after the value that caused the problem.
To see the defaults there are a few options

• look into the detail / status output
• look into the help of the check plugin
• look into the plugin code of the check plugin
• do a cmk -D <hostname> as a site user

In the screenshot you can see, that your task exitet with an exit code, that is not a “regular” exit code like 0/1.
As checkmk can not know every possible random exit code of every windows task, you can explicitly map these exit codes to states in checkmk in the ruleset “windows tasks”.
So if you know, that for this task this exit code is o.k., you can map the exit code for this or several hosts to “OK”.

[mgillespie1981 (Marc)]

So I need a list of the defaults for auditing purposes.

So is this statement incorrect then? “Only if you see “no parameters” then you have no default parameters”

That being the case how can I obtain a list of what the default alerting parameters are for auditing purposes? Can this be achieved if I raise a support ticket or get these details like you mentioned.

I do see for the above example the ‘manual page for this check’ describes why this went critical:

[mgillespie1981 (Marc)]

I presume for all windows tasks this is the default alerting then:

[mgillespie1981 (Marc)]

Another example whether I’m not sure if it will alert or what the defaults are because it says no parameters is set is the following:

Does this mean when the device sends it’s own built in thresholds checkmk will also warn or critical? So therefore there actually is a built in threshold and alerting set here?