Refine Rules
After rulebases are built and performing roughly as designed, you can fine-tune them as follows:
• | Increase rule efficiency by considering ways to faster and better respond to monitored conditions. Advanced testing and action options might be more efficient. Consider using different metrics, or changing thresholds. |
• | Maximize the information content of messages by using variable substitution to add information from a data source to your alerts and notifications. |
• | Consider other monitoring options such as building your own scripts, or instrumenting an application with an AMI interface. |
• | Increase the automation of your monitoring effort as you see possibilities to automate tasks you now do yourself. For example, using escalation to automate a scaled response to a continuing problem can eliminate the need for intervention. Adding a true test counter to a test can reduce the number of false alarms. |