.
Sample agents that monitor the audit database for threshold violations
and perform common actions when violations are detected are included
in the audit samples package. You can set threshold values that are used for some metric scores. Acceptable threshold values depend on your operating environment. When a threshold is crossed, the state of the metric score changes.
For example, you determine that the maximum acceptable queue length is 50 items. You select Low values are good. You set the upper value to 50 and the lower value to 40. If the queue remains below 40 items in length, the metric score is green (good). If the queue length goes above 40 items, the metric score is yellow (average). If the queue length goes above 50 items, the metric score is red (poor).
Or for percentage of successful requests, you select High values are good. You set the upper value to 98 and the lower value to 95. If the percentage of successful requests goes below 95 percent, the metric score is red (poor). If the percentage of successful requests is between 95 and 98 percent, the metric score is yellow (average). If the percentage of successful requests remains above 98, the metric score is green (good).
Changes to thresholds are effective immediately.
There are no threshold defaults. You must set thresholds for metric scores to display.
If you want to be notified when thresholds are exceeded,
you can create an agent .
Sample agents that monitor the audit database for threshold violations
and perform common actions when violations are detected are included
in the audit samples package.
You can also apply threshold values to more than one entry at
once using a template. See . For individual entries, you can choose to
use the template setting or to override the template setting.
Log entries occur
in the following circumstances:
when metric thresholds are violated
when enumerated metrics, such as operational status, change
Logs are not generated when metric values change but remain in the same range.
Start Cognos Connection.
In the upper-right corner, click Launch, Cognos Administration.
On the Status tab, click System.
In the upper left corner of the Scorecard pane, click the arrow to view the Change view menu, and then click the view that you want.
To change the threshold for a metric, in the Metrics pane, click
the Edit thresholds button 
next
to the metric.
To override template settings that may exist for this type
of entry , click Override the thresholds
acquired from the template.
Click the performance pattern that you want: High values are good, Middle values are good, or Low values are good.
To specify a threshold value, click in the threshold box and enter the threshold number you want.
Click the arrow beside the threshold value to specify which range the value itself falls into.
For example, if your maximum value is 50 and you want values of 50 to fall into the average category rather than the poor category, click the arrow to move the threshold value into the average category.
Click OK.
