6.5.11 Bulk threshold update

We can export and update multiple threshold configurations. This feature can be accessed from the Settings => Thresholds => Threshold configuration export submenu. The first step is to search for the thresholds and select some of them from the result list. The user can search by threshold attributes and by hierarchy as well:

·       Name of the equipment under which the threshold is

·       Name of the site under which the equipment is

·       Name of any sites above this parent site (Site name (recursive) option)

·       Name of the virtual site under which the equipment is

·       Name of any virtual sites above this virtual site (Virtual site name (recursive) option)

The file header contains property names. The data is in table format, one threshold per. The file format can be either a text file or an Excel XLSX file, however the later is only available if PVSR is running on a Linux 6 or later system. When using the text file format the data separator is the tabulator character.

Exported threshold properties are:

·       ID: identifier number, must not be changed

·       Name

·       Level: Critical, Major, Minor or Warning

·       Quick eval: Y or N (yes or no)

·       Type: Name of the threshold type if set, otherwise empty

·       E-mail: email objects in the form of:

user_login - email_name, user_login2 - email_name2, …

·       Mobile notification: who should receive mobile notification if an alarm occurs, in the given form. If the recipient is a user then it must be presented in the form User + user name (and not the user login name); if the recipient is a mobile notification group then in the form Group + group name

<Group|User> name, <Group|User> name, <Group|User> name, …

           For example:

                   Group group_name_1, Group group_name_2, User user_name_1

·       SNMP Trap: using the same format as on the threshold configuration page

·       When: name of the business hours is set, otherwise empty

·       Command

The export file can be edited with any external text editor. However it is important that the data separator character must remain to be the tabulator character when using the text file format.  The file can be imported using the Settings => Thresholds => Bulk threshold update submenu. The user has to specify the import file and the processing mode. The “Validate only” option does the same operations as the “Full process”, but it does not commit the changes into the database. The import process validates the header part of the import file and it will only accept the file if the header is the same as in the export file.