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Resource Model Reference

High Percent Disk Time

This indication is sent when a physical disk is in heavy use, and the drive cannot process the requests fast enough. This lengthens the queue.

The indication has the following attributes:

PercentDiskTime
The percentage of time that the physical drive is being used

PercentWriteTime
The percentage of time that the physical drive is used for write operations

PercentReadTime
The percentage of time that the physical drive is being used for read operations

PhysicalDisk
The physical disk on which the physical disk resides (Key attribute)

The indication is generated when the following thresholds are exceeded:

Threshold Description Default
High Bytes per Second (HighBytesSec) This threshold must not be exceeded. 1 572 864
High Queue Length (HighQLength) The maximum number of outstanding requests, including those in progress, on the disk exceeds this threshold. 3
High Percent Usage (HighPercentUsage) The time spent by the selected disk to work exceeds this threshold. 90

The following table shows the default settings for this indication:


Setting Default
Send indications to Tivoli Enterprise Console Yes
Send indications to Tivoli Business Systems Manager No
Occurrences 10
Holes 1


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