Enriching CA UIM Alarms

You can use the alarm_enrichment probe to make your alarm messages more meaningful. For example, you could configure alarm_enrichment to change the message field in an alarm if it comes from a particular source.

The alarm_enrichment configuration settings are contained in the enrichment-source, enrichment-rules, and routing-rules sections of the raw configuration for the nas probe. The high-level steps for creating enrichment rules are as follows:

1. Set up a CMDBs environment – Before you can enrich alarms, you must configure an enrichment source in the CMDB section. This is typically set as query to the CA UIM database.
2. Set up enrichment rules – The enrichment rules define the values to overwrite in the alarm message. You can also define additional filter criteria for alarm enrichment.
3. Set up routing rules – If necessary, you can also configure routing rules to send alarms to different subjects.

For more information and examples, refer to the nas documentation on the CA UIM Probes DocOps Space.