Searching the Help
To search for information in the Help, type a word or phrase in the Search box. When you enter a group of words, OR is inferred. You can use Boolean operators to refine your search.
Results returned are case insensitive. However, results ranking takes case into account and assigns higher scores to case matches. Therefore, a search for "cats" followed by a search for "Cats" would return the same number of Help topics, but the order in which the topics are listed would be different.
Words and Phrases
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Topics that contain the word "cat". You will also find its grammatical variations, such as "cats". |
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A phrase. You can specify that the search results contain a specific phrase. |
"cat food" (quotation marks) |
Topics that contain the literal phrase "cat food" and all its grammatical variations. Without the quotation marks, the query is equivalent to specifying an OR operator, which finds topics with one of the individual words instead of the phrase. |
Using Boolean Operators
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Two or more words in the same topic |
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| Either word in a topic |
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| Topics that do not contain a specific word or phrase |
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| Topics that contain one string and do not contain another | ^ (caret) |
cat ^ mouse
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| A combination of search types | ( ) parentheses |
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Startup parameter: alertcpulimit
Startup parameters change the behavior of the Service Manager server. You can always set a startup parameter from the server's operating system command prompt.
Parameter
alertcpulimit
Description
This parameter defines the number of standard deviations from the mean CPU usage that cause the Service Manager server to issue an alert message.
For example, suppose that a customer reports that they have set the alertperoidicschedule record to expire every 5 minutes. This means that every 5 minutes we look at the amount of CPU consumed by each process in the last 5 minutes. We take all the values and we get an average. Given all the values that make the average there is a statistical calculation called the standard deviation that returns a number that represents how far from the average each deviation is. If all of the users used between 5 and 7 cpu seconds then the standard deviation would be really small. If all the users used between 5 and 100 cpu seconds (assume the values were spread out across this range) then the standard deviation would be larger. So in the last case lets assume the average was 50 and the standard deviation was 3, then we would report on any user who used more than 65 seconds (50 + 5*3).
Valid if set from
Server's operating system command prompt
Initialization file (sm.ini)
Requires restart of the Service Manager server?
No
Default value
5
Possible values
Number of standard deviations
Example usage
Command line: sm -httpPort:13080 -alertcpulimit:2
Initialization file: alertcpulimit:2
Related topics
System parameters
Enter a parameter in the sm.ini file
Alert parameters
