Health checks are used to periodically check the health of a system. Health checks require some pre-configuration so the system knows how to compare health check values.
Health check values that indicate a problem allow the Eventconsumer to indicate system problems as soon as they occur.
sendevent -e TD1 -r ETL1 -t FREEDISK --et HCHK –v 98 -s ETL1 -m “Disk usage is at 98%” -u etlroot