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The following reports enable you to visualize the overall performance of a system in the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor environment, as well as analyze the information to determine the cause of problems with those systems:

Resource Usage Report

The Resource Usage report tracks the usage of system resources and performance information for systems over a given period of time. In addition to the usage information reported on, the report displays the following information:

  • the name and description of the system
  • an overview of the system configuration, including architecture, memory size, operating system version, number of CPUs, and host ID

Creating a Resource Usage Report

To create a Resource Usage report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Resource Usage.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report.  For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. Select one or more of the following report options:
    • Resource Utilization
      The average and maximum amount of CPU and memory use.

    • CPU Performance Graph
      Tracks the performance of a system’s CPU over a specified time period. This information appears as a graph in the report.

    • Multi-CPU
      The percentage of total CPU time used on systems with more than one CPU.

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      If you find the report’s rendered graph too dense due to a large number of CPUs, alternatively generate a Multi-CPU Usage graph while including fewer CPUs.

    • Network I/O
      The average amount of traffic, measured in megabytes per second, that is traveling through the network interfaces. The report also identifies bursts in network activity that may occur over short intervals. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Network Errors
      Any errors that have occurred with the physical network interface. The errors can be, for example, collisions or handshake errors between a system and a switch.
    • TCP Retransmits
      Any network services that may not be completing properly because of undue network or system load. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Free Memory
      The amount of free memory available to the system. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Page Scanning Statistics
      The number of file system pages scanned by the page scanning daemon. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Disk Statistics
      The following statistics for each disk on a system:
      • percentage of the disk that is busy
      • average queue length
      • number of reads and writes per second
      • number of blocks accessed per second
      • average wait time, in seconds
      • average service time, in seconds
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      If the system for which you are creating a report for has multiple disks, a graph for each disk on the system is generated.

    • File System Capacity
      The amount of free disk space on the system. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Workload (Top 10 - CPU)
      The top 10 processes that are consuming CPU time, grouped by user ID, group ID, and process name. This information appears as a graph in the report.

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      This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

    • Workload (Top 10 - Memsize)
      The top 10 processes that consume system memory, based on the total memory size of the processes - including virtual pages and shared memory. This information appears as a graph in the report.

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      This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

    • Workload (Top 10 - RSS)
      The top 10 processes that are consuming physical memory (in KB), as measured by the run-set size (RSS) of the process. This information appears as a graph in the report.

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      This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

    • Network Device Interfaces
      The Resource Usage statistics for all Network Device interfaces associated with the selected Elements. The following statistics are included:

      Port Namethe name of the port
      Typethe type of port
      Usagethe percentage of the port's maximum throughput that was used by inbound and outbound packets
      In Ratethe average throughput of inbound packets, in Mbps
      In Usagethe percentage of the port's maximum throughput that was used by inbound packets
      Out Ratethe average throughput of outbound packets, in Mbps
      Out Usage %the percentage of the port’s maximum throughput that was used by outbound packets
      Errors #/secthe average number of errors per second
      Discards #/secthe average number of packets discarded per second
      Statusthe port status

      Multiple historical graphs are provided for this report including:

      • Total Rate (Mbps)
      • Usage (%)
      • In Rate (Mbps)
      • In Usage (%)
      • Out Rate (Mbps)
      • Out Usage (%)
    Optionally, click Select All to generate a report on all of the options listed above.
  4. If you selected more than one report option and plan to report on more than one system, you can optionally click the Group report options by system checkbox.
    Selecting this option combines the metrics for each system for which you are generating the report.
  5. To generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems, select the systems from the List of Systems.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. If you want to save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Resource Hot Spot Report

The Resource Hot Spot report is a key checkpoint report that allows you to quickly identify servers and network devices across your enterprise that may be having performance issues, so you can immediately start working to identify what may be causing them.

The Resource Hot Spot report helps you answer the following types of questions:

  • Which servers and network devices in my infrastructure were the top consumers in various resource usage categories?
  • Which servers are running short on memory, or are overworked?
  • Which VMs' processes need to be shared with another instance?
  • Are all network devices correctly configured?
  • For resource-strained Elements, is there a configuration issue or is it a resourcing issue?
The resource consumer summaries rank physical and virtual servers as well as network devices in various resource-related categories, allowing you to correlate top-ranking consumers across categories to identify specific problems. The summaries are populated irrespective of whether critical outages occurred, or the infrastructure experienced 100% uptime; this allows you to identify potentially strained resources before they enter warning-level states.

The report is also a valuable investigative tool that helps you quickly focus on the parts of your infrastructure that require troubleshooting. The report can be configured to include full listings of threshold-violating servers and network devices based on key resource-usage metrics such as memory and CPU usage, port throughput caps, or packet-issue counts. The high, low, and average for these metrics are presented, along with historical graphs for offending metrics; these details can help you confirm whether sustained resource strain, or wild swings are caused by resourcing deficits or configuration errors.

The Resource Hot Spot report is also a key starter report, as it is automatically created and saved for new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations. This report provides a summary of top resource users for the week. By default, a PDF version of the report is emailed to the SysAdmin user group.

The following are portions of an example Resource Hot Spot report: 

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The Resource Hot Spot report is a default report that is automatically created and saved for weekly generation on new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations, beginning the third day after Uptime Infrastructure Monitor was first installed.

 

Resource Hot Spot Report Details

The following information comprises the Resource Hot Spot report:

Servers
Top ServersOf the servers included in the report, the top five resource consuming servers in terms of CPU, memory, swap usage, and disk usage. These servers are listed regardless of whether they violated resource usage thresholds set during report configuration; if your entire infrastructure is meeting your resource usage criteria for the report, the top-five servers are still included in the summary for each category.
CPUThe percentage of CPU capacity used during the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
MemThe percentage of memory used by processes for the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period. 
Swap UsageThe percentage of memory swap space used during the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
Disk BusyThe percentage of time the server disk is handling transactions in progress for the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
Servers with High CPU Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average CPU usage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating CPU usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with High Memory Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average memory usage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating memory usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with High Swap Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average memory swap space usage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating memory swap space usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with High Disk Busy

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average disk processing for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating disk activity percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices
Top Network DevicesOf the network-device type Elements included in the report, the five most inefficient network devices in terms of in rate, out rate, error count, and discards. These network devices are listed regardless of whether they violated throughput or error thresholds set during report configuration; if all of your network devices are passing the criteria for the report, the top-five network devices are still included in the summary for each category.
In Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by inbound packets during the defined time period.
Out Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by outbound packets during the defined time period.
Errors per secThe average number of errors encountered per second, on a per port basis, during the defined time period.
Discards per secThe average number of packets discarded per second, on a per port basis, during the defined time period.
Network Devices with High In Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average in-rate percentage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating in-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with High Out Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average out-rate percentage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating out-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with High Errors

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average error-per-second count for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating error count (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with High Discards

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average discarded-packet count for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating discarded packet count (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Creating a Resource Hot Spot Report
To create a Resource Hot Spot report, do the following:
  1. On the Reports tab, click Resource Hot Spot, which is found in the Performance and Analysis section of the reports tree panel.
  2. In the date and time range section, select a reporting window.
    For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. In the Report Options section, configure which components comprise your report:
    • top-five lists for servers or network devices in various resource-usage categories
    • comprehensive lists of Elements that are experiencing performance issues in various resource-usage categories
    • for the Element list, the threshold used to determine which are experiencing performance issues
    By default, the Resource Hot Spot report is configured to display both servers and network devices in the Top Resource Consumers Summary, and list server-type Elements that violate various resource-usage thresholds. For information on these report components and thresholds, see Resource Hot Spot Report Details.
  4. Determine which Elements are included in the resource hot-spot assessment by selecting Infrastructure Groups, Element Views, or individual Elements from the following sections:
    • List of Groups
    • List of Views
    • List of Elements
  5. Continue with the desired report generation process:

Resource Cold Spot Report

The Resource Cold Spot report is a key checkpoint report that provides resource utilization less than the specified metrics, or rather the inverse of the Resource Hot Spot report.

The Resource Cold Spot report helps you answer the following types of questions:

  • Which servers and network devices in my infrastructure were the bottom consumers in various resource usage categories?
  • Which servers have unused memory, or are under worked?
  • Are all network devices correctly configured?

The resource consumer summaries rank physical and virtual servers as well as network devices in various resource-related categories, allowing you to correlate bottom-ranking consumers across categories to identify availability.

The report is also a valuable investigative tool that helps you quickly focus on the parts of your infrastructure that require troubleshooting. The report can be configured to include full listings of servers and network devices based on key resource-usage metrics such as memory and CPU usage, port throughput caps, or packet-issue counts. The high, low, and average for these metrics are presented, along with historical graphs for offending metrics.

The Resource Cold Spot report is also a key starter report, as it is automatically created and saved for new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations. This report provides a summary of bottom resource users for the week. By default, a PDF version of the report is emailed to the SysAdmin user group.

 

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The Resource Cold Spot report is a default report that is automatically created and saved for weekly generation on new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations, beginning the third day after Uptime Infrastructure Monitor was first installed.

 

Resource Cold Spot Report Details

The following information comprises the Resource Cold Spot report:

Servers
Bottom ServersOf the servers included in the report, the bottom five resource-consuming servers in terms of CPU and memory. These servers are listed regardless of whether they violated resource usage thresholds set during report configuration; if your entire infrastructure is meeting your resource usage criteria for the report, the bottom-five servers are still included in the summary for each category.
CPUThe percentage of CPU capacity used during the defined time period. In the Bottom Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
MemThe percentage of memory used by processes for the defined time period. In the Bottom Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period. 
Servers with Low CPU Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average CPU usage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating CPU usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with Low Memory Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average memory usage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating memory usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices
Bottom Network DevicesOf the network-device type Elements included in the report, the five least inefficient network devices in terms of in rate, out rate, error count, and discards. These network devices are listed regardless of whether they violated throughput or error thresholds set during report configuration; if all of your network devices are passing the criteria for the report, the bottom-five network devices are still included in the summary for each category.
In Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by inbound packets during the defined time period.
Out Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by outbound packets during the defined time period.
Network Devices with Low In Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average in-rate percentage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating in-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with Low Out Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average out-rate percentage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating out-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Creating a Resource Cold Spot Report
To create a Resource Cold Spot report, do the following:
  1. On the Reports tab, click Resource Cold Spot, which is found in the Performance and Analysis section of the reports tree panel.
  2. In the date and time range section, select a reporting window.
    For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. In the Report Options section, configure which components comprise your report:
    • bottom-five lists for servers or network devices in various resource-usage categories
    • comprehensive lists of Elements that are experiencing performance issues in various resource-usage categories
    • for the Element list, the threshold used to determine which are experiencing performance issues
    By default, the Resource Cold Spot report is configured to display both servers and network devices in the Bottom Resource Consumers Summary, and list server-type Elements that violate various resource-usage thresholds. For information on these report components and thresholds, see Resource Cold Spot Report Details.
  4. Determine which Elements are included in the resource cold-spot assessment by selecting Infrastructure Groups, Element Views, or individual Elements from the following sections:
    • List of Groups
    • List of Views
    • List of Elements
  5. Continue with the desired report generation process:

Multi-System CPU Report

The Multi-System CPU report charts and compares the CPU performance statistics from multiple systems in your environment. These statistics indicate whether the systems are exhibiting balanced behavior, or if processes are forced off CPUs in certain circumstances.

Creating a Multi-System CPU Report

To create a Multi-System CPU report, do the following:

  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Multi-System CPU.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report.  For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section.
    For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  5. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  6. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  7. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  8. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

CPU Utilization Summary Report

The CPU Utilization Summary report generates a tabular summary of the CPU and memory consumption over a specific time period. Specifically, this report returns the following information:

  • number of CPUs on the server.
  • the total processor speed of all the CPUs, in MHz
  • the maximum, minimum, and average CPU use, expressed as a percentage
  • the maximum, minimum, and average memory use, expressed as a percentage
  • the maximum, minimum, and average page scan per second, expressed as a percentage
Creating a CPU Utilization Summary Report

To create a CPU Utilization Summary report, do the following:

  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click CPU Utilization Summary.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. Select one of the following options from the Sort by dropdown list to sort the results that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor returns:
    • Average CPU (the default)
    • Hostname
    • # of CPUs
    • CPU Speed
    • Maximum CPU
    • Minimum CPU
    • Average Memory
    • Maximum Memory
    • Minimum Memory
    • Average Page Scan
    • Maximum Page Scan
    • Minimum Page Scan
  4. Select Ascending or Descending from the Sort Direction dropdown list.
  5. Optionally, in the Minimum sort value for inclusion field enter a value for the sort threshold.
    The report displays items from the Sort By list, whose value is equal to or greater than the value in this field. For example, if you chose # of CPUs from the Sort by list and set this field to 2, the report only displays systems with two or more CPUs.
  6. Select one or more of the following CPU statistics at which the report looks:
    • sys
      The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out system processes.
    • usr
      The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out user processes.
    • wio
      The percentage of CPU time that could be handling processes, but which is waiting for I/O operations to complete.
  7. Select one or more of the following statistics on which to report:
    • CPU
      The percentage of CPU resources that are used.
    • Memory
      The percentage of system memory that is used.
    • Page Scans
      The number of page scans per second.

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      The statistic you select must match the sort criteria that you selected in step 4. For example, if your sort criteria is Average CPU you must also select the CPU statistic. Otherwise, an error message appears when you try to generate the report.
  8. Optionally, in the Architectures to exclude field enter either the name of a system architecture or a regular expression that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor uses to ignore certain system architectures when generating the report.
    For example, if you want to exclude all Solaris systems from the report, enter SunOS in the field.

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    Uptime Infrastructure Monitor determines the architecture of a system by checking the output of the uname -a command on UNIX or Linux, or by analyzing one or both of the following Windows registry keys:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\
    WindowsNT\\CurrentVersion
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\
    Windows\\CurrentVersion
  9. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  10. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  11. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  12. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  13. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

CPU Utilization Ratio Report

The CPU Utilization Ratio report charts, in a table, the ratio of the percentage of CPU usage over a specified period of time. The ratio is derived by dividing the percentage of system time that is used by the percentage of user time. For example, if the amount of system time that is used is 22.12% and the amount of user time is 5.2%, then the CPU utilization ratio is 4.25.

This report contains the following information:

  • the names of the hosts for which the report is generated
  • the percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out user processes ( USR % )
  • the percentage of CPU time that is use to carry out system processes ( SYS % )
  • the CPU utilization ratio for each host, which is derived by dividing SYS % by USR %=
Creating a CPU Utilization Ratio Report
To generate a CPU Utilization Ratio report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click CPU Utilization Ratio.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section.
    For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally, enter a value in the Highlight ratios over threshold field.
    Any ratios that exceed the value in this field are highlighted in the report. For example, if you enter 2 and a server returns a ratio of 3.5%, that ratio is highlighted.
  5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Wait I/O Report

The Wait I/O report enables you to determine the amount of time that processes spend waiting on I/O from a system device.

The Wait I/O report contains the following information:

  • the names of the hosts for which the report is generated
  • the average, maximum, and minimum wait I/O times expressed as percentages
Creating a Wait I/O Report
To create a Wait I/O report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Wait I/O.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section.
    For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally, enter a value in the Highlight average WIO over threshold field.
    Any system with an average Wait I/O percentage that exceeds the value that you enter in this field is highlighted in red in the report. As well, the following text appears in the header of the report:
    Systems with an Average Wait I/O over x.x% are highlighted
    Where x.x is the percentage that you entered in this field.
  5. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  8. Select a report generation option.See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

Inventory Report

The Inventory report provides details about the composition of your monitored infrastructure by operating system, across physical and virtual Elements. The report contents can optionally be organized by group, and can include individual Element entries.

These different reporting options allow you to confidently assess your inventory from a variety of perspectives, and help you answer the following types of questions:

  • How many older versions of the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent are deployed on my systems?
  • What is the operating system breakdown across my infrastructure, both virtualized, and on physical systems?
  • I need to upgrade a particular OS version; which systems are candidates for this deployment?
Inventory Report Information
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Because the Inventory report displays all monitored Elements, the report is intended for system administrators. Non-administrative Uptime Infrastructure Monitor users who do not have permission to view all Elements cannot view complete inventory listings.

The following information can be displayed in the Inventory Report when you select Show Operating System Summary:

Operating System Summary

unique breakdown of physical and virtual Elements, with totals by OS, and component totals for OS versions

Physical Elements

the total number of systems-type Elements (i.e., not network devices, Applications, and SLAs)

this total includes virtual machines that are not managed by a VMware vCenter server Element (e.g., LPARs or VMware VMs manually added to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, and not through vSync)

Virtual Elements

the total number of Elements running on VM instances (i.e., VM instances with their own UUID)

Operating System

the detected operating system, including VMware environments

Version

the detected operating system version; build version details are listed if available

Element Name

the Element’s host name

Architecture

the detected hardware platform type on which the Element’s CPUs are running

Agent Version

if applicable, the version of the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent that is running on the Element

Added Date

the date the Element was added to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitored inventory

Group

the Element’s My Infrastructure group name

The following information can be displayed in the Inventory Report when you select Show Element Type Summary:

Element Type Summary

unique breakdown of physical and virtual Elements by type, with when the element was added, monitoring status, which group contains each element, and component totals for each Element type

Agent Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agents

vSphere Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as vSpheres

Virtual Machine Agentless Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agentless Virtual Machines
VMware vCenter Server Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as VMware vCenter Servers
Network Device Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Network Devices

Element Name

the Element’s host name

OS Type

the detected operating system, including VMware environments

Added Date

the date the Element was added to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitored inventory

Monitored

whether the Element is monitored (True) or not monitored (False)
Group

the Element’s My Infrastructure group name

The following information can be displayed in the Inventory Report when you select Show Monitor Summary:

Monitor Summary

unique breakdown of physical and virtual Elements by type, with element name, assigned Service Monitor, whether the Element is monitored and for what period of time, whether there are associated Alert and Action Profiles, and component totals for each Element Service Monitor

Agent Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agents

vSphere Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as vSpheres

Virtual Machine Agentless Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agentless Virtual Machines
VMware vCenter Server Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as VMware vCenter Servers
Network Device Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Network Devices

Element Name

the Element’s host name

Service Monitor

the name of the service monitor assigned to this Element

Monitored

whether the Element is monitored (True) or not monitored (False)

Notification

whether notifications are issued for this Element's service monitor (Yes) or notifications are not issued (No) regardless of status or interval

Monitoring Period

the Element's service monitor time period at which Uptime Infrastructure Monitor sends alerts

Alert Profile

whether the Element has an associated alert profile (Yes) or not (No)

Alert Profiles are templates that tell Uptime Infrastructure Monitor how to react to various alerts that are generated by service checks.

Action Profile

whether the Element has an associated action profile (Yes) or not (No)

Action Profiles are templates that direct Uptime Infrastructure Monitor when it encounters a problem on a monitored system.

 

Creating an Inventory Report
To create an Inventory report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Inventory Report.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. Optionally select the Don’t List Individual Elements check box to restrict the report to inventory summaries.
  4. Optionally select the Group by Selected System Groups check box to organize the report by group.
  5. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific Elements in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  8. Select a report generation option.See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

Service Monitor Metrics Report

You can configure the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor service monitors to retain data, which is saved to the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataStore for later use. The Service Monitor Metrics report visualizes the retained data in a line chart.

For example, if you have configured a service monitor to retain response time data then this report charts any changes in the response time (in milliseconds) that have occurred over the time period that you specified for the report.

Creating a Service Monitor Metrics report is a two-step process:

  • enter the basic parameters for the report
  • select the values for the retained on which you want to report
Creating Service Monitor Metrics Reports
To create a Service Monitor Metrics report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Service Monitor Metrics.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  4. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  5. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  6. Click Go to page 2.
    A table containing the current retained service metrics appears in the Service Metrics subpanel.
  7. Click the checkboxes in the Select column to select the variables on which you want to report.
  8. Optionally, select one of the following:
    • Show all non-ranged metrics on one chart
      This option combines all of the variables you selected in one chart. Any ranged metrics appear in their own charts.
    • Display charts as stacked area
      Each chart in the report has two or more data series stacked on top of each other, rather than the line graph that usually appears in the report.
  9. To save the report, do the following:
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field.
    • Optionally, enter text in the Description field.
    • Click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

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Reports for Availability

The following reports enable you to visualize the availability metrics for all your mission-critical Applications and your critical system services:

Server Uptime Report

The Server Uptime report is a key checkpoint report that provides you with a focused and succinct snapshot of your infrastructure's availability. Report components include overall availability based on a defined uptime up time threshold, availability by defined interval over the reporting period, as well as tallies of the number of Elements that experienced one or more outages, and the total number of outages. To assist with follow-up actions, Elements are listed by outage time and include details that help you determine whether the outage frequency or duration is contributing the most to total downtime. The Server Uptime report helps you answer the following types of questions:

  • What is the overall uptime up time of my entire infrastructure, and am I meeting my availability target?
  • What is the overall count of outages and my mean time to repair when there is a failure?
  • Which Elements or groups are experiencing the most downtime?

The Server Uptime report is also a key starter report, as it is automatically created and saved for new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations. This daily report provides an hourly breakdown of availability, using a 95% uptime threshold. By default, a PDF version of the report is emailed to the SysAdmin user group.

The following is an example of a Server Uptime report:

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The Server Uptime report is a default report that is automatically created and saved for daily generation on new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations.

 

Server Uptime Report Details

The following details are displayed in the Server Uptime report:

Uptime Summary
Overall UptimeThe uptime of all Elements included in the report for the defined time period. This is a composite uptime value for all individual Elements that are in an OK, WARN, or MAINT state; Element or Element group averages, or maximum values for a time period do not contribute to overall uptime.
Element OutagesThe total number of separate Element outages during the time period (because an individual Element can have more than one outage in the same time period).
Elements That FailedThe number of Elements that experienced an outage during the time period. Use this value to ensure the previous Element Outages count is not misleading due to the under performance of, for example, a single Element.
availability graph

A breakdown of the overall uptime for the time period, where the granularity is dependent on the Breakdown Type set during report configuration: by hour, day, week, or month. Availability for each time slice (i.e., whether it is marked as pass/green, or fail/red) is determined by the Target Percentage set during report configuration.

Uptime Details
ElementThe name of the Element that's in this report. Whether this Element is listed individually or within an Element group listing depends on whether you selected the Group by Element Group check box during report configuration. Elements are primarily sorted by uptime; Elements with equal uptime are sorted by name.
UptimeThe uptime for the specific Element during the time period, expressed as a percentage and bar. Element lists in the report are sorted by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor. The Target Percentage set during report configuration determines whether the Element is marked as pass/green, or fail/red.
Minutes DownThe total number of minutes the Element spent in a "down" state (CRIT or UNKNOWN) for the time period. If the Element experienced no downtime, this field is blank.
OutagesThe number of outages the Element experienced during the time period. If the Element experienced no downtime, this field is blank.
LongestThe number of minutes that comprises the Element's longest outage during the time period. Use this value to ensure the previous Minutes Down tally is not misleading due to, for example, a particularly long single outage among several short ones. If the Element experienced no downtime, this field is blank.
Creating a Server Uptime Report
To create a Server Uptime report, do the following:
  1. On the Reports tab, click Server Uptime, which is found in the Availability section of the reports tree panel.
  2. In the date and time range section, select a reporting window. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. In the Report Options section, configure the look and contents of your report:
    1. define the Target Percentage that determines whether Elements are displayed as critical performers in the report
    2. the time slice used to assess the target uptime value defined in the previous step:
      • Hourly
      • Daily
      • Weekly
      • Monthly
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      Because reports have a finite amount of space to present their information, use a level of granularity that suits the breadth of the date and time range selected for the report (e.g., hourly time slices for a daily report, or daily time slices for a weekly report).

    3. whether Elements included in the report are automatically displayed by Element group
    For information on the specific components of the Server Uptime report, see Server Uptime Report Details.
  4. Determine which Elements are included in the Uptime report by selecting Infrastructure Groups, Element Views, or individual Elements from the following sections:
    • List of Groups
    • List of Views
    • List of Elements
  5. Continue with the desired report generation process:

Application Availability Report

The Application Availability report tracks the availability of the Applications in your environment, as well as the monitors that are associated with the Applications. This report contains the following information:

  • the name of the Application
  • the service monitors that are associated with the Application
  • the percentage of time that the Application and monitors are in OK, Unknown, Warning, and Critical states

For more information on Applications, see Working with Applications.

Creating an Application Availability Report
To create an Application Availability report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Application Availability.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. Click the Show Details option to generate a full listing of information about the availability of the Applications, which is broken down by individual Applications.
  4. If you do not select this option, then a summary of the status of all Applications appears on a single line, as shown below:
  5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific Applications in your environment, select them from the List of Applications.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Incident Priority Report

The Incident Priority report provides information on the frequency, duration, and recovery time of critical-level events, and the overall reliability of your monitored systems. This information is presented for services that are associated with groups of Elements (whether a pre-defined group, or an manually selected list of individual Elements). Compared to the Service Monitor Outages report, the Incident Priority report, instead of providing an auditable list of outages, uses a comparative approach to indicate how efficiently systems are running in relation to each other, and furthermore, how efficiently problems are dealt with.

In order to report this efficiency, the following building blocks are available as elements in the report:

  • Incidents: The total number of outages for all service monitors associated with selected Elements. Critical-level events for multiple service monitors that are associated with a single Element each contribute to the incident count.
  • Incident Top 20: The 20 systems with the highest incident counts for the given time period (incidents meaning the number of times service monitors associated with selected Elements were in a critical state).
  • Total Downtime: The total amount of time that all service monitors associated with selected Elements were in a critical state. Multiple service monitors in a critical state that are associated with a single Element each contribute to the downtime total.
  • Downtime Top 20: The 20 systems with the highest downtime totals for the given time period.
  • Incident Priority Quadrant: A graph in which all selected Elements are placed on quadrants based on the total downtime, and number of incidents caused by their associated service monitors.

Note that, to provide clear results in the report, only service monitors that were manually assigned to, and are directly associated with, an Element are taken into account when downtime and incident counts are tallied. This means service monitors that may be automatically installed such as the Platform Performance Gatherer are not included; additionally, only an Application’s status as a whole affects downtime and incident counts, but its component service monitors--both master and regular service monitors--do not.

Using downtime and efficiency counts, the Incident Priority report includes the following key elements:

  • Mean Time Between Failure: The average amount of time that an Element’s associated service monitors were all running (i.e., in non-critical states) over a given time period.
    Elements whose associated service monitors experience no downtime are still included in the report, but do not include an MTBF count because they did not experience an incident during the time period.
  • Mean Time to Repair: The average number of minutes any of an Element’s associated service monitors were in a critical state over a given time period.
    A service is considered repaired, or under repair, when its status changes from critical to one of “MAINT,” “UNKNOWN,” “WARNING,” or “OK.”

For all report elements, a service monitor is considered to have reached a critical state--thus has caused an incident, is contributing to downtime, or is an ongoing failure--when it actually generates an alert. The period preceding the alert, during which rechecks are intermittently performed to avoid a false positive, does not count. See Understanding the Alert Flow for information on rechecks leading to a generated alert.

Creating an Incident Priority Report
To create an Incident Priority report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Incident Priority.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    Service monitors that, based on the selected time range, are already in a critical state are included in calculations for downtime, incident counts, and other report elements.
  3. In the Report Options area, select the charts you want included in the report. (These charts are described in the previous section.)
  4. For report charts that are tallies, such as the Incidents count, or Total Downtime, select a Breakdown Type, that is, the level of granularity at which the information is presented (daily, weekly, or monthly).
  5. If the report includes the Incident Priority Quadrant, configure the following two options:
    1. select whether to include Element names in the scatter plot
    2. in the list beneath the quadrant that shows all Elements in the quadrant, indicate whether you want it to be ordered by Incident Count, or Downtime
  6. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area. See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Report section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Service Monitor Availability Report

The Service Monitor Availability report tracks the status of the services associated with the hosts in your environment. This report lists the percentage of time each service was in the following states over the time period that you specify: OK, Warning, Critical, Maintenance, or Unknown.

For more information on each status, see Understanding the Status of Services.

Creating Service Monitor Availability Reports
To create Service Monitor Availability reports, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Service Monitor Availability.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  4. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  5. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems and Nodes.
  6. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  7. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Service Monitor Outages Report

The Service Monitor Outages report lists all warning or critical events for services that have occurred over a specified time period. Use this report to determine the cause of a problem by analyzing the declining availability of a server or set of servers.

The Service Monitor Outages report contains the following information:

  • the date and time at which metrics were gathered for each service
  • the duration of the outage
  • whether a notification was sent, or an action was taken
  • the status of each service
  • a short message about the status - for example:
    UPTIME-filter - Uptime agent running on filter, Uptime agent 3.9 solaris 1.17
Creating a Service Monitor Outages Report

To create a Service Monitor Outages report, do the following:

  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Service Monitor Outages.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. Select one of the following options from the Sort by dropdown list:
    • Sample Time by Element
    • Service Name by Element
    • All Sample Times
  4. From the Sort Direction dropdown list, select Ascending or Descending.
  5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

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Creating a Datastore Capacity Growth Report
To create a Datastore Capacity Growth report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Datastore Capacity Growth.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. Optionally, in the Exclude datastores names like field, enter either the name of a datastore or a regular expression that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor uses to ignore certain datastores when generating the report.
  4. Optionally, enter a value in the Exclude datastores over % full field.
    This value is expressed as a percentage. The report displays the information for datastores whose used disk space is less than the amount you enter in this field. For example, if you set this field to 45, the report only displays datastores whose percentage used values are less than or equal to 45%.
  5. If you are generating reports for specific datastores in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  6. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  7. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.