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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Tool Bar
The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor tool bar provides quick access to the following:
Dashboards
This panel contains various dashboards that present the status of your resources from various perspectives. For example, the Global Scan dashboard presents a comprehensive view of your infrastructure, and allows you to drill down by system group, system, or alert status. Default dashboards include the following:
- Global Scan
- Resource Scan
- SLAs
- Applications
- Network
- All Elements
- All Services
- Custom Example
- Map
Administrators and users can also create custom dashboards, built from component widgets, that provide a specific view not provided out of the box.
For more information about using the Dashboards panel, see Overseeing Your Infrastructure.
My Portal
By default, when users log into Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, the first view they are presented with is the My Portal panel. The My Portal panel gives quick access to basic Uptime Infrastructure Monitor functions and to saved reports. The My Portal panel is divided into the following sections:
- Assistance
- My Preferences
- Latest Uptime Articles
- Uptime Information
- My Alerts
- Saved Reports
For more information about using the My Portal panel, see My Portal.
MyInfrastructure
The My Infrastructure panel provides an inventory of your resources. You can view information about systems and their monitoring status. From the My Infrastructure panel, you can add and view:
- Systems
- Groups
- Applications
- Service Level Agreements
- Views
For more information about using the My Infrastructure panel, see Managing Your Infrastructure.
Services
The Services panel enables you to manage and configure services, which are provided by an application to perform a specific task. Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitors both services and applications to ensure that performance and availability are maintained.
In the Services panel, you can manage and configure the following:
- service instances and service groups
- Alert Profiles and Action Profiles
- host checks
- topological dependencies
- scheduled maintenance
For more information about using the Services panel, see Using Service Monitors.
Users
The Users panel enables you manage all users, user groups, Notification Groups and their associated permissions. You can view, create, edit, and delete the following:
- users
- user groups
- notification groups
- user roles
For more information about using the Users panel, see User Management.
Reports
The Reports panel enables you to manage and create detailed, custom reports on the performance and availability of the resources in your enterprise.
Using the Reports panel, you can:
- generate a report and schedule when you want it to be generated
- select how and where you would like the report delivered
For more information about using the Reports panel, see Using Reports.
Config
The Config panel enables you to configure the following:
- Uptime Infrastructure Monitor license information and the license key
- archive policies
- mail servers
- Monitoring Periods
- remote reporting instances
- user authentication
You can also generate problem reports and edit some Uptime Infrastructure Monitor system configuration options from the Config panel. For more information about using the Config panel, see Configuring and Managing Uptime Infrastructure Monitor.
Search
As you enter text in the Search Uptime field, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor configuration actions, as well as the display names of Elements, are displayed.
For example, initially entering the string “serv” displays the Add Service Monitor and Add Service Group commands. The string could also display Element names such as "QA Server 1" and "Active Directory". In the latter example, the match would occur if the Element’s host name were "AD-Server".
For all Elements, the string entered is compared with the Element’s host name, display name, architecture, and custom fields.
System List
The system list (Syslist) is a popup window that contains the following information:
- the display names in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor and the host names of systems in your environment, arranged in alphabetical order
- the name of the group to which, if any, the system belongs
You access the system list by clicking the Syslist icon in the top-right corner of the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Web interface. The Syslist is also a tool for quick navigation within the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Web interface. Each display name is a hyperlink. Click a display name to view the information about the system in the System Information subpanel.
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Understanding Services
Services are specific tasks, or sets of tasks, performed by an application in your environment. For example, network services such as FTP or TCP transmit data in a network. Database services, such as Oracle, SQL Server, MySQL, or Sybase store and retrieve data in a database. Uptime Infrastructure Monitor service monitors continually check the condition of services to ensure that they are providing the functions required to support your business.
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor service monitors use a common template to ensure that the configuration of service monitors is the same across all monitors. For more information on services, see Using Service Monitors.
Understanding Service Groups
Service groups are service monitor templates that enable you to simultaneously apply a common service check to one or more hosts. Defining and using service groups greatly simplifies the task of initially setting up and maintaining common service checks that you wish to perform across many hosts in an identical manner.
For example, you can create a service group called CPU Performance Check that is associated with 50 different servers. You can apply a common performance monitor check to 50 servers.
With service groups, you save time by not having to manually re-create an individual service monitor with the exact same service check and Alert Profile for each server you want to monitor. There is no practical limit to the number or complexity of your service groups and the underlying service monitors associated with them.
Service groups can be created for both physical infrastructure assets that are monitored by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, as well as virtual assets managed by VMware vSphere. Although they are functionally identical, vSphere service groups are automatically applied to newfound ESX hosts, VMs, and other VMware vCenter objects that are discovered through the vSync process.
See VMware vSphere Virtual System Monitoring Concepts for information on vSync, and Service Groups for information on creating service groups.
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