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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 tab
For more information about using the My Portal panel, see My Portal.
Infrastructure
The Infrastructure panel provides an inventory of your resources. You can view information about systems and their monitoring status. From the Infrastructure panel, you can add and view:
- Systems
- Groups
- Applications
- Service Level Agreements
- Views
For more information about using the 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
- monitoring periods
For more information about using the Services panel, see Using Service Monitors.
Reports
The Users Reports panel enables you manage all users, user groups, Notification Groups and their associated permissions. You can view, create, edit, and delete the following: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
- users
- user groups
- notification groups
- user roles
For more information about using the Users Reports panel, see User Management Using Reports.
ReportsConfig
The Reports Config 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::
- configure Uptime Infrastructure Monitor license information and the license key
- archive policies
- manage mail servers
- configure remote reporting instances
- configure user authentication
- set global credentials
- convert elements in bulk
- use VMware vCenter Orchestrator
- launch the Discovery wizard
- 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 Config panel, see Using Reports Configuring and Managing Uptime Infrastructure Monitor.
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
SysList
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
- OS and architecture details
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.
Search
As you enter text in the
Search Uptime fieldsearchfield, designated by the magnifying glass icon, 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
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 ManagementYou 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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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor includes a powerful set of reporting and graphing tools that enable you to visualize performance data. You can use the reports and graphs as the starting point when analyzing problems in your environment.
For more information, see Understanding Reports Options and Using Graphs.
Understanding Reports
Reports enable you to visually analyze how individual critical resources-- such as memory, CPU, and disk resources--are consumed over a specific period of time.
For detailed information about reports, see Using Reports.
If you need to regularly run certain reports, you can save them to the My Portal panel. See Scheduling Reports for more information.
Understanding Graphs
You can graph performance information when you need to view the most common or pertinent performance information for servers in your environment. For example, you can use a graph to determine CPU usage or the available capacity on a file system. Graphs give you a fine level of performance detail.
You can view graphs using the Java graphing tool on any platform (e.g., in Firefox, running on Linux). For more information about graphing, see Using Graphs.
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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor service monitors ensure the performance and availability of services in your environment. Using service monitors, you can ensure that the systems in your environment - including databases, mail servers, networking protocols, and file systems - are operating as required. Uptime Infrastructure Monitor also captures performance metrics collected from hardware profiles of physical systems in your environment and can present this data in a graph.
Uptime Infrastructure Monitor can track the performance of services using over 30 monitors. As well, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor enables you to configure custom monitors that you can use to extend your service monitoring capability.
For detailed information on service monitors, see Using Service Monitors.
Understanding Database Monitors
There are two types of monitors for MySQL, Oracle, and SQL Server databases:
- Basic Checks
These monitors determine whether the database is running and listening on the expected port. You can also run queries against the databases using scripts.
- Advanced Metrics
These monitors collect detailed information about database processes, which you can later use for reporting and graphing.
Understanding Agentless Monitors Using Net-SNMP
Net-SNMP suite of command line and graphical applications that interact with SNMP agents that are installed on hosts. Net-SNMP presents a set of SNMP MIBs (Management Information Base, which is a listing that defines variables needed by the SNMP protocol to monitor and control network equipment). The MIBs are used to collect system performance information for use by the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring Station.
The Net-SNMP monitor uses the HOST-RESOURCES MIB to collect the following data:
- Configuration
- System name.
- Number of CPUs.
- The size of the system memory.
- The network interfaces on the system, as well as their MTU, speed, and physical address.
Info The HOST-RESOURCES MIB can collect other configuration data, but the Monitoring Station does not use this information.
- Performance Data
- CPU
- CPU user time
- CPU system time
- CPU wait I/O time
- Memory
- the amount of free memory
- the amount of free swap space
- Processes
- the name of a process
- the ID of a process (PID)
- the amount of memory used by a process
- process run time (in centi-seconds on the CPU)
- the number of running processes
- Network
- the name of the network interface
- the number of kilobytes flowing into the interface per second
- the number of kilobytes flowing out of the interface per second
- the number of inbound errors
- the number of outbound errors
- File System
- the name of the file system
- the size of the file system
- the amount of the file system that is used
- User
- the number of users who are logged into the system
- CPU
For more information on SNMP and Net-SNMP, see SNMP-Based Systems .
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 Hyper-V and VMware vSphere. Although they are functionally identical to physical asset service groups, vSphere virtual service groups are automatically applied to newfound ESX hosts, VMs, and other VMware vCenter virtual objects that are discovered through the Sync (Hyper-V) and vSync (VMware) process.
See Virtual System Monitoring Concepts for information on
vSyncsynchronization, and Service Groups for information on creating service groups.
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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitors can return the following statuses for a service:
- 0 - OK
The services are functioning properly.
- 1 - Warning
There is a potential problem with one of more of the services.
- 2 - Critical
There is a critical problem with one or more services.
- 3 - Unknown
This status is returned when:
- The host on which the service sits is offline.
- The host on which the service sits is in a scheduled maintenance or downtime period.
- The Monitoring Station could not execute the service monitor.
Each status reflects the state of the service that is assigned to the system that you are currently viewing. Uptime Infrastructure Monitor picks up these error codes and triggers an alert or an action. If a service is in a warning or critical state, you can acknowledge an alert so that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor does not generate subsequent notifications.
The status of the services associated with a system are displayed on the Global Scan dashboard.
The figures in each column on the Global Scan dashboard indicate the number of services for that particular machine that are in each state. Click a number to view the System Status screen for a particular system. See Viewing the Status of a System for more information.
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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor enables you to save some or all of the metrics that its monitors collect to the DataStore. You can use the retained data to generate a Service Metrics report (see Service Monitor Metrics Report) or a Service Metrics graph.
The data that you can retain varies from monitor to monitor. For example, with the Windows Service Check monitor you can save the Service Status and Response Time metrics. With the Exchange monitor you can save all Web Mail and SMTP metrics.
You can save data to the DataStore by clicking the Save for Graphing checkbox on a monitor template.
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