8 monitoring metrics in real time, 1 performance dashboard overview, 2 performance dashboard features – HP Insight Control Software for Linux User Manual

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host_notification_period 24x7
service_notification_options w,u,c,r
host_notification_options d,u,r
service_notification_commands notify-by-email,notify-by-epager
host_notification_commands host-notify-by-email,host-notify-by-epager
email [email protected]
pager [email protected]
}

Changing the values for email and pager to reflect the system name enables Nagios to send
notification through the sendmail utility. For example, change
[email protected]

to [email protected].

Nagios can generate a large number of email messages. See

Section A.5 (page 262)

for information

about how to use the open source Nan utility to control the number of messages Nagios sends.

20.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time

This section describes how to use the Insight Control for Linux

Performance Dashboard

tool to

display real time metrics. The following topics are addressed:

“Performance Dashboard overview” (page 175)

“Performance Dashboard features” (page 175)

“Performance Dashboard requirements” (page 176)

“Interpreting the data in a ring plot” (page 176)

“Launching the Performance Dashboard tool” (page 177)

“Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool” (page 178)

“Performance Dashboard tool metrics” (page 178)

“Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics” (page 179)

20.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview

The Insight Control for Linux web-based Performance Dashboard tool displays actual metric data
in real time for the managed systems, that is, servers that Insight Control for Linux monitors and
manages. Data refreshes at one second intervals, and you can dynamically select the metrics you
want to display for the managed systems.

The Performance Dashboard tool receives its data from Supermon and displays the data in the
form of a ring plot, similar to a pie chart.

Running the Performance Dashboard tool slightly affects the system performance of the CMS and
the managed systems.

20.8.2 Performance Dashboard features

The Performance Dashboard tool provides the following features:

Monitors and displays metrics data for all or user-selected managed systems in the
icelx_servers

subcollection

Reports data for up to 100 systems in a single ring plot

Creates multiple ring plots when the hardware configuration has more than 100 systems

Offers a large selection of predefined metrics

Refreshes metrics data every second

Extends monitoring capabilities by launching Nagios directly from the ring plot

Provides a quick launch capability, which runs relevant Insight Control for Linux tasks on a
target managed system directly from the ring plot

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