HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 7)

19.2 Configuring a self-signed Apache certificate on the CMS...............................................154
19.3 Starting management and monitoring services .............................................................154
19.4 Installing Insight Control for Linux management agents...................................................156
19.5 Verifying successful configuration of the monitoring services...........................................156
19.5.1 Ensuring that Nagios is reporting status................................................................157
19.5.2 Summarizing service status.................................................................................157
20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems................................159
20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview......................................................159
20.1.1 Collecting metrics through a management processor...............................................160
20.1.2 Collecting metrics through OS agents...................................................................160
20.1.3 Collecting events with syslog...............................................................................160
20.2 Nagios overview.....................................................................................................160
20.2.1 Nagios documentation......................................................................................161
20.2.2 Launching Nagios............................................................................................162
20.3 Using Nagios..........................................................................................................163
20.3.1 Viewing network health.....................................................................................163
20.3.2 Viewing Nagios hosts and services.....................................................................165
20.3.3 Displaying hosts and services that are experiencing problems.................................167
20.3.4 Displaying network bandwidth and system use.....................................................168
20.3.5 Gathering and displaying system environment data...............................................171
20.4 Services monitored by Nagios...................................................................................171
20.5 Understanding Nagios alert messages........................................................................173
20.6 Understanding system event log monitoring ................................................................174
20.7 Configuring Nagios email alerts................................................................................174
20.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time..................................................................................175
20.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview.......................................................................175
20.8.2 Performance Dashboard features........................................................................175
20.8.3 Performance Dashboard requirements.................................................................176
20.8.4 Interpreting the data in a ring plot......................................................................176
20.8.4.1 Ring plot color coding...............................................................................177
20.8.4.2 Ring plot units of measure..........................................................................177
20.8.5 Launching the Performance Dashboard tool.........................................................177
20.8.6 Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool.................178
20.8.7 Performance Dashboard tool metrics...................................................................178
20.8.8 Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics............................................179
21 Using the command line to view managed system status.........................180
21.1 Archiving sensor metrics on an individual basis.............................................................180
21.2 Displaying usage, statistics, and metrics with the shownode command.............................181
21.2.1 Displaying configuration information for a managed system.....................................181
21.2.2 Displaying all host hames associated with a managed system.................................182
21.2.3 Using the shownode virtual command..................................................................183
21.2.4 Using the shownode metrics command.................................................................183
21.2.4.1 Displaying system sensor information............................................................183
21.2.4.2 Displaying processor usage and load...........................................................184
21.2.4.3 Displaying memory....................................................................................184
21.2.4.4 Displaying paging and swap data ..............................................................185
21.3 Displaying environmental data....................................................................................185
21.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status................................................185
22 Connecting to a remote console..........................................................187
22.1 Console management facility overview........................................................................187
22.2 How CMF works......................................................................................................187
22.3 Accessing a remote console.......................................................................................187
22.4 Serial connections on DL100 series servers..................................................................188
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