HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

• Allows user customized metrics as well as predefined metrics
14.8.3 Performance Dashboard requirements
The servers you want to monitor must fulfill the following requirements for using the Performance
Dashboard tool; the servers must be:
• Licensed for HP Insight Control for Linux
• Configured to use HP Insight Control for Linux monitoring services, as described in Chapter 5
(page 55)
14.8.4 Interpreting the data in a ring plot
Each segment, or slice, of a Performance Dashboard ring plot represents data for one managed
server. Each metric is shown in its own ring plot, and each server has its own segment of the
ring plot. The ring plots are arranged in rows and columns based on the window size and the
number of ring plots displayed.
Figure 14-12 illustrates the Performance Dashboard tool's default view, the percent of CPU load.
The center dial shows the current value.
Figure 14-12 Performance Dashboard default view: percent of CPU load
Figure 14-13 illustrates three ring plots that are displaying the CPU load (percentage), system
uptime (in days) metrics, and a partial view of the free root file system space (percentage). The
center of the ring shows the current value for the metric as well as the minimum, average, and
maximum values of all the selected managed systems.Table 14-3 (page 171) describes how to use
the mouse buttons to display additional metrics.
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