HP Insight Control for Linux 6.0 User Guide

# 'nagios' contact definition
define contact{
contact_name nagios
alias Nagios Admin
service_notification_period 24x7
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 [e-mail]
pager [e-mail]
}
Changing the values for email and pager to reflect the system name enables Nagios to send
notification through the sendmail utility. For example, change
[e-mail] to [e-mail].
Nagios can generate a large number of email messages. See Section 15.5 (page 181) for information
about how to use the open source Nan utility to control the number of messages Nagios sends.
14.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time
This section describes how to use the HP Insight Control for Linux Performance Dashboard tool
to display real time metrics. The following topics are addressed:
• “Performance Dashboard overview” (page 168)
• “Performance Dashboard features” (page 168)
• “Performance Dashboard requirements” (page 169)
• “Interpreting the data in a ring plot” (page 169)
• “Launching the Performance Dashboard tool” (page 170)
• “Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool” (page 171)
• “Performance Dashboard tool metrics” (page 171)
• “Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics” (page 172)
14.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview
The HP Insight Control for Linux web-based Performance Dashboard tool displays actual metric
data in real time for all servers being monitored and managed by HP Insight Control for Linux.
Data is refreshed at one second intervals, and you can dynamically select the metrics you want
to display for the managed servers.
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.
14.8.2 Performance Dashboard features
The Performance Dashboard tool provides the following features:
• Monitors and displays metrics data for all or user-selected servers 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 server directly from the ring plot
168 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems