HP Insight Control for Linux 6.2 User Guide

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 A.5 (page 274) 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 187)
• “Performance Dashboard features” (page 187)
• “Performance Dashboard requirements” (page 188)
• “Interpreting the data in a ring plot” (page 188)
• “Launching the Performance Dashboard tool” (page 189)
• “Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool” (page 190)
• “Performance Dashboard tool metrics” (page 190)
• “Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics” (page 191)
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 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 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.
20.8.2 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
• Allows user customized and predefined metrics
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