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

19.4 Installing Insight Control for Linux management agents...................................................155
19.5 Verifying successful configuration of the monitoring services...........................................155
19.5.1 Ensuring that Nagios is reporting status................................................................156
19.5.2 Summarizing service status.................................................................................156
20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems................................158
20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview......................................................158
20.1.1 Collecting metrics through a management processor...............................................159
20.1.2 Collecting metrics through OS agents...................................................................159
20.1.3 Collecting events with syslog...............................................................................159
20.2 Nagios overview.....................................................................................................159
20.2.1 Nagios documentation......................................................................................160
20.2.2 Launching Nagios............................................................................................161
20.3 Using Nagios..........................................................................................................162
20.3.1 Viewing network health.....................................................................................162
20.3.2 Viewing Nagios hosts and services.....................................................................164
20.3.3 Displaying hosts and services that are experiencing problems.................................166
20.3.4 Displaying network bandwidth and system use.....................................................167
20.3.5 Gathering and displaying system environment data...............................................170
20.4 Services monitored by Nagios...................................................................................170
20.5 Understanding Nagios alert messages........................................................................172
20.6 Understanding system event log monitoring ................................................................173
20.7 Configuring Nagios email alerts................................................................................173
20.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time..................................................................................174
20.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview.......................................................................174
20.8.2 Performance Dashboard features........................................................................174
20.8.3 Performance Dashboard requirements.................................................................175
20.8.4 Interpreting the data in a ring plot......................................................................175
20.8.4.1 Ring plot color coding...............................................................................176
20.8.4.2 Ring plot units of measure..........................................................................176
20.8.5 Launching the Performance Dashboard tool.........................................................176
20.8.6 Using the mouse buttons to manipulate the Performance Dashboard tool.................177
20.8.7 Performance Dashboard tool metrics...................................................................177
20.8.8 Customizing the Performance Dashboard tool metrics............................................178
21 Using the command line to view managed system status.........................179
21.1 Archiving sensor metrics on an individual basis.............................................................179
21.2 Displaying usage, statistics, and metrics with the shownode command.............................180
21.2.1 Displaying configuration information for a managed system.....................................180
21.2.2 Displaying all host hames associated with a managed system.................................181
21.2.3 Using the shownode virtual command..................................................................182
21.2.4 Using the shownode metrics command.................................................................182
21.2.4.1 Displaying system sensor information............................................................182
21.2.4.2 Displaying processor usage and load...........................................................183
21.2.4.3 Displaying memory....................................................................................183
21.2.4.4 Displaying paging and swap data ..............................................................184
21.3 Displaying environmental data....................................................................................184
21.4 Reporting usage information and host and service status................................................184
22 Connecting to a remote console..........................................................186
22.1 Console management facility overview........................................................................186
22.2 How CMF works......................................................................................................186
22.3 Accessing a remote console.......................................................................................186
22.4 Serial connections on DL100 series servers..................................................................187
22.5 Enabling telnet access to iLO management processors...................................................187
IV Other topics..........................................................................................189
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