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

16.4 Using Insight Control for Linux to run commands and scripts through SSH.......................153
16.4.1 Running an SSH command............................................................................................153
16.4.2 Running a Linux script...................................................................................................153
III Monitoring.................................................................................................................155
17 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections ................................................157
17.1 Introduction to collections......................................................................................................157
17.2 Populating a collection...........................................................................................................158
17.3 Adding servers and switches to an Insight Control for Linux collection..............................158
17.4 Removing a managed system or switch from an Insight Control for Linux collection.........160
18 Setting up management hubs ............................................................................161
18.1 About management hubs.......................................................................................................161
18.2 Creating a management hub..................................................................................................162
18.3 Removing a management hub...............................................................................................163
19 Configuring monitoring services ........................................................................165
19.1 Overview of monitoring.........................................................................................................165
19.2 Configuring a self-signed Apache certificate on the CMS.....................................................165
19.3 Starting management and monitoring services ....................................................................165
19.4 Installing Insight Control for Linux management agents......................................................167
19.5 Verifying successful configuration of the monitoring services..............................................167
19.5.1 Ensuring that Nagios is reporting status.......................................................................168
19.5.2 Summarizing service status...........................................................................................168
20 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems .......................................171
20.1 Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview........................................................171
20.1.1 Collecting metrics through a management processor...................................................172
20.1.2 Collecting metrics through OS agents............................................................................172
20.1.3 Collecting events with syslog......................................................................................172
20.2 Nagios overview.....................................................................................................................172
20.2.1 Nagios documentation...................................................................................................173
20.2.2 Launching Nagios..........................................................................................................174
20.3 Using Nagios..........................................................................................................................175
20.3.1 Viewing network health.................................................................................................175
20.3.2 Viewing Nagios hosts and services................................................................................177
20.3.3 Displaying hosts and services that are experiencing problems.....................................179
20.3.4 Displaying network bandwidth and system use...........................................................180
20.3.5 Gathering and displaying system environment data....................................................183
20.4 Services monitored by Nagios................................................................................................183
20.5 Understanding Nagios alert messages...................................................................................185
20.6 Understanding system event log monitoring .......................................................................186
20.7 Configuring Nagios email alerts............................................................................................186
20.8 Monitoring Metrics in real time.............................................................................................187
20.8.1 Performance Dashboard overview.................................................................................187
20.8.2 Performance Dashboard features...................................................................................187
20.8.3 Performance Dashboard requirements..........................................................................188
20.8.4 Interpreting the data in a ring plot.................................................................................188
20.8.4.1 Ring plot color coding............................................................................................189
20.8.4.2 Ring plot units of measure.....................................................................................189
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