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3 monitoring server performance, Overview, Using the performance management interface – HP Insight Control User Manual

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3 Monitoring server performance

Overview

This chapter provides overview of how to use Insight Control performance management to monitor
the servers in your system. The features discussed in this chapter include:

Insight Control performance management interface

Monitoring Administration page

Default performance management monitoring settings

Setting performance management parameters

Number of samples

Sample rate

Setting performance threshold

Setting the log days

Manual Log Purge page

Using the Performance Management interface

This section shows how performance management is used. A usage scenario demonstrates setup,
administration, and server monitoring.

Opening the Insight Control console

For information on how to access the Insight Control console using the Internet Explorer or Firefox
web browsers, see the HP Systems Insight Manager 7.1 User Guide.

The Insight Control console runs in a web browser window. Icons in this column indicate the current
performance state of a server. Amber (Major) icon indicates that a bottleneck condition exists on
the selected server. See the following figure:

Overview

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