HP Insight Control - Manual (Page 16)

Monitoring Administration page
This page lists the number of discovered and licensed servers. The server list includes all of the licensed
servers by name, model, IP address, monitor status, mode of operation, sample rate, and number of samples.
The default monitoring status and number of samples values are assigned to a server when it is monitored.
The Monitoring Administration page also allows you to change the monitoring parameters of the monitored
servers.
The figure displays the Monitoring Administration page. To open the Monitoring Administration page:
From the HP Insight Control console toolbar, select Options
→Performance Management→Monitoring
Administration . The Monitoring Administration page appears in a new window.
Servers are monitored based on the performance monitoring parameters. You can set the monitoring status
and the number of samples on the Monitoring Administration page for the servers that you want to monitor.
NOTE: The Re-Identify Servers button identifies the present configurations of the servers to determine if
any configuration changes have occurred after the monitoring or licensing was enabled for the servers.
Default performance management monitoring settings
This section provides information on the default performance management monitoring settings.
The default monitoring settings are:
•
Monitor
•
Number of samples to determine status - 5
•
Number of log days - 30
The default monitoring settings can be changed on the Monitoring Administration page by selecting either
Monitoring, Alert, or Log and accordingly select the number of days, months, or years for the log option.
Also, the number of samples to determine the status of the servers can also be modified using the Monitoring
Administration
page.
Setting performance management monitoring parameters
Servers are monitored based on the performance monitoring parameters. The monitoring status and the
number of samples must be configured in the performance management for servers to be monitored.
Insight Control performance management monitoring operates in four modes:
16 Monitoring the server performance