HP OneView 24.1.2 Activities, 24.1.3 Utilization graphs, 24.1.1 Initial check: the Dashboard

24 Monitoring data center status, health, and performance

This chapter describes the recommended best practices for monitoring data center status, health, and performance using HP OneView.

24.1 Daily monitoring

As part of the daily monitoring of your data center, it is important to be able to quickly scan the appliance-managed resources to assess the overall health of your data center. By reviewing the UI screens, you are able to rapidly analyze the state and condition of your data center.

24.1.1 Initial check: the Dashboard

The Dashboard provides an at-a-glance visual health summary of the appliance resources you are authorized to view. The Dashboard can display a health summary of the following:

•Server Profiles

•Server Hardware

•Enclosures

•Logical Interconnects

•Appliance alerts

The status of each resource is indicated by a color: green indicates OK, yellow indicates a warning, and red indicates a critical condition. You can link to the resource screens in the UI for more information by clicking on the status icons displayed for each resource.

To learn more about the Dashboard screen, see “Using the Dashboard screen” (page 176).

24.1.2 Activities

The Activity screen provides a log of health and status notifications. The appliance verifies the current activity of resources in your environment, and posts alerts to the Activity screen and to the associated resource screens for you to review.

The Activity screen is also a database of all tasks that have been run, either synchronously or asynchronously, and initiated by the user or system. It is similar to an audit log, but provides more detail and is easily accessed from the UI.

To learn more about activities, see “About activities” (page 173).

24.1.3 Utilization graphs

For certain resources, the appliance collects CPU, power, and temperature utilization statistics from management processors (the iLO, Onboard Administrator, and iPDU). Utilization graphs enable you to understand recent utilization statistics relative to available capacity, see utilization trends over time, and see historical utilization over time. Hover over the utilization area in the UI to display tool tips.

The Enclosures screen	View historical metrics of power consumption (average,
	peak, and power cap) and temperature.
The Server Hardware screen	View historical metrics of CPU utilization/CPU frequency,
	power consumption (average, peak, and power cap), and
	temperature.
The Power Delivery Devices screen	View historical metrics of power consumption (average and
	peak and previous 5 minutes, previous 24 hours).
The Interconnects screen	View uplink port statistics of the bit transfer rates (transmitted
	and received).

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