HP OneView manual Best practices for monitoring data centers, Monitor data center temperature

To learn more about utilization graphs, see “Monitoring power and temperature” (page 179).

24.1.4 Monitor data center temperature

The appliance provides detailed monitoring data that you can use to determine the power and cooling capabilities of the devices in your data center. The overall cooling in your data center might be sufficient; however, there might be areas that are insufficiently cooled due to conditions such as poor airflow, concentration of excessive heat output, or wrap-around airflow at the ends of aisles. To easily identify temperature issues and look for thermal hotspots in all areas in your data center, use the 3D visualization features provided by the Data Centers UI screen.

To learn more about temperature, see “Monitoring power and temperature” (page 179).

24.2 Best practices for monitoring data centers

The following are recommended best practices for using HP OneView appliance to ensure the health of the managed components in your data center environment.

24.2.1 Best practices for monitoring health with the appliance UI

HP recommends the following best practices to monitor the health of the managed resources in your environment.

NOTE: The status represented for all HP OneView resources represents the status for that single resource and does not represent the roll-up status of sub-components. For example, the status for an enclosure does not aggregate status for all blades and servers, but rather just the status of the enclosure (Onboard Administrator, fans, and power supplies).

General health monitoring steps

Monitoring step

1.Navigate to the Activity screen and filter activities, using the filtering options that work best for the situation.

You can also start from the Dashboard screen to see alerts for specific resources.

2.Navigate to a specific resource screen to view the specific activities for that resource.

On the resource screen, verify the state of the resource instances via health status icons.

3.Investigate each resource instance with a warning or error status.

4.Expand critical and warning alerts to see their full descriptions, and click Event details to view additional information about the event(s) that caused the alert.

5.Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.

Related information

“About activities” (page 173)

“Using the Dashboard screen” (page 176)

“Icon descriptions” (page 62)

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