Status

Description

 

 

Unknown

The status of the alert or task is unknown.

 

The status of a task that is set to run at a later time is Unknown.

 

 

Disabled

A task was prevented from continuing or completing; for example, this could indicate a

 

canceled file upload.

 

 

24.4 Using the Dashboard screen

24.4.1About the Dashboard

The Dashboard provides a graphical representation of the general health status of several managed resources in your data center. From the Dashboard, you can immediately see the areas that need your attention. For direct access to resources needing your attention, select the resource name for a filtered view.

Each time you log in to the appliance, the Dashboard is the first screen you see. To view the dashboard graphs, select Dashboard from the main menu.

Only those resources you are authorized to view or manage appear on the Dashboard.

See “How to interpret the Dashboard graphs” (page 176) to learn more about the resource health and capacity information that appears on the Dashboard.

24.4.2 Dashboard screen details

Hover your pointing device on a graph slice to view the count of resource instances being represented by that slice. Hovering you pointing device on a graph slice changes the text and count displayed in the center of the graph.

The following graphs appear on the Dashboard:

Graph name

Description

 

 

Status

The Status graphs summarize the health status of several resources.

 

The number displayed next to the resource name indicates the total number of instances of that

 

resource that are known to the appliance. To learn more about a resource, click the resource

 

name to display its main screen.

 

In Status graphs, the dark gray color indicates the number of resources that are not reporting

 

information because they are either disabled or are not being managed by the appliance.

 

To filter the view of a resource based on its status, click the status icon.

 

To learn more about health status and severity icons, see “Icon descriptions” (page 62).

 

 

Servers with profiles

The default view of the Servers with profiles graph reports the count of server hardware instances

for Server

with assigned server profiles. If the graph is not solid blue, hover your pointing device on the

Hardware

light gray graph slice to see the count of servers without profiles.

 

 

Populated blade

The default view of the Populated blade bays graph reports the count of server hardware instances

bays for Enclosures

in all managed enclosure bays. If the graph is not solid blue, hover your pointing device on the

 

light gray graph slice to see the count of empty blade bays.

 

 

24.4.3 How to interpret the Dashboard graphs

Dashboard graph colors provide a quick way to visually interpret the data being reported.

Table 9 Dashboard graph colors

Color

Indication

 

 

Green

A healthy status

 

 

Yellow

An event has occurred that might require your attention

 

 

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