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Monitoring and Management Panel

Displays a set of context-sensitive pages which are related to the active resource in the accordion menu. According to the selection in the Explore tree, primary tabs and associated secondary tabs (if available) appear in the right pane.

For resources in the Explore tree, the following context-sensitive primary tabs are available:

Quick Start

Accesses a customizable set of the most common actions for the active resource. Available Quick Start commands vary in context according to the resource that is selected in the Explore pane. To customize a Quick Start menu for a particular context, click the wrench (Edit) icon.

Summary

Health states, statistics, and properties provide you detailed information about the active resource.

Performance Charts

Depict key performance indicators. The available charts include, but are not limited to resource usage, memory fairness, CPU fairness, effective CPU resources, effective memory resources, VMotion Rate.The charts are color-coded, for example, CPU-related charts are in red, and memory-related charts are in green. The performance charts are context-sensitive and depend on the resource level that you select. You can see performance charts at a VM level or aggregated information at datastore, datacenter, cluster, or resource pool levels.

Note: To see detailed information about the performance charts, mouseover the performance chart in the Resources, Summary tab.

Monitored at a Glance panel

Charts the health states of managed resources like data centers, servers, resource pools, or VMs. The health states reflect CPU and Memory use. The (W:n C:m) part of a legend indicates n objects in a warning state and m objects in a critical state. You can click the severity category in a bar of the Monitored at a Glance chart. A list of objects with the selected health state appears. For example, a list of ESX servers in a warning state.

Events

Displays a table of event notifications for the active resource.

Details

Appears on systems which have SystemEDGE installed. The panel displays system-specific data and details about the operating system, processes, and managed devices. If Service Response Monitor is installed, you can view the specified tests.

Policy

Displays the current set of rules applicable to the active resource with options to create new rules with associated actions.

More information:

Rules and Actions

Monitoring Software

SystemEDGE and its Application Insight Modules (AIMs) provide the required infrastructure for discovering and monitoring the resources in your virtual and physical environment. Out-of-the-box monitors and autowatchers provide dynamic monitoring of resources. Autowatchers automatically create and delete monitors depending on resources which appear or disappear dynamically.

More information:

Managing Systems Performance

Configuration

Provides a list of all specified SystemEDGE Self Monitors, Process Monitors, Process Group Monitors, Log Monitors and Event Monitors. This panel lets you perform transient modifications only. If you want to do a permanent change in the configuration, consider doing it through Policy Configuration.

More information:

How to Configure SystemEDGE and Service Response Monitor Through Policies and Templates

Remote Monitoring

Provides performance data about Windows systems which are monitored through the Remote Monitoring AIM (agent-less monitoring). The performance data is gathered through the WMI interface on the Windows systems.

More information:

Remote Monitoring

vNetwork

Provides information about the vNetwork Standard Switches and vNetwork Distributed Switches in VMware vSphere environments.

More information:

Virtual Standard Switches and Virtual Distributed Switches in the vNetwork Panel

Analytics

Provides "Top 10" VMware vSphere performance data through portlets. You can add or remove portlets. Predefined portlets are available in a portlet library. You can apply portlets to the vSphere objects in the hierarchy of the Explore tree (except VMs).