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Quick access to vital performance reports

Ops Center Analyzer communicates various types of information to you about the resources in your data center through vital performance reports.

Monitoring performance is crucial to effective data center management. System administrators require access to resource information at any moment, displayed to help understand the complex processes in the data center.

Ops Center Analyzer offers numerous gauges and reports for instant recognition of problems and long-term tracking of resource usage and events. You can also customize the display of the dashboard, charts, and reports.

Dashboard overview

The Ops Center Analyzer dashboard provides reports that display the performance status of system resources (hypervisors, storage systems, and switches), user resources (volumes, hosts, and VMs) and consumers (user resources such as virtual machines or volumes grouped by company name or business system consumer).

The dashboard shows IT infrastructure health based on real-time service-level objective (SLO) information, and provides status reports that display the capacity and performance data of all your monitored system and user resources.

When you first log on after the product is installed, the dashboard is unavailable and you are prompted for setup tasks. If you click OK, the Analyzer detail view Server window opens, and you can begin the initial setup by clicking Edit Settings.

After the initial setup, the dashboard displays the following reports by default:

  • System Status Summary for Consumers and User Resources report: Displays the performance and status summary of monitored consumers, and gauges of the number of VMs, hosts, and volumes with alerts.
  • Event Trends report: Displays the changes in the number of critical, warning, and information alerts for the past 72 hours.
  • System Resource Status report: Displays the status of monitored server, SAN, and storage components.
  • Resource Events report: Displays a list of resource events based on the time of event occurrence. The most recent events appear at the top of the list.

You can customize the dashboard to display reports that you prefer to monitor. To reset the dashboard to display the default reports, click Restore Default Settings.

The status indicator displays the number and severity of alerts generated by the storage environment.

Icon Color Definition
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GUID-6CFB018E-6454-499A-B8B7-9779D0AC2335-low.jpg Yellow Warning
GUID-AD44F689-8B30-4181-9D21-E9FA2D7EE8D8-low.jpg Blue Information
GUID-6021AA61-3440-4204-818F-A06A7AB060FE-low.jpg Green Normal
Overall performance summary

If the summary bar is green, then all SLOs have been met. However, these status and empty reports can also indicate that you did not set up the Ops Center Analyzer for performance monitoring. Use the configuration workflow to set up the Ops Center Analyzer to monitor managed resources.

If the summary bar is red, a critical error was detected. Alert bars are listed in order of priority:

  • Consumer
  • User Resource
  • System Resource

The dashboard displays the critical and warning status in the system in order of priority.

For example, if a warning alert occurs in a Consumer or User Resource, and a critical alert occurs in a System Resource, the indicator bar displays the status of the Consumer or User Resources because Consumers and User Resources have a higher priority than System Resources.

The default refresh time for the dashboard is 5 minutes. You can manually refresh the dashboard by clicking Refresh at the top of the dashboard, or by configuring the refresh interval time in the Dashboard Settings window.

NoteIf a VM on a Hyper-V server is set to be monitored, the relationships between hosts and storage systems do not display on the E2E View.
Print

Click the Print icon to save an output of the current dashboard to a file.

Note The Chrome browser will save the output as a PDF file. Internet Explorer and Firefox only support the IPS file format. If you have a suitable PDF software package installed, you can use the native print function of Internet Explorer or Firefox and select to print as a PDF file.
Search

The search feature on the home page lets you search for a resource in the Consumers, Servers, Storage Systems, and Volumes categories. From the returned search results, select the resources you need to analyze, and launch the E2E view or Sparkline view for further analysis.

System Status Summary for Consumers and User Resources

The System Status Summary for Consumers and User Resources report displays the performance status summary of monitored consumers, VMs, hosts, and volumes.

A screenshot of System Status Summary for Consumers and User Resources

System Status Summary for Consumers

Consumers are business management units under which user resources such as virtual machines, hosts, or volumes can be grouped by company name or business system consumer, and assigned grades based on their importance.

A screenshot of the System Status Summary for Consumers report.

The Consumer pane displays the consumer grades, the total number of alerts for each, and a bar graph of the highest alert severity in each grade, as follows:

  • Consumer grades are listed from the highest to the lowest grade. Consumers with a bronze grade are grouped under Others.
  • The total number of critical or warning alerts displays above the total number of consumers for each consumer grade. If there are critical and warning alerts for a specific consumer grade, then the alert for the highest severity displays.
  • The number of alerts for each grade is a link that opens the Consumers - Critical/Warning window.
  • If more than one alert exists for any specific grade, a bar graph appears. A red bar indicates critical errors, and a yellow bar is a warning. If the number of resources with critical and warning alerts exceeds 10, only the critical alerts display.
  • If there are no consumers associated with a specific type of grade, - / - displays for the number of alerts.
  • If no consumers are associated with a grade, or if no data is available, No Data displays instead of a bar graph.

System Status Summary for User Resources

The System Status Summary - VM/Host and Volume reports display the status of all monitored VMs, hosts, and volumes.

A screenshot of the System Status Summary - VM/Host and Volume reports.

Both the VM/Host pane and the Volume pane display a Resource Status information gauge, where the top number is the total critical or warning alerts received from the VMs and hosts, or volumes that exceeded the critical or warning thresholds for any monitored metric. The bottom number indicates the total number of VMs, hosts, or volumes in the system.

Under Metrics, a bar graph displays the total number of VMs and hosts with critical and warning alerts for any monitored metric.

For the Volume summary, Metrics displays a bar graph of the total number of volumes with critical and warning alerts for any metrics. In the bar graph, red is the total number of critical alerts and yellow is the number of warning alerts.

For example, if there are 3 critical alerts and 5 warning alerts, then both critical and warning display in the gauge. If the number of critical alerts is greater than 9, only the red bar (critical) displays because the maximum value of the gauge is 10.

To view details about the resources that exceed the defined critical or warning thresholds, click the number link in the information gauge chart or bar graph. A list of affected resources appears in a new window. Select the resource and then click Show E2E View to view the data center topology and review the system configuration to analyze the performance problem.

System Resource Status report

The System Resource Status report is one of the default reports that appears on the Ops Center Analyzer dashboard. It provides a heat map of the current status of system resources such as server (CPU, memory, NIC, HBA, and disk), SAN (switches), and storage (ports, processors, cache, pools, and parity groups) components.

A screenshot of the System Resource Status report

Each red tile shows a critical alert, and each yellow tile shows a warning alert. Unknown resources are considered Normal and are represented by green tiles.

To view details about the resources that exceeded the defined thresholds, click the number link. A list of affected resources appears in a new window. Select the resource and then click Show E2E View to view the data center topology and review the system configuration.

Event Trends report

The Event Trends report is one of the default reports that appears on the Ops Center Analyzer dashboard. It provides a trend report of all critical and warning alerts in your environment for the past 72 hours. It is useful in comparing the change history and the number of critical alerts, especially for an administrator who manages the entire system.

  • When you hover over a specific bar in the trend report, a tool tip displays the total number of alerts, the number of critical alerts, and the number of warning alerts for a specific time period. Each bar represents an hour.
  • Blue blocks at the bottom of the trend report indicate configuration changes for a specific time period. The darker the shade of blue, the larger the configuration change from one time period to the next.
  • When you hover over a change history at the bottom of the trend report, the tool tip displays the number of changes in a specific time period. The date is in the format yyyy-mm-dd, and the time hh:mm.

A screenshot of the Event Trends report

If you see a spike on the trend report, navigate to the E2E View from the System Status Summary report to view the data center topology and review the configuration and status information. You can then use the Sparkline View and analytics workflow to solve the problem.

Resource Events report

The Resource Events report table on the Ops Center Analyzer dashboard lists the most current resource events in descending order, based on the Date Time column. You can view a maximum of 500 critical and warning events that occurred in the past 24 hours.

A screenshot of the Resource Events report

To view details about the resources that exceeded the defined thresholds, click the associated message link. Click Show E2E View from the Event Detail tab to view the data center topology and review the configuration and status information.

System and Resource Events

You can view the latest events in one place and manage the events based on the status.

The Events tab displays details about significant events in your monitored environment.

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There are two categories of events:

  • System Events

    The System Events tab displays Management and Event Action events generated when system settings must be verified or configured.

  • Resource Events

    The Resource Events tab displays Performance events generated when a device or component (server, storage system, network device, and so on) does not perform optimally.

    You can analyze the Resource events by using the end-to-end network topology view to identify the resource that generated the event.

The All Events tab displays both System and Resource events. Each event indicates the level of the alert, the date and time of the alert message, category, device name, and component name. Click a message in the Message column to open the Event Detail window.

Use the Event Detail window to display more event details, such as the device type and component type. You can scroll through the list for more events. For Resource events, you can click Show E2E View to view the network topology.

The Event levels classifications are as follows:

  • Critical: Event that requires immediate attention
  • Warning: Event that might become critical in the future
  • Informational: No immediate action required

Sending dashboard reports to users

You can schedule the delivery of dashboard reports to users. All current dashboard reports are sent as an email attachment.

Before you begin

Make sure the mail server and the sender address are set up as described in Configuring the mail server.

Procedure

  1. Click Dashboard Settings.

  2. Set Send Reports to ON.

  3. Choose to deliver the report Daily, Weekly (Sun-Sat), or Monthly, and set the Time of day when they are to be sent.

  4. Enter one or more email recipients in the To field.

  5. Click OK.

Customizing the dashboard

You can customize the dashboard settings to display the reports that you must monitor. The system saves the changes made to the dashboard settings and the next time you log in, previously selected reports display on the dashboard.

Procedure

  1. On the Dashboard tab, click Dashboard Settings.

  2. (Optional) In the Dashboard Settings window, change the dashboard refresh time.

    You can change the refresh time interval by using the Refresh Interval text box. (The default is 5 minutes.)

  3. Check the boxes next to the reports that you want on the dashboard and uncheck the other reports.

  4. (Optional) To reset the dashboard to display default reports, click Restore Default Settings.

  5. Click OK.