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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Red | Critical |
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Yellow | Warning |
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Blue | Information |
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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.
Click the Print icon to save an output of the current dashboard to a 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.