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.
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.