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Performance and Power Monitoring
Use Dell OpenManage IT Assistant to monitor the performance and power
consumption of a single system or a group of systems on your network.
Performance Monitoring
Performance Monitoring helps you monitor the performance of a group of
devices with supported Microsoft Windows or Linux operating systems over a
specified period of time. Performance is monitored with the help of a set of
performance counters available for each component. You can select and monitor
these performance counters. You can configure thresholds for each performance
counter and also configure alerts to be sent when the thresholds are crossed.
Using the Performance Monitoring feature, you can view the performance of
individual devices rolled up on the Device tree. The overall performance of
a device is calculated as the worst case status of the individual performance
counter attributes monitored for the device. For example, if the status for
the CPU Utilization counter is critical and the status of the memory paging
counter is warning, the overall performance status of the devices is displayed
as critical. From the Device tree, you can drill down to the performance
counters and take appropriate actions.
To view details of how each performance counter is performing on a
Dell
system
, do the following:
1
From the Device tree, expand the Server category
2 Select the system for which you want information.
3 On the right hand side pane, select the Performance and Power tab.
This tab displays the performance and power counter information for the
selected system.
From this view, you can create multiple tasks to monitor multiple devices
and manage these tasks, view results, and logs of these tasks.
NOTE: Performance monitoring enables you to monitor the usage of your systems
as against monitoring the health of the systems, which is provided by alerts and
notifications.