Owners Manual

Resource Monitors | Performance Monitoring
OMNM 6.5.2 User Guide 371
Resource Monitors
This summary screen displays currently, active performance monitors in brief.
The
Name column displays the identifier for each monitor instance, Enable displays a green check
if it is currently enabled, or a red minus if it is disabled.
The
Monitor Type column typically displays what the monitor covers. Hover your cursor over this
column to see a popup with the selected monitor’s properties. The popup that appears after this
query displays the relevant information for the monitor, including whether it is
Name, Enabled ,
and
Monitor Type .
The graph that appears to the right of the monitors displays the aggregate availability information
for the enabled monitors. Topics graphed include,
Available, Not Available, No Data and Not
Applicable.
Yellow icons mean that not all the data requested was collected. This can occur when MIB
attributes have been deprecated. Typically, OpenManage Network Manager monitors include
alternative attributes.
Right-click a listed monitor to do the following (not all menu items appear for all types of
monitors):
New Monitor —Opens the Select Monitor Type popup, where you can select the type of monitor
to create. Pressing continue after doing so will open the Monitor Editor. See
Monitor Editor
on page 378 for details.
New (from Template) —Opens the Select Template popup, where you can select a template for a
new monitor. Pressing continue after doing so will open the Monitor Editor, where you can
configure the equipment targets for preconfigured monitor templates of the type(s) selected
in the sub-menu. These templates are based on monitors described in
Monitor Options
Type-Specific Panels
on page 397, but have already have selected attributes and calculations.
You can examine exactly what these are in the editor that appears when you select one.
Edit Monitor —Opens the Monitor Editor , where you can modify the selected monitor. For a look
at the individual monitors’ screens, see
Monitor Options Type-Specific Panels on page 397.