Users Guide

To enable the monitor:
1. Launch the OpsMgr console.
2. From the navigation pane, click Authoring.
3. Click Monitors on the left pane and select the Network Interfaces Group monitor.
4. Click Entity Health → Availability.
5. Right-click Network Interfaces Group to Dell Server Health Roll up and select Overrides → Enable
the Monitor from the menu options.
State Views
This view is available for viewing the health of all Dell servers. In the OpsMgr console, click Dell → State
Views, the status of each Dell server managed by the OpsMgr on your network is displayed.
You can view the status for the Managed servers (In-Band) group.
The health of a component is derived by reviewing the unresolved alerts associated with the component.
Performance And Power Monitoring Views
To view the performance and power monitoring on the OpsMgr console:
1. Launch the OpsMgr console and click Monitoring.
2. In the Monitoring pane, click Dell → Performance and Power Monitoring for the following views:
• Ambient Temperature (Centigrade)
• Amperage (Amps)
• Dell Performance View
• Energy Consumption (kWh)
• Peak Amperage (Amps)
• Peak Power (Watts)
• Physical Network Interface
• Power Consumption (Watts)
• Power Consumption (BTU/hr)
• Teamed Network Interface
NOTE: Power monitoring is applicable only for Dell servers with power monitoring capability for
a particular attribute. It is enabled only when the detailed edition of Server In-band monitoring
feature is present.
NOTE: Teamed and Physical network interface instances are disabled by default and will appear
only when the detailed edition of the Server In-band monitoring feature is installed and
imported.
3. Select the counters from the individual performance views and select the time range for which the
values are required.
The data collected is represented in a graphical format for each system.
A unit monitor, monitors the performance counter over two successive cycles to check if it exceeds a
threshold value. When the threshold value is exceeded, the server changes state and generates an alert.
This unit monitor is disabled by default. You can override (enable and modify) the threshold values from
the Authoring pane of the OpsMgr console. Unit monitor is available under Monitors for Dell Windows
Server objects for Server In-band monitoring feature.
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