PMP Setup and Installation Guide v5.5

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Start monitoring
This chapter describes how to begin monitoring licensed servers with PMP.
Enabling monitoring
Licenses must be applied to servers and network storage enclosures before monitoring can be started on those
devices. For more information about licensing, refer to the “Licensing” chapter of this guide.
Changing server monitoring status
Servers that are licensed for monitoring are displayed on the Monitoring Administration page with a checkbox
next to them. Servers that are currently being monitored by PMP appear with “Started” as the value in the
Monitor Status column. Servers that are not currently being monitored have no value in the Monitor Status
column. Note the default values for monitoring status, log days and number of samples listed beside each server.
The server list displayed on the Monitoring Administration page can be filtered to display all devices, all
monitoring devices, all devices available for monitoring, all alerting devices, all devices available for alerting, all
logging devices, or all devices available for logging. Select the appropriate filter from the View dropdown box.
Use the page links, which appear when there are multiple pages, for navigation between pages.
To change the monitoring status for a particular server:
1. From the HP SIM console toolbar, select Options>Performance Management Pack Options>Configuration.
2. Click the Server tab. Servers or network storage enclosures available for monitoring appear in the list.
3. Identify the server for which to change monitoring parameters from the server list, and select or deselect the
box next to the server. The checkbox at the top of the column can be used to select or deselect all of the
servers listed on the page.
4. Select or deselect the monitoring parameters (Monitor/Alert/Log) for the server, and select the log days
and the number of samples to use to determine status from the dropdown list.
5. Click Apply. The changes made to the monitoring status of the server are updated.
Selected servers begin a new monitoring session with the updated parameters, terminating any current
monitoring session.