Novell Monitoring

Creating a new Novell monitor

Using the REST API to add a new Novell monitor: Click here

Follow the steps given below to create a new Novell monitor:

1. Click on Add New Monitor link under New Monitor.
2. Select Novell under Servers category.
3. Specify the Display Name of the Novell server.
4. Enter the Hostname/IP Address of the server on which Novell is running.
5. Enter the Subnet Mask of the network.
6. Select the Mode of Monitoring. (SNMP)
7. For SNMP mode, provide the SNMP port at which it is running (default is 161), and SNMP Version. This requires no user name and password information. Specify the following information based on the SNMP Version selected:
   • If SNMP v1v2 is selected, specify the Community String. Default value is 'public'.
   • If SNMP v3 is selected, specify the Security Level (NoAuth,NoPriv/Auth,NoPriv/Auth,Priv), User Name and Context Name.
8. Enter the credential details like user name and password for authentication, or select the required credentials from the Credential Manager list after enabling the Select from Credential list option.
9. Specify the Timeout value, in seconds.
10. Specify the Polling interval in minutes.
11. Choose the Monitor Group from the combo box to which you want to associate the monitor (optional).
12. If you are adding a new monitor from an Admin Server, select a Managed Server.
13. Click Add Monitor(s). This discovers the Novell servers from the network and starts monitoring them.

Monitored Parameters

Go to the Monitors Category View by clicking the Monitors tab. Click on the Novell monitors under the Servers table. Displayed is the bulk configuration view of the Novell monitors distributed into three tabs:

• Availability tab displays the availability history for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• Performance tab displays the health status and events for the past 24 hours or 30 days.
• List view tab enables you to perform bulk admin configuration.

Click on the individual monitors listed to view detailed Novell server performance metrics. The performance metrics have been categorized into 4 different tabs:

• Overview
• CPU
• Disk
• Network
• Hardware
• Configuration

Overview

The Overview tab displays basic monitor information along with the dials for CPU, Memory and Disk utilizations (in percentage). You can click on these dials to view detailed graphs and charts for these attributes. The graphs available are History report, hour of day report, day of week report and heat chart. These graphs can be generated for both real time and historical data.

You can use the Custom Fields option in the 'Monitor Information' section to configure additional fields for the monitor.

CPU

This tab provides the CPU usage statistics of the Linux server. The tab includes two graphs - one that displays the CPU utilization by CPU Cores and another that shows the Breakup of CPU utilization - by CPU cores. You can view additional reports by clicking the graphs present in the Breakup of CPU Utilization - by CPU coressection. These reports include the following graphs for all the CPU cores:

• Break up of CPU Utilization (%) vs Time
• User Time (%) vs Time
• System Time (%) vs Time
• I/O Wait Time (%) vs Time
• Idle Time (%) vs Time
• CPU Utilization (%) vs Time
• Interrupts/sec Vs Time

The CPU tab also shows the following performance metrics:

You can also view graphs for these attributes by selecting the necessary CPU core and then choosing the appropriate attribute from the dropdown.

Disk

This tab displays disk usage and disk I/O statistics of the Novell server.

Network

Hardware

To perform hardware monitoring for Novell servers, following settings need to be configured for the monitor:

Advanced Settings:

By clicking the Advanced Settings option available under Host Details in the right hand side of the page, you will be taken to the Performance Polling page for Servers, which can also be accessed under Settings tab. Here you can use the Hardware Health monitoring option to enable or disable hardware monitoring in servers. You can also opt the various hardware components (like power, fan, disk,etc.,) to be monitored by checking the options given. This will globally configure the hardware monitoring status. You can also configure the health status by defining values in the respective text boxes:

• Critical Severity: If the status matches with any of the values defined in the Critical Severity text box, then Applications Manager displays the status of the hardware device as Critical. The values defined by default are failed, error, failure, nonRecoverable, criticalUpper, criticalLower, nonRecoverableLower and critical.
• Warning Severity: If the status matches with any of the values defined in the Warning Severity text box, then Applications Manager displays the status of the hardware device as Warning. The values defined by default are degraded, warning, nonCritical, nonCriticalUpper, nonRecoverableUpper and nonCriticalLower.
• Clear Severity: If the status matches with any of the values defined in the Clear Severity text box, then Applications Manager displays the status of the hardware device as clear. The value defined by default is 'ok'.

Note: If the status of the device does not match with any of the values defined in the severity text box, the device status is displayed as unknown. Status values defined within the severity text boxes are comma-separated and case-insensitive.

Hardware Device-level Configuration:

Hardware Monitoring option available under Host Details section on the right hand side of the page will allow you to opt for the various hardware components you want to monitor. This operation can also be done using the Performance Polling option under the Settings tab which will globally configure the hardware stats.

Upon configuring the above settings, you will be able to monitor hardware devices for the selected hardware components along with their corresponding health status. Following are the possible health status shown:

• If a component is functioning normally, the status indicator is green.
• The status indicator changes to orange or red if a system component violates a performance threshold or is not functioning properly. Generally, an orange indicator signifies degraded performance.
• A red indicator signifies that a component stopped operating or exceeded the highest threshold.
• If the status is blank, then the health monitoring service cannot determine the status of the component.

The following are metrics monitored pertaining to the hardware of Dell and HP servers:

Note: Currently, hardware performance monitoring is supported only in SNMP and WMI monitoring mode.

Category	Attribute	Description	Hardware Device
			DELL	HP
Temperature	Sensor	The name of the temperature sensor.
	Temperature Reading (deg C)	The current /present temperature reading.
	Status	The temperature status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Fan	Sensor	Name of the fan sensor.
	Fan Speed (RPM)	The fan speed values displayed in RPM.
	Status	The fan status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Power	Sensor	Name of the power supply.
	Reading (Watts)	The power supply reading values displayed in Watts.
	Status	The power status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Voltages	Sensor	Name of the voltage supply.
	Reading (Volts)	The voltage reading values displayed in Volts.
	Status	The voltage status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Battery	Sensor	Name of the Battery sensor.
	Status	The battery status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Memory	Sensor	Name of the Memory sensor.
	Memory Device Type	The type of memory device
	Size (MB)	The amount of memory currently installed in MB.
	Status	The memory status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Disk	Sensor	Identifies the disk's label
	Device Name	The device name configured for the disk
	Size (MB)	The allocated size in MB
	Status	The disk status - Critical, Warning, Clear.
Array	Sensor	The name of the array disk
	Bus protocol	The bus type of the array disk
	Size (MB)	The amount in MB of the used space on the array disk.
	Status	The array status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Chassis	Sensor	The user-assigned chassis name of the chassis.
	Model	The system model type for this chassis
	Status	The chassis status - Critical, Warning, Clear
Processor	Sensor	The location name of the processor device status probe
	Processor Brand	The brand of the processor device.
	Processor Current Speed	The current speed of the processor device in MHz
	Processor Core Count	The number of processor cores detected for the processor device.
	Status	The processor status - Critical, Warning, Clear.

Configuration

This tab displays the configuration details of the Novell monitor. However, this is supported only in SNMP mode.