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Nagios Availability

Topics marked with * relate to HQ Enterprise-only features.

This screen mimics Nagios' TM "Service Detail" screen: It provides an overview of the current status of the monitored services and hosts. The screen automatically refreshes every minute.

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Tasks on This Screen

On this screen, users can refresh the display of availability data.

To refresh the list:

  • Click at the top right.

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Sections on This Screen

This screen displays the following information for each service for which Nagios checks the availability:

  • Host: The box that the script is checking (as opposed to the box where Nagios is installed)
  • Service: The Nagios service that was checked. (Nagios defines a service as "one of the central objects in the monitoring logic. Services are associated with hosts and can be:
    • Attributes of a host (CPU load, disk usage, uptime, etc.)
    • Services provided by the host (HTTP, POP3, FTP, SSH, etc.)
    • Other things associated with the host (DNS records, etc.)" Source)
  • Status: The exit status (displayed as "Return Code" in HQ metrics) of the Nagios script
  • Last Check: The time the check was most recently executed
  • Event Log: Output of the check script

Color Coding

This screen assigns a color to each listed service.

Color What It Means
Pink Service is down
Yellow The service has triggered an alert, based on the Nagios threshold that the user sets in Nagios
Green Service is OK

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Navigating via the Masthead Menu

Main screens in Hyperic contain a masthead menu. Users can navigate to the following parts of HQ using this menu:

Dashboard Displays the Dashboard, the starting screen in HQ, which displays information about resource health, recent alerts, recently performed auto-discovery scan, and control actions
Resources Click the menu name to access either Browse (takes users to the Browse Resources screen, where they can locate and navigate through information about all managed resources), Currently Down (takes users to the Currently Down screen, where they can look at all managed resources that are unavailable), Nagios Availability (available only when Nagios is installed), or Recently Viewed (provides a drop-down list of resources that the user has recently viewed. Selecting one of those resources takes the user to the Current Health screen for the resource).
Analyze Click the menu name to access Reporting * (presents the Reporting screen, from which reports can be generated), Alert Center (presents the Alert Center, which displays a deployment wide alert summary), or Event Center (presents the Event Center, which displays a deployment-wide event summary).
Administration Takes users (with "Administer Hyperic HQ Server Configuration" permissions) to the Administration screen, where they can manage the system-wide settings
Search
The Search box in the upper right of the Masthead allows you to search for HQ resources of any type and HQ users.

Search results appear after four characters are entered in the text box. Results will include the first 10 platforms, servers, services, and groups whose name includes the search string.

Double-click a resource in the list to navigate to its Resource page.

The masthead also displays the two most recently triggered alerts. Users can click the alert's time to be taken to the alert detail.

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Next Steps

View trends in the "Return Code" metric and correlate it with the event log in the "Current Health" screen

Related Information

An explanation of Nagios Data in HQ

Return to the HQ Portal Reference.

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