This page last changed on Jul 20, 2009 by mmcgarry.
Viewing Platform Inventory
Topics marked with * relate to HQ Enterprise-only features.
This inventory screen allows users to view and manage a selected platform. The screen displays a server's user-specified and network properties, the platform services hosted by the platform, groups containing the platform, and the platform's monitoring and control configuration. The platform's name is at the rightmost of the path listed at the top of the screen.
 | Not all screen elements described in this wiki page are available for all instances of a platform. Some platform types simply have more or fewer data elements associated with them. |
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Tasks Available on This Screen
On this screen, users can do (or at least start) the following tasks:
To view a map representation of the servers the platform is hosting:
- Click
in the upper left.
The platform is displayed at the bottom of the map, and above it are displayed all the servers it hosts. All resource names are bolded and the resource type is displayed just below in smaller type. From there you can navigate to any one of the platform's hosted servers by clicking its name.
To change the platform's owner:
- In the middle near the top of the screen, click Change next to the listed owner and proceed to the "Edit" screen.
To change the platform's name and description:
- In the "General Properties" section, click the top
and proceed to the "Edit" screen.
To change the platform's network properties:
- In the "Type and Network Properties" section, click the top
and proceed to the "Edit" screen.
To create a new server:
- In the Tools Menu in the upper right, click New Server and proceed to the "Add a Server" screen.
(If this platform was auto-discovered, users cannot manually add this new or any server to it.)
To create a new platform service:
- In the Tools Menu in the upper right, click New Platform Service and proceed to the "Add a Service" screen.
(If this platform was auto-discovered, users cannot manually add this new or any service to it.)
To start a file scan:
- In the Tools Menu in the upper right, select New Auto-Discovery.
To add this platform to Dashboard favorites:
- In the Tools menu select the Add to My Dashboard Favorites.
- In HQ Enterprise 4.2 and later, if you have edit permissions for multiple dashboards, the Tools menu will instead have an Add to Dashboard Favorites option. Select the option to view a list of dashboards for which you have edit permissions. You can select one or more dashboards, and click Add to add the resource to the favorites portlet of each.
To enable all the alerts assigned to this platform:
- In the Tools Menu in the upper right, select Enable all alerts on this agent.
To disable all the alerts assigned to this platform:
- In the Tools Menu in the upper right, select Disable all alerts on this agent.
To add this platform to a group:
- In "Groups containing this resource," click
and proceed to the "Add to Groups" screen.
To remove this platform from a group:
- In "Groups containing this resource," check the group and click
.
To change the any of the platform's configuration (for example, log- and configuration-tracking):
- In "Configuration Properties," click
and proceed to the "Edit" screen.
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Sections on This Screen
Top Level
The top of the page displays high-level identifying information for the server being viewed. The data fields displayed here depend on the server type.
General Properties
This section lists the properties the user specified when creating or last modifying the server:
- Description: A description of the server
- Location: The physical location of the platform hardware
- Resource type: The server type
- Date Created: The date the server was added to the HQ inventory
- Date Modified, Modified By: The date the server properties were last modified and the user who modified them
- Install Path: The path where this server is installed
- Host Platform: The platform that hosts this server
- Total Servers: The total number of server instances auto-discovered on this server
- Total By Type: The total number of distinct server types auto-discovered on the server (a categorization of the Total Services)
Type & Network Properties
This section lists identifying network information for the platform. All these values are initially auto-discovered and can be edited afterwards.
- Platform Type: The type of platform (This value cannot be changed.)
- Agent Connection: The IP address:port pair that the HQ Server will use to connect to the HQ Agent on the platform device.
- Fully Qualified Domain Name: The platform's FQDN
- IP Address, MAC Address, Netmask: One or more sets of these identifiers for the platform. There is at a minimum one set for the loopback (local) IP address — 127.0.0.1 — and then additional sets for each network interface on the device.
Servers
This section lists the servers discovered on this platform. (If the platform was auto-discovered (and not manually added, which is rare), users cannot manually add servers to the platform; they must be auto-discovered also. Users can delete from the list, however, if they don't like HQ's auto-discovery results.) To view a server listed here, click the server's name. Each server's availability is also indicated.
Services
This section lists the plaftorm services discovered on this platform. (For the most part, resources are auto-discovered, and therefore users cannot manually add to a list of such resources. Users can delete from the list, however, if they don't like HQ's auto-discovery results.) To view a service listed here, click the service's name. Each service's availability is also indicated.
Groups Containing This Resource
This section lists the groups of which this platform is a member. To view a group listed here, click the group's name.
Configuration Properties
This section displays the monitoring configuration for this platform. Platforms do not have shared configuration properties. HQ often provides reasonable defaults for the configuration properties, but HQ users must provide information specific to their environment.
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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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