This page last changed on Jul 20, 2009 by mmcgarry.
Viewing Server Inventory
Topics marked with * relate to HQ Enterprise-only features.
This inventory screen allows users to view and manage a selected server. The screen displays a server's user-specified properties, the services hosted by the server, groups containing the server, and the server's monitoring and control configuration. The server'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 server. Some server 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 server in relationship to its platform and hosted services:
- Click
in the upper left.
The platform that hosts this server is displayed at the bottom of the map, and above it is displayed the server. Above the server are displayed all the services the server hosts. All resource names are bolded and the resource type is displayed just below in smaller type. From there you can navigate to the platform or any one of the hosted services by clicking its name.
To change the server'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 server's name and description:
- In the "General Properties" section, click the top
and proceed to the "Edit" screen.
To create a new service:
- In the Tools menu, click New Service and proceed to the "Add a Service" screen.
(If this server was auto-discovered, users cannot manually add this new or any service to it.)
To add this server to Dashboard favorites:
- In the Tools menu, select 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 change the install path of the server:
- In the "General Properties" section, click the bottom
and proceed to the "Edit" screen.
To add this server to a group:
- In "Groups containing this resource," click
and proceed to the "Add to Groups" screen.
To remove this server from a group:
- In "Groups containing this resource," check the group and click
.
To change the any of the server's configuration (log- and configuration-tracking, control actions, etc.):
- In "Configuration Properties," click
and proceed to the "Edit" screen.
To enable or disable auto-discovery of this server's services:
- 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
- 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 Services: The total number of service instances auto-discovered on this server
- Services By Type: The total number of distinct service types auto-discovered on the server (a categorization of the Total Services)
Services
This section lists the services discovered on this server. (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 server is a member. To view a group listed here, click the group's name.
Configuration Properties
This section displays the shared, monitoring, and control configuration properties of the server.
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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