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Description

Status

The status of the alert or task is unknown.

The status of a task that is set to run at a later time is Unknown.

Unknown

A task was prevented from continuing or completing; for example, this could indicate a
canceled file upload.

Disabled

24.4 Using the Dashboard screen

24.4.1 About the Dashboard

The Dashboard provides a graphical representation of the general health status of several managed
resources in your data center. From the Dashboard, you can immediately see the areas that need
your attention. For direct access to resources needing your attention, select the resource name for
a filtered view.

Each time you log in to the appliance, the Dashboard is the first screen you see. To view the
dashboard graphs, select Dashboard from the

main menu

.

Only those resources you are authorized to view or manage appear on the Dashboard.

See

“How to interpret the Dashboard graphs” (page 176)

to learn more about the resource health

and capacity information that appears on the Dashboard.

24.4.2 Dashboard screen details

Hover your pointing device on a graph slice to view the count of resource instances being
represented by that slice. Hovering you pointing device on a graph slice changes the text and
count displayed in the center of the graph.

The following graphs appear on the Dashboard:

Description

Graph name

The Status graphs summarize the health status of several resources.

The number displayed next to the resource name indicates the total number of instances of that
resource that are known to the appliance. To learn more about a resource, click the resource
name to display its main screen.

In Status graphs, the dark gray color indicates the number of resources that are not reporting
information because they are either disabled or are not being managed by the appliance.

To filter the view of a resource based on its status, click the status icon.

To learn more about health status and severity icons, see

“Icon descriptions” (page 62)

.

Status

The default view of the Servers with profiles graph reports the count of server hardware instances
with assigned server profiles. If the graph is not solid blue, hover your pointing device on the
light gray graph slice to see the count of servers without profiles.

Servers with profiles
for Server
Hardware

The default view of the Populated blade bays graph reports the count of server hardware instances
in all managed enclosure bays. If the graph is not solid blue, hover your pointing device on the
light gray graph slice to see the count of empty blade bays.

Populated blade
bays for Enclosures

24.4.3 How to interpret the Dashboard graphs

Dashboard graph colors provide a quick way to visually interpret the data being reported.

Table 9 Dashboard graph colors

Indication

Color

A healthy status

Green

An event has occurred that might require your attention

Yellow

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Monitoring data center status, health, and performance

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