HP Insight Control Software for Linux - Manual (Page 6)

11 Understanding tasks and task results.....................................................................125
11.1 Task results overview..................................................................................................................125
11.2 Understanding task results..........................................................................................................125
11.3 Task results page..........................................................................................................................125
11.4 Common task results...................................................................................................................127
11.4.1 Task instance area................................................................................................................127
11.4.1.1 Stopping a task ...........................................................................................................128
11.4.2 View control options and summary status area..................................................................128
11.4.2.1 View printable report button.......................................................................................128
11.4.2.2 Rerun non-complete targets button.............................................................................129
11.4.2.3 Parameters button........................................................................................................129
11.4.3 Operation details log...........................................................................................................129
11.5 SIM standard task results format................................................................................................130
11.5.1 Summary status and target status area...............................................................................131
11.5.1.1 Stop button in the target status area............................................................................132
11.5.1.2 Log button in the target status area.............................................................................133
11.5.2 Target details table...............................................................................................................133
11.6 Scalable task results format.........................................................................................................134
11.6.1 Operations table...................................................................................................................135
11.6.2 Operation controls...............................................................................................................136
11.6.3 Operation target details.......................................................................................................136
12 Installing and setting up virtual machines.............................................................139
12.1 Installing virtual hosts.................................................................................................................139
12.2 Registering the virtual host with HP Insight Control virtual machine management.................140
12.3 Creating and installing virtual guests.........................................................................................141
12.3.1 Guidelines for configuring a VMware ESX or VMware ESXi virtual guest........................141
12.3.2 Guidelines for configuring a Xen virtual guest...................................................................142
12.4 Obtaining virtual guest and virtual host associations.................................................................143
12.5 Establishing monitoring for virtual hosts and virtual guests......................................................144
13 Managing Insight Control for Linux collections for monitoring...........................147
13.1 Introduction to collections...........................................................................................................147
13.2 Populating a collection.................................................................................................................148
13.3 Adding servers and switches to an existing Insight Control for Linux collection......................148
13.4 Removing a managed system or switch from an Insight Control for Linux collection..............149
13.5 Removing a management hub.....................................................................................................150
14 Using graphical tools to monitor managed systems............................................151
14.1 HP Insight Control for Linux system monitoring overview.......................................................151
14.1.1 Collecting metrics through a management processor.........................................................152
14.1.2 Collecting metrics through OS agents.................................................................................152
14.1.3 Collecting events with syslog...........................................................................................152
14.2 Nagios overview..........................................................................................................................152
14.2.1 Nagios documentation........................................................................................................153
14.2.2 Launching Nagios................................................................................................................154
14.3 Using Nagios...............................................................................................................................156
14.3.1 Viewing network health......................................................................................................157
14.3.2 Viewing Nagios hosts and services.....................................................................................158
14.3.3 Displaying hosts and services that are experiencing problems..........................................160
14.3.4 Displaying network bandwidth and system use.................................................................161
14.3.5 Gathering and displaying system environment data..........................................................164
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