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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Tool Bar

The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor tool bar provides quick access to the following:

Dashboards

This panel contains various dashboards that present the status of your resources from various perspectives. For example, the Global Scan dashboard presents a comprehensive view of your infrastructure, and allows you to drill down by system group, system, or alert status. Default dashboards include the following:

  • Global Scan
  • Resource Scan
  • SLAs
  • Applications
  • Network
  • All Elements
  • All Services
  • Custom Example
  • Map

Administrators and users can also create custom dashboards, built from component widgets, that provide a specific view not provided out of the box.

For more information about using the Dashboards panel, see Overseeing Your Infrastructure.

My Portal

By default, when users log into Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, the first view they are presented with is the My Portal panel. The My Portal panel gives quick access to basic Uptime Infrastructure Monitor functions and to saved reports. The My Portal panel is divided into the following sections:

  • Assistance
  • My Preferences
  • Latest up.time Uptime Articlesup.time
  • Uptime Information
  • My Alerts
  • Saved Reports

For more information about using the My Portal panel, see My Portal.

My Infrastructure

The My Infrastructure panel provides an inventory of your resources. You can view information about systems and their monitoring status. From the My Infrastructure panel, you can add and view:

  • Systems
  • Groups
  • Applications
  • Service Level Agreements
  • Views

For more information about using the My Infrastructure panel, see Managing Your Infrastructure.

Services

The Services panel enables you to manage and configure services, which are provided by an application to perform a specific task. Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitors both services and applications to ensure that performance and availability are maintained.

In the Services panel, you can manage and configure the following:

  • service instances and service groups
  • Alert Profiles and Action Profiles
  • host checks
  • topological dependencies
  • scheduled maintenance

For more information about using the Services panel, see Using Service Monitors.

Users

The Users panel enables you manage all users, user groups, Notification Groups and their associated permissions. You can view, create, edit, and delete the following:

  • users
  • user groups
  • notification groups
  • user roles

For more information about using the Users panel, see User Management.

Reports

The Reports panel enables you to manage and create detailed, custom reports on the performance and availability of the resources in your enterprise.

Using the Reports panel, you can:

  • generate a report and schedule when you want it to be generated
  • select how and where you would like the report delivered

For more information about using the Reports panel, see Using Reports.

Config

The Config panel enables you to configure the following:

  • Uptime Infrastructure Monitor license information and the license key
  • archive policies
  • mail servers
  • Monitoring Periods
  • remote reporting instances
  • user authentication

You can also generate problem reports and edit some Uptime Infrastructure Monitor system configuration options from the Config panel. For more information about using the Config panel, see Configuring and Managing Uptime Infrastructure Monitor.

As you enter text in the Search up.timeUptime field, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor configuration actions, as well as the display names of Elements, are displayed.

For example, initially entering the string “serv” displays the Add Service Monitor and Add Service Group commands. The string could also display Element names such as "QA Server 1" and "Active Directory". In the latter example, the match would occur if the Element’s host name were "AD-Server".

For all Elements, the string entered is compared with the Element’s host name, display name, architecture, and custom fields.

System List

The system list (Syslist) is a popup window that contains the following information:

  • the display names in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor and the host names of systems in your environment, arranged in alphabetical order
  • the name of the group to which, if any, the system belongs

You access the system list by clicking the Syslist icon in the top-right corner of the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Web interface. The Syslist is also a tool for quick navigation within the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Web interface. Each display name is a hyperlink. Click a display name to view the information about the system in the System Information subpanel.

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Understanding Retained Data
Understanding Retained Data

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor enables you to save some or all of the metrics that its monitors collect to the DataStore. You can use the retained data to generate a Service Metrics report (see Service Monitor Metrics Report) or a Service Metrics graph.

The data that you can retain varies from monitor to monitor. For example, with the Windows Service Check monitor you can save the Service Status and Response Time metrics. With the Exchange monitor you can save all Web Mail and SMTP metrics.

You can save data to the DataStore by clicking the Save for Graphing checkbox on a monitor template.