Reports for Performance and Analysis

The following reports enable you to visualize the overall performance of a system in the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor environment, as well as analyze the information to determine the cause of problems with those systems:

Resource Usage Report

The Resource Usage report tracks the usage of system resources and performance information for systems over a given period of time. In addition to the usage information reported on, the report displays the following information:

Creating a Resource Usage Report

To create a Resource Usage report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Resource Usage.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report.  For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select one or more of the following report options:
    • Resource Utilization
      The average and maximum amount of CPU and memory use.
    • CPU Performance Graph
      Tracks the performance of a system’s CPU over a specified time period. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Multi-CPU
      The percentage of total CPU time used on systems with more than one CPU.

      If you find the report’s rendered graph too dense due to a large number of CPUs, alternatively generate a Multi-CPU Usage graph while including fewer CPUs.

    • Network I/O
      The average amount of traffic, measured in megabytes per second, that is traveling through the network interfaces. The report also identifies bursts in network activity that may occur over short intervals. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Network Errors
      Any errors that have occurred with the physical network interface. The errors can be, for example, collisions or handshake errors between a system and a switch.
    • TCP Retransmits
      Any network services that may not be completing properly because of undue network or system load. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Free Memory
      The amount of free memory available to the system. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Page Scanning Statistics
      The number of file system pages scanned by the page scanning daemon. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Disk Statistics
      The following statistics for each disk on a system:
      • percentage of the disk that is busy
      • average queue length
      • number of reads and writes per second
      • number of blocks accessed per second
      • average wait time, in seconds
      • average service time, in seconds

      If the system for which you are creating a report for has multiple disks, a graph for each disk on the system is generated.

    • File System Capacity
      The amount of free disk space on the system. This information appears as a graph in the report.
    • Workload (Top 10 - CPU)
      The top 10 processes that are consuming CPU time, grouped by user ID, group ID, and process name. This information appears as a graph in the report.

      This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

    • Workload (Top 10 - Memsize)
      The top 10 processes that consume system memory, based on the total memory size of the processes - including virtual pages and shared memory. This information appears as a graph in the report.

      This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

    • Workload (Top 10 - RSS)
      The top 10 processes that are consuming physical memory (in KB), as measured by the run-set size (RSS) of the process. This information appears as a graph in the report.

      This graph does not appear when you generate this report for a VMware ESX system.

    • Network Device Interfaces
      The Resource Usage statistics for all Network Device interfaces associated with the selected Elements. The following statistics are included:

      Port Namethe name of the port
      Typethe type of port
      Usagethe percentage of the port's maximum throughput that was used by inbound and outbound packets
      In Ratethe average throughput of inbound packets, in Mbps
      In Usagethe percentage of the port's maximum throughput that was used by inbound packets
      Out Ratethe average throughput of outbound packets, in Mbps
      Out Usage %the percentage of the port’s maximum throughput that was used by outbound packets
      Errors #/secthe average number of errors per second
      Discards #/secthe average number of packets discarded per second
      Statusthe port status

      Multiple historical graphs are provided for this report including:

      • Total Rate (Mbps)
      • Usage (%)
      • In Rate (Mbps)
      • In Usage (%)
      • Out Rate (Mbps)
      • Out Usage (%)
    Optionally, click Select All to generate a report on all of the options listed above.
  5. If you selected more than one report option and plan to report on more than one system, you can optionally click the Group report options by system checkbox.
    Selecting this option combines the metrics for each system for which you are generating the report.
  6. To generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific systems, select the systems from the List of Systems.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. If you want to save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Resource Hot Spot Report

The Resource Hot Spot report is a key checkpoint report that allows you to quickly identify servers and network devices across your enterprise that may be having performance issues, so you can immediately start working to identify what may be causing them.

The Resource Hot Spot report helps you answer the following types of questions:

The resource consumer summaries rank physical and virtual servers as well as network devices in various resource-related categories, allowing you to correlate top-ranking consumers across categories to identify specific problems. The summaries are populated irrespective of whether critical outages occurred, or the infrastructure experienced 100% uptime; this allows you to identify potentially strained resources before they enter warning-level states.

The report is also a valuable investigative tool that helps you quickly focus on the parts of your infrastructure that require troubleshooting. The report can be configured to include full listings of threshold-violating servers and network devices based on key resource-usage metrics such as memory and CPU usage, port throughput caps, or packet-issue counts. The high, low, and average for these metrics are presented, along with historical graphs for offending metrics; these details can help you confirm whether sustained resource strain, or wild swings are caused by resourcing deficits or configuration errors.

The Resource Hot Spot report is also a key starter report, as it is automatically created and saved for new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations. This report provides a summary of top resource users for the week. By default, a PDF version of the report is emailed to the SysAdmin user group.

The following are portions of an example Resource Hot Spot report: 

  

 

The Resource Hot Spot report is a default report that is automatically created and saved for weekly generation on new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations, beginning the third day after Uptime Infrastructure Monitor was first installed.

 

Resource Hot Spot Report Details

The following information comprises the Resource Hot Spot report:

Servers
Top ServersOf the servers included in the report, the top five resource consuming servers in terms of CPU, memory, swap usage, and disk usage. These servers are listed regardless of whether they violated resource usage thresholds set during report configuration; if your entire infrastructure is meeting your resource usage criteria for the report, the top-five servers are still included in the summary for each category.
CPUThe percentage of CPU capacity used during the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
MemThe percentage of memory used by processes for the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period. 
Swap UsageThe percentage of memory swap space used during the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
Disk BusyThe percentage of time the server disk is handling transactions in progress for the defined time period. In the Top Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
Servers with High CPU Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average CPU usage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating CPU usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with High Memory Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average memory usage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating memory usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with High Swap Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average memory swap space usage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating memory swap space usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with High Disk Busy

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average disk processing for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating disk activity percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices
Top Network DevicesOf the network-device type Elements included in the report, the five most inefficient network devices in terms of in rate, out rate, error count, and discards. These network devices are listed regardless of whether they violated throughput or error thresholds set during report configuration; if all of your network devices are passing the criteria for the report, the top-five network devices are still included in the summary for each category.
In Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by inbound packets during the defined time period.
Out Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by outbound packets during the defined time period.
Errors per secThe average number of errors encountered per second, on a per port basis, during the defined time period.
Discards per secThe average number of packets discarded per second, on a per port basis, during the defined time period.
Network Devices with High In Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average in-rate percentage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating in-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with High Out Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average out-rate percentage for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating out-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with High Errors

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average error-per-second count for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating error count (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with High Discards

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average discarded-packet count for the time period exceeded the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the violating metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating discarded packet count (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics

Creating a Resource Hot Spot Report

To create a Resource Hot Spot report, do the following:
  1. On the Reports tab, click Resource Hot Spot, which is found in the Performance and Analysis section of the reports tree panel.
  2. In the date and time range section, select a reporting window. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Report Options section, configure which components comprise your report:
    • top-five lists for servers or network devices in various resource-usage categories
    • comprehensive lists of Elements that are experiencing performance issues in various resource-usage categories
    • for the Element list, the threshold used to determine which are experiencing performance issues
    By default, the Resource Hot Spot report is configured to display both servers and network devices in the Top Resource Consumers Summary, and list server-type Elements that violate various resource-usage thresholds. For information on these report components and thresholds, see Resource Hot Spot Report Details.
  5. Determine which Elements are included in the resource hot-spot assessment by selecting Infrastructure Groups, Element Views, or individual Elements from the following sections:
    • List of Groups
    • List of Views
    • List of Elements
  6. Continue with the desired report generation process:

Resource Cold Spot Report

The Resource Cold Spot report is a key checkpoint report that provides resource utilization less than the specified metrics, or rather the inverse of the Resource Hot Spot report.

The Resource Cold Spot report helps you answer the following types of questions:

The resource consumer summaries rank physical and virtual servers as well as network devices in various resource-related categories, allowing you to correlate bottom-ranking consumers across categories to identify availability.

The report is also a valuable investigative tool that helps you quickly focus on the parts of your infrastructure that require troubleshooting. The report can be configured to include full listings of servers and network devices based on key resource-usage metrics such as memory and CPU usage, port throughput caps, or packet-issue counts. The high, low, and average for these metrics are presented, along with historical graphs for offending metrics.

The Resource Cold Spot report is also a key starter report, as it is automatically created and saved for new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations. This report provides a summary of bottom resource users for the week. By default, a PDF version of the report is emailed to the SysAdmin user group.

 

The Resource Cold Spot report is a default report that is automatically created and saved for weekly generation on new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations, beginning the third day after Uptime Infrastructure Monitor was first installed.

 

Resource Cold Spot Report Details

The following information comprises the Resource Cold Spot report:

Servers
Bottom ServersOf the servers included in the report, the bottom five resource-consuming servers in terms of CPU and memory. These servers are listed regardless of whether they violated resource usage thresholds set during report configuration; if your entire infrastructure is meeting your resource usage criteria for the report, the bottom-five servers are still included in the summary for each category.
CPUThe percentage of CPU capacity used during the defined time period. In the Bottom Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period.
MemThe percentage of memory used by processes for the defined time period. In the Bottom Servers summary, this is an average value for the time period. 
Servers with Low CPU Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average CPU usage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating CPU usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Servers with Low Memory Usage

A listing of all servers included in the report whose average memory usage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each server's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating memory usage percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices
Bottom Network DevicesOf the network-device type Elements included in the report, the five least inefficient network devices in terms of in rate, out rate, error count, and discards. These network devices are listed regardless of whether they violated throughput or error thresholds set during report configuration; if all of your network devices are passing the criteria for the report, the bottom-five network devices are still included in the summary for each category.
In Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by inbound packets during the defined time period.
Out Rate %The percentage of the network device's maximum throughput, on a per port basis, that was used by outbound packets during the defined time period.
Network Devices with Low In Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average in-rate percentage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating in-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics
Network Devices with Low Out Rate

A listing of all network devices included in the report whose average out-rate percentage for the time period was less than the threshold defined during report configuration. Each network device's entry includes the following information to help correlate the metric with other metrics or events:

  • the violating out-rate percentage (highlighted)
  • historical values for this metric, graphed over the defined time period
  • the minimum and maximum values for the metric during the time period
  • minimum, maximum, and average values for other resource usage metrics

Creating a Resource Cold Spot Report

To create a Resource Cold Spot report, do the following:
  1. On the Reports tab, click Resource Cold Spot, which is found in the Performance and Analysis section of the reports tree panel.
  2. In the date and time range section, select a reporting window. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Report Options section, configure which components comprise your report:
    • bottom-five lists for servers or network devices in various resource-usage categories
    • comprehensive lists of Elements that are experiencing performance issues in various resource-usage categories
    • for the Element list, the threshold used to determine which are experiencing performance issues
    By default, the Resource Cold Spot report is configured to display both servers and network devices in the Bottom Resource Consumers Summary, and list server-type Elements that violate various resource-usage thresholds. For information on these report components and thresholds, see Resource Cold Spot Report Details.
  5. Determine which Elements are included in the resource cold-spot assessment by selecting Infrastructure Groups, Element Views, or individual Elements from the following sections:
    • List of Groups
    • List of Views
    • List of Elements
  6. Continue with the desired report generation process:

Multi-System CPU Report

The Multi-System CPU report charts and compares the CPU performance statistics from multiple systems in your environment. These statistics indicate whether the systems are exhibiting balanced behavior, or if processes are forced off CPUs in certain circumstances.

Creating a Multi-System CPU Report

To create a Multi-System CPU report, do the following:

  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Multi-System CPU.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report.  For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  5. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  6. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  7. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  8. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

CPU Utilization Summary Report

The CPU Utilization Summary report generates a tabular summary of the CPU and memory consumption over a specific time period. Specifically, this report returns the following information:

Creating a CPU Utilization Summary Report

To create a CPU Utilization Summary report, do the following:

  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click CPU Utilization Summary.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. Select one of the following options from the Sort by dropdown list to sort the results that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor returns:
    • Average CPU (the default)
    • Hostname
    • # of CPUs
    • CPU Speed
    • Maximum CPU
    • Minimum CPU
    • Average Memory
    • Maximum Memory
    • Minimum Memory
    • Average Page Scan
    • Maximum Page Scan
    • Minimum Page Scan
  4. Select Ascending or Descending from the Sort Direction dropdown list.
  5. Optionally, in the Minimum sort value for inclusion field enter a value for the sort threshold.
    The report displays items from the Sort By list, whose value is equal to or greater than the value in this field. For example, if you chose # of CPUs from the Sort by list and set this field to 2, the report only displays systems with two or more CPUs.
  6. Select one or more of the following CPU statistics at which the report looks:
    • sys
      The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out system processes.
    • usr
      The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out user processes.
    • wio
      The percentage of CPU time that could be handling processes, but which is waiting for I/O operations to complete.
  7. Select one or more of the following statistics on which to report:
    • CPU
      The percentage of CPU resources that are used.
    • Memory
      The percentage of system memory that is used.
    • Page Scans
      The number of page scans per second.

      The statistic you select must match the sort criteria that you selected in step 4. For example, if your sort criteria is Average CPU you must also select the CPU statistic. Otherwise, an error message appears when you try to generate the report.
  8. Optionally, in the Architectures to exclude field enter either the name of a system architecture or a regular expression that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor uses to ignore certain system architectures when generating the report.
    For example, if you want to exclude all Solaris systems from the report, enter SunOS in the field.

    Uptime Infrastructure Monitor determines the architecture of a system by checking the output of the uname -a command on UNIX or Linux, or by analyzing one or both of the following Windows registry keys:

    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\
    WindowsNT\\CurrentVersion
    HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\\Software\\Microsoft\\
    Windows\\CurrentVersion
  9. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  10. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  11. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  12. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  13. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

CPU Utilization Ratio Report

The CPU Utilization Ratio report charts, in a table, the ratio of the percentage of CPU usage over a specified period of time. The ratio is derived by dividing the percentage of system time that is used by the percentage of user time. For example, if the amount of system time that is used is 22.12% and the amount of user time is 5.2%, then the CPU utilization ratio is 4.25.

This report contains the following information:

Creating a CPU Utilization Ratio Report

To generate a CPU Utilization Ratio report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click CPU Utilization Ratio.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally, enter a value in the Highlight ratios over threshold field.
    Any ratios that exceed the value in this field are highlighted in the report. For example, if you enter 2 and a server returns a ratio of 3.5%, that ratio is highlighted.
  5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Wait I/O Report

The Wait I/O report enables you to determine the amount of time that processes spend waiting on I/O from a system device.

The Wait I/O report contains the following information:

Creating a Wait I/O Report

To create a Wait I/O report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Wait I/O.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally, enter a value in the Highlight average WIO over threshold field.
    Any system with an average Wait I/O percentage that exceeds the value that you enter in this field is highlighted in red in the report. As well, the following text appears in the header of the report:
    Systems with an Average Wait I/O over x.x% are highlighted
    Where x.x is the percentage that you entered in this field.
  5. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  8. Select a report generation option.See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

Inventory Report

The Inventory report provides details about the composition of your monitored infrastructure by operating system, across physical and virtual Elements. The report contents can optionally be organized by group, and can include individual Element entries.

These different reporting options allow you to confidently assess your inventory from a variety of perspectives, and help you answer the following types of questions:

Inventory Report Information

Because the Inventory report displays all monitored Elements, the report is intended for system administrators. Non-administrative Uptime Infrastructure Monitor users who do not have permission to view all Elements cannot view complete inventory listings.

The following information can be displayed in the Inventory Report when you select Show Operating System Summary:

Operating System Summary

unique breakdown of physical and virtual Elements, with totals by OS, and component totals for OS versions

Physical Elements

the total number of systems-type Elements (i.e., not network devices, Applications, and SLAs)

this total includes virtual machines that are not managed by a VMware vCenter server Element (e.g., LPARs or VMware VMs manually added to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, and not through vSync)

Virtual Elements

the total number of Elements running on VM instances (i.e., VM instances with their own UUID)

Operating System

the detected operating system, including VMware environments

Version

the detected operating system version; build version details are listed if available

Element Name

the Element’s host name

Architecture

the detected hardware platform type on which the Element’s CPUs are running

Agent Version

if applicable, the version of the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Agent that is running on the Element

Added Date

the date the Element was added to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitored inventory

Group

the Element’s Infrastructure group name

The following information can be displayed in the Inventory Report when you select Show Element Type Summary:

Element Type Summary

unique breakdown of physical and virtual Elements by type, with when the element was added, monitoring status, which group contains each element, and component totals for each Element type

Agent Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agents

vSphere Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as vSpheres

Virtual Machine Agentless Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agentless Virtual Machines
VMware vCenter Server Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as VMware vCenter Servers
Network Device Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Network Devices

Element Name

the Element’s host name

OS Type

the detected operating system, including VMware environments

Added Date

the date the Element was added to Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitored inventory

Monitored

whether the Element is monitored (True) or not monitored (False)
Group

the Element’s Infrastructure group name

The following information can be displayed in the Inventory Report when you select Show Monitor Summary:

Monitor Summary

unique breakdown of physical and virtual Elements by type, with element name, assigned Service Monitor, whether the Element is monitored and for what period of time, whether there are associated Alert and Action Profiles, and component totals for each Element Service Monitor

Agent Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agents

vSphere Elements

contains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as vSpheres

Virtual Machine Agentless Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Agentless Virtual Machines
VMware vCenter Server Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as VMware vCenter Servers
Network Device Elementscontains Elements identified by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor as Network Devices

Element Name

the Element’s host name

Service Monitor

the name of the service monitor assigned to this Element

Monitored

whether the Element is monitored (True) or not monitored (False)

Notification

whether notifications are issued for this Element's service monitor (Yes) or notifications are not issued (No) regardless of status or interval

Monitoring Period

the Element's service monitor time period at which Uptime Infrastructure Monitor sends alerts

Alert Profile

whether the Element has an associated alert profile (Yes) or not (No)

Alert Profiles are templates that tell Uptime Infrastructure Monitor how to react to various alerts that are generated by service checks.

Action Profile

whether the Element has an associated action profile (Yes) or not (No)

Action Profiles are templates that direct Uptime Infrastructure Monitor when it encounters a problem on a monitored system.

 

Creating an Inventory Report

To create an Inventory report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Inventory Report.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally select the Don’t List Individual Elements check box to restrict the report to inventory summaries.
  5. Optionally select the Group by Selected System Groups check box to organize the report by group.
  6. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific Elements in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  9. Select a report generation option.See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  11. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

Service Monitor Metrics Report

You can configure the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor service monitors to retain data, which is saved to the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataStore for later use. The Service Monitor Metrics report visualizes the retained data in a line chart.

For example, if you have configured a service monitor to retain response time data then this report charts any changes in the response time (in milliseconds) that have occurred over the time period that you specified for the report.

Creating a Service Monitor Metrics report is a two-step process:

Creating Service Monitor Metrics Reports

To create a Service Monitor Metrics report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Service Monitor Metrics.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  5. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  6. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  7. Click Go to page 2.
    A table containing the current retained service metrics appears in the Service Metrics subpanel.
  8. Click the checkboxes in the Select column to select the variables on which you want to report.
  9. Optionally, select one of the following:
    • Show all non-ranged metrics on one chart
      This option combines all of the variables you selected in one chart. Any ranged metrics appear in their own charts.
    • Display charts as stacked area
      Each chart in the report has two or more data series stacked on top of each other, rather than the line graph that usually appears in the report.
  10. To save the report, do the following:
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field.
    • Optionally, enter text in the Description field.
    • Click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  11. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Reports for Capacity Planning

The following reports enable you to visualize the resource usage of systems in your Uptime Infrastructure Monitor environment, and then use that information to better plan, deploy, and consolidate your server resources:

Enterprise CPU Utilization Report

The Enterprise CPU Utilization report enables you to compare the processing power of different types of systems in your environment. Performing this kind of comparison is difficult because different types of systems use different processors - for example, a Windows server uses an Intel processor while a Solaris server may use a SPARC processor. The benchmarks for measuring the power of each type of processor are different.

An Enterprise CPU Utilization report offers a quick snapshot of the overall performance of the servers in your environment. Based on the information in the report, you can then determine how best to optimize CPU capacity across your enterprise.

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor can measure processing power using statistics called a power units. Power units are the number of CPUs on a system multiplied by the speed of the processors. For example, a Solaris server has four CPUs and each CPU runs at 168 Mhz. The total number of power units for the server is 672 (4 x 168). If you compare this to a Windows server with one CPU running at 2900 MHz (2,900 power units), then you can conclude that the Windows server has more processing power.

Enterprise CPU utilization is a percentage that is derived by dividing the total number of power units used by the total number of power units available. For example, if the number of power units used is 104 and the total number of available power units is 2,346 then the enterprise CPU utilization is 4.34%.

Creating an Enterprise CPU Utilization Report

To create an Enterprise CPU Utilization report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Enterprise CPU Utilization.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select one of the following options from the Sort by dropdown list to sort the results that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor returns:
    • Hostname (the default)
    • # of CPUs
    • CPU Speed
    • Power Units Total
    • Power Units Used Total
    • Power Units Used Partial
    • CPU Utilization Total
    • CPU Utilization Partial
  5. Select Ascending or Descending from the Sort Direction dropdown list.
  6. Select one or more of the following CPU statistics at which the report looks:
    • sys
      The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out system processes.
    • usr
      The percentage of CPU time that is used to carry out user processes.
    • wio
      The percentage of CPU time that could be handling processes, but which is waiting for I/O operations to complete.
  7. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  8. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  9. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
    You should select more than one system.
  10. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  11. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

File System Capacity Growth Report

The File System Capacity Growth report illustrates the following:

On Windows servers with a single disk, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor looks at the capacity of the main partition (usually the C:\ drive). If the Windows server has multiple disks, this report collects information for all of the disks. On UNIX and Linux servers, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor looks at individual file systems (for example, /var , /export , or /usr ) on all the disks in the system.

This report ignores floppy drives, tapes drives, and CD-ROM drives.

Creating a File System Capacity Growth Report

To create a File System Capacity Growth report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click File System Capacity Growth.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally, in the Exclude file system names like field enter either the name of a file system or a regular expression that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor uses to ignore certain file systems when generating the report.
    For example, if you want to exclude the /boot file system from the report, enter /boot in the field.
  5. Optionally, enter a value in the Exclude file systems over % full field.
    This value is expressed as a percentage. The report displays the information for file systems whose used disk space is less than the amount you enter in this field. For example, if you set this field to 45, the report only displays file systems whose percentage used values are less than or equal to 45%.
  6. Click the Show totals for each system only checkbox to report only on the total amount by which all file systems on all disks drives have grown, rather than displaying amounts for each file system.
  7. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  8. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  9. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  10. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  11. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Server Virtualization Report

Many organizations have a number of production servers that are not used to their full capacity. For example, a server could be running one or two applications and not using much of the hardware. Instead of wasting resources, you can consolidate these applications in a virtual environment, for example using VMware. This enables you to run applications on distinct servers, but without using as much hardware.

The Server Virtualization report can help you to pinpoint physical servers that can be combined on a single virtual server. The report highlights servers that are good candidates for virtualization - ones that do not fully use their CPU, memory, or disk resources.

In the report, each system has one of the following stars beside it:

As well, the metrics for Average Power Units Used ( Power Units measure the power of CPUs by multiplying the number of CPUs on a system by their speed), Avg Disk I/O, and Avg Network I/O for each system may be highlighted.

Creating a Server Virtualization Report

To generate a Server Virtualization report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Server Virtualization.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Click the Display Element custom fields option to insert the content of the custom fields in the system profile into the report.
    The custom fields contain additional information about the system - for example, the types of reports that should be run on this system or when maintenance is scheduled. For more information, see Editing a System Profile.
  5. In the Target Machine area, do the following to specify the hardware of the server on which the other servers are consolidated:
    • Select the type of processor used on the target server from the Architecture dropdown list:
      • Alpha
        A 64-bit processor from HP.
      • Itanium
        A 64-bit processor from Intel.
      • x86
        A standard 32-bit processor.
      • Sparc
        The range of SPARC processor used on system that run the Solaris operating system.
      • POWER
        The POWER processor, used with IBM p-series and i-series servers.
    • Select number of CPUs on the target system from the Num CPUs dropdown list. Then, enter the processor speed of the CPUs in the MHz field.
      For example, if the target system has four CPUs and each have a processor speed of 1,000 MHz, select 4 from the dropdown list and enter 1000 in the field.
    • Select the type of disk interface that is used on the target server from the Disk I/O dropdown list:
      • ATA
      • SCSI
      • iSCSI
      • SATA
      • SATA II
      • Fibre
        If none of the options above apply, enter the data transfer speed of the disk (measured in megabits per seconds) in the MBps field.
    • From the Network I/O dropdown list, select the type of disk interface that is used on the target server:
      • 10Mbit
      • 100Mbit
      • 1Gbit
      • 10Gbit
        If none of the options above apply, enter the data transfer speed of the network interface (measured in megabits per seconds) in the MBps field.
  6. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  11. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

Using the Server Virtualization Report

The results of a Server Virtualization report can help you to determine which physical servers to combine on a single virtual server. In order to effectively use the report, you must analyze the results in more depth.

First, look at the average number of power units used by the systems that you want to consolidate on a virtual server. That figure should be less than the total number of power units available on the target system.

Next, look at the disk I/O for the individual systems. If the system is running an application that has high levels of disk usage (for example, a database), that system might not benefit from virtualization. If, however, the target system has a very fast disk, you can still consider moving the candidate system to it.

Also, consider the geographical locations of the systems for which you are generating the report. For example, the report states the four systems of a similar type are good candidates for virtualization. However, two of those system are in different parts of the country or the world. In this case, adding them to a virtual server is not a viable option.

Solaris Mutex Exception Report

Solaris system with two or more CPUs can suffer from mutex (mutual exclusion) locks when two or more threads are waiting for the same resource. During processing, the Solaris kernel maintains locks on various resources. The kernel allocates enough mutex locks to allow multiple CPUs to complete their work simultaneously. However, if two or more CPUs try to get the same lock at the same time, all but one CPU stalls.

The Solaris Mutex Exception report pinpoints multi-processor Solaris systems that have a high number of mutex stalls. The report contains the following information:

Creating a Solaris Mutex Exception Report

To create a Solaris Mutex exception report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Solaris Mutex Exception.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally, enter a value in the Highlight average SMTX over threshold field.
    If the number of mutex stalls for a system, averaged for all of its CPUs over the defined reporting time period, exceeds the value in this field, the number is highlighted in the report. For example, if you enter 75 and a server returns 93, that value is highlighted.
  5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific Applications in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.

    Only Solaris systems with two or more CPUs are shown in the List of Elements.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Using the Solaris Mutex Exception Report

The following is an example of a Solaris Mutex Exception report:

The number of mutex stalls for the first system in the list exceeds the threshold that was set when the report was defined. Based on this information, you can generate one of the following graphs to get a better idea of the performance of the CPUs on the system:

  1. Multi-CPU Usage (see Generating a Multi-CPU Usage Graph for more information)
  2. Run Queue Length (see Run Queue Length for more information)
  3. Run Queue Occupancy (see Run Queue Occupancy for more information)

From there, you determine how to best reduce the queue size to improve performance.

Network Bandwidth Report

The Network Bandwidth report keeps track of the amount of data moving in and out of each network interface on a system. This report helps you identify or confirm that specific systems are overloaded, based on the amount of data they are sending or receiving; such systems could become bottlenecks for the whole network.

The amount of data moving through each interface is measured in megabytes. However, the following systems store data as packets rather than bytes:

If you are monitoring one or more of these systems, you can specify a ratio for converting packets to bytes.

Different network interfaces have a maximum packet size called a Maximum Transmission Unit (MTU) - an Ethernet interface, for example, has an MTU of 1,500 bytes. Most interfaces do not transmit packets at the MTU. The value that you specify for the bytes-per-packet conversion is based on the observed performance of the network interface. Fifty percent of MTU is a good average to use - the default value in Uptime Infrastructure Monitor is 750.

The report contains the following information:

Generating a Network Bandwidth Report

To generate a Network Bandwidth report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Network Bandwidth.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. If you are monitoring systems that store network traffic data in packets rather than bytes, enter a conversion ratio in the Bytes per Packet field.
    For example, you can specify a conversion ratio of 1,000 bytes per packet. The default is 750 bytes per packet.
  5. To generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific Applications in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Using the Network Bandwidth Report

The following is an example of a Network Bandwidth report:

In this example, the system Filter has high levels of network traffic flowing in and out of a particular network interface. Based on this information, you can generate a Network graph (see Network Graphs for more information) to get a better idea of why network I/O is so high on the system.

This report may display (unknown) in the Interface column when data is either missing or no data was returned by the agent in a timely manner.

 

Disk I/O Bandwidth Report

The Disk I/O Bandwidth report keeps track of the amount of data read from and written to a disk on a system. The report can the display the amount of data either as blocks or megabytes.

The report contains the following information:

Using Regular Expressions

You can use regular expressions to include or exclude disks and file systems when generating a Disk I/O Bandwidth Report (or a File System Service Time Summary Report), as shown below:

Using regular expressions, you can focus on particular disks or file systems on a server and also decrease the length of your report.

The regular expression syntax used with the Disk I/O Bandwidth Report or a File System Service Time Summary Report is similar to that used with the File System Capacity Growth report. For example, if you are generating a report on an Oracle volume and only want to focus on five specific file systems, you can enter the regular expression /u[0-4] in the Exceptions field.

If, on the other hand, you are working with a UNIX system with multiple disks and want to focus on disks whose names start with md1 but ignore those whose names start with md2 , you can enter the regular expression /md1.* in the Exceptions field and /md2.* in the Exclude Disks field.

Generating a Disk I/O Bandwidth Report

To generate a Disk I/O Bandwidth report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Disk I/O Bandwidth.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report.
    For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Bytes per Block field, specify the size of input and output blocks in bytes. The default is 512 bytes.
    Optionally, click the Output in MB to display the I/O values in megabytes rather than blocks.
  5. If you want to include or exclude certain disks, enter the following in the Exclude Disks and Exceptions fields:
  6. If you want to include or exclude certain file systems, enter the following in the Exclude File Systems and Exceptions fields:
  7. To generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  8. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  9. If you are generating reports for specific Applications in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  10. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  11. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Using the Disk I/O Bandwidth Report

The following is an example of a Disk I/O Bandwidth report:

In this example, the systems Brightmail and Weblogic Server have high levels of disk I/O. Based on this information, you can generate a Disk Performance Statistics graph (see Generating a Disk Performance Statistics Graph for more information) to get a better idea of why disk I/O is so high on the system.

CPU Run Queue Threshold Report

The CPU Run Queue Threshold report lists -- when a system’s CPU reaches a high level of usage -- the number of jobs that were ready to run but waiting in a queue, as well as the amount of time they were waiting.

If the size of the run queue is appreciably larger than the number of available processors on a system, or the run queue is backlogged for long periods of time, you can conclude that the server is overloaded.

You can use this report to pinpoint servers that are overloaded using the following factors:

This report contains the following information:

Generating a CPU Run Queue Threshold Report

To generate a CPU Run Queue Threshold report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click CPU Run Queue Threshold.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Max CPU (%) field, specify the threshold for CPU usage.
    CPU usage is considered critical when both the CPU usage and the length of the run queue exceed this threshold.
  5. In the Threshold field, enter the number of queued up jobs that, when exceeded, is considered excessive.
    Multiple CPUs are taken into account so that the defined threshold scales up with each additional CPU present on a monitored system.
  6. Select any of the following statistics to include in the report:
    • sys (CPU system time)
    • usr (CPU user time)
    • wio (CPU wait I/O time)
      The statistics that you select are added together and compared to the threshold that you specified in step 4. For example, to see when system time and user time are over 80%, select the sys and usr options and then enter 80 in the Max CPU (%) field.
  7. If you want to include a list of processes that are in the run queue in the report, click Show Processes.
  8. Click the Maintain Graph Scale option to keep the scale of the graphs in the reports consistent.
    For example, if you have three systems, and one is 1,200 minutes over the threshold then scale of the graph is 1,200 for all of the graphs in the report.
  9. To generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  10. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  11. If you are generating reports for specific Applications in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  12. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  13. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Using the CPU Run Queue Threshold Report

The following is an example of a CPU Run Queue Threshold report:

In this example, the system is consistently over the run queue threshold that was specified when the report was defined. Based on this information, you can generate a CPU performance graph (see See Monitoring CPU Performance. for more information) to get a better idea of why the system is exceeding the CPU run queue threshold.

File System Service Time Summary Report

The File System Service Time Summary report indicates which system disks (and file systems) are using an excessive amount of time to complete disk operations. This report helps you identify which systems may benefit from configuration changes (e.g., adding RAM, moving a file system to another hard disk, implementing a RAID).

The report contains the following information:

You can also sort the results in the report by one of six criteria that you can specify when defining the report.

Generating a File System Service Time Summary Report

To generate a File System Service Time Summary report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click File System Service Time Summary.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select one of the following options from the Primary Sort by dropdown list to sort the results that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor returns:
    • System Name
    • Disk
    • High Service Time (the default)
    • Low Service Time
    • Average Service Time
    • High Percentile
  5. Select Ascending or Descending from the associated dropdown list.
  6. Optionally, do the following:
    • Select another sort criteria from the Secondary Sort by dropdown list.
    • Select Ascending or Descending from the associated dropdown list.
  7. In the Threshold field, specify the threshold for file system service time.
    Disk or file system service time is considered critical when it exceeds this threshold.
  8. In the Percentile field, specify the percentage of time at which the service time for systems is below the threshold.
    The default is 95, which is the lowest service time that is greater than at least 95% of all of the recorded values in the time range that you specified in step 2.
  9. If you want to include or exclude certain disks, enter the following in the Exclude Disks and Exceptions fields:
    • The name of the disk.
    • A regular expression. See Using Regular Expressions for more information.
      You can enter one name or regular expression on a single line.
  10. If you want to include or exclude certain file systems, enter the following in the Exclude File Systems and Exceptions fields:
    • The name of the file system.
    • A regular expression. See Using Regular Expressions for more information.
      You can enter one name or regular expression on a single line.
  11. To generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  12. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  13. If you are generating reports for specific Applications in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  14. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  15. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Using the File System Service Time Summary Report

The following is an example of a File System Service Time Summary report:

In this example, the disks on each system have high levels of service time, and they are in the highest percentile that exceeds the service time threshold.

Reports for Service Level Agreements

The following reports enable you to assess your organization’s ability to meet, and diagnose failures in meeting service level agreements by summarizing compliance and reporting on compliance and non-compliance of an SLA’s component objectives and services:

SLA Summary Report

The SLA Summary report shows whether an SLA’s performance target is met, whether performance--even through currently compliant with the defined target--may eventually fall short in the future, and how component SLOs contributed to performance. The report contains charts and a table that provide the following information:

The report answers the following questions:

For more information on SLA definitions, see Service Level Agreements.

Creating an SLA Summary Report

To create an SLA Summary Report:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click SLA Summary.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select a Compliance Period for the report.
  5. Clear the Display Outage Tables checkbox if you want the report to display only outage graphs.
  6. If you want to generate reports for one or more groups that include SLAs, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views that contain SLAs, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific Service Level Agreements, select them from the List of SLAs.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

SLA Detailed Report

In cases where an SLA compliance target is not met, the SLA Detailed report breaks down both the outages of an SLA’s component SLOs, and the outages of each SLOs component services. This report allows you to pinpoint when specific services experienced outages, assisting with further investigation.

The report answers the following questions:

For more information on SLA definitions, see Service Level Agreements.

Creating an SLA Detailed Report

To create an SLA Summary Report:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click SLA Detailed.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select a Compliance Period to report on.
  5. Clear the Display Outage Tables checkbox if you want the report to display only outage graphs.
  6. If you want to generate reports for one or more groups that include SLAs, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific Service Level Agreements, select them from the List of SLAs.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Reports for Availability

The following reports enable you to visualize the availability metrics for all your mission-critical Applications and your critical system services:

Server Uptime Report

The Server Uptime report is a key checkpoint report that provides you with a focused and succinct snapshot of your infrastructure's availability. Report components include overall availability based on a defined up time threshold, availability by defined interval over the reporting period, as well as tallies of the number of Elements that experienced one or more outages, and the total number of outages. To assist with follow-up actions, Elements are listed by outage time and include details that help you determine whether the outage frequency or duration is contributing the most to total downtime. The Server Uptime report helps you answer the following types of questions:

The Server Uptime report is also a key starter report, as it is automatically created and saved for new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations. This daily report provides an hourly breakdown of availability, using a 95% uptime threshold. By default, a PDF version of the report is emailed to the SysAdmin user group.

The following is an example of a Server Uptime report:

The Server Uptime report is a default report that is automatically created and saved for daily generation on new Uptime Infrastructure Monitor installations.

Server Uptime Report Details

The following details are displayed in the Server Uptime report:

Uptime Summary
Overall UptimeThe uptime of all Elements included in the report for the defined time period. This is a composite uptime value for all individual Elements that are in an OK, WARN, or MAINT state; Element or Element group averages, or maximum values for a time period do not contribute to overall uptime.
Element OutagesThe total number of separate Element outages during the time period (because an individual Element can have more than one outage in the same time period).
Elements That FailedThe number of Elements that experienced an outage during the time period. Use this value to ensure the previous Element Outages count is not misleading due to the under performance of, for example, a single Element.
availability graph

A breakdown of the overall uptime for the time period, where the granularity is dependent on the Breakdown Type set during report configuration: by hour, day, week, or month. Availability for each time slice (i.e., whether it is marked as pass/green, or fail/red) is determined by the Target Percentage set during report configuration.

Uptime Details
ElementThe name of the Element that's in this report. Whether this Element is listed individually or within an Element group listing depends on whether you selected the Group by Element Group check box during report configuration. Elements are primarily sorted by uptime; Elements with equal uptime are sorted by name.
UptimeThe uptime for the specific Element during the time period, expressed as a percentage and bar. Element lists in the report are sorted by Uptime Infrastructure Monitor. The Target Percentage set during report configuration determines whether the Element is marked as pass/green, or fail/red.
Minutes DownThe total number of minutes the Element spent in a "down" state (CRIT or UNKNOWN) for the time period. If the Element experienced no downtime, this field is blank.
OutagesThe number of outages the Element experienced during the time period. If the Element experienced no downtime, this field is blank.
LongestThe number of minutes that comprises the Element's longest outage during the time period. Use this value to ensure the previous Minutes Down tally is not misleading due to, for example, a particularly long single outage among several short ones. If the Element experienced no downtime, this field is blank.

Creating a Server Uptime Report

To create a Server Uptime report, do the following:
  1. On the Reports tab, click Server Uptime, which is found in the Availability section of the reports tree panel.
  2. In the date and time range section, select a reporting window. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. In the Report Options section, configure the look and contents of your report:
    1. define the Target Percentage that determines whether Elements are displayed as critical performers in the report
    2. the time slice used to assess the target uptime value defined in the previous step:
      • Hourly
      • Daily
      • Weekly
      • Monthly

      Because reports have a finite amount of space to present their information, use a level of granularity that suits the breadth of the date and time range selected for the report (e.g., hourly time slices for a daily report, or daily time slices for a weekly report).

    3. whether Elements included in the report are automatically displayed by Element group
    For information on the specific components of the Server Uptime report, see Server Uptime Report Details.
  4. Determine which Elements are included in the Uptime report by selecting Infrastructure Groups, Element Views, or individual Elements from the following sections:
    • List of Groups
    • List of Views
    • List of Elements
  5. Continue with the desired report generation process:

Application Availability Report

The Application Availability report tracks the availability of the Applications in your environment, as well as the monitors that are associated with the Applications. This report contains the following information:

For more information on Applications, see Working with Applications.

Creating an Application Availability Report

To create an Application Availability report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Application Availability.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Click the Show Details option to generate a full listing of information about the availability of the Applications, which is broken down by individual Applications.
  5. If you do not select this option, then a summary of the status of all Applications appears on a single line, as shown below:
  6. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific Applications in your environment, select them from the List of Applications.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Incident Priority Report

The Incident Priority report provides information on the frequency, duration, and recovery time of critical-level events, and the overall reliability of your monitored systems. This information is presented for services that are associated with groups of Elements (whether a pre-defined group, or an manually selected list of individual Elements). Compared to the Service Monitor Outages report, the Incident Priority report, instead of providing an auditable list of outages, uses a comparative approach to indicate how efficiently systems are running in relation to each other, and furthermore, how efficiently problems are dealt with.

In order to report this efficiency, the following building blocks are available as elements in the report:

Note that, to provide clear results in the report, only service monitors that were manually assigned to, and are directly associated with, an Element are taken into account when downtime and incident counts are tallied. This means service monitors that may be automatically installed such as the Platform Performance Gatherer are not included; additionally, only an Application’s status as a whole affects downtime and incident counts, but its component service monitors--both master and regular service monitors--do not.

Using downtime and efficiency counts, the Incident Priority report includes the following key elements:

For all report elements, a service monitor is considered to have reached a critical state--thus has caused an incident, is contributing to downtime, or is an ongoing failure--when it actually generates an alert. The period preceding the alert, during which rechecks are intermittently performed to avoid a false positive, does not count. See Understanding the Alert Flow for information on rechecks leading to a generated alert.

Creating an Incident Priority Report

To create an Incident Priority report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Incident Priority.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    Service monitors that, based on the selected time range, are already in a critical state are included in calculations for downtime, incident counts, and other report elements.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Report Options area, select the charts you want included in the report. (These charts are described in the previous section.)
  5. For report charts that are tallies, such as the Incidents count, or Total Downtime, select a Breakdown Type, that is, the level of granularity at which the information is presented (daily, weekly, or monthly).
  6. If the report includes the Incident Priority Quadrant, configure the following two options:
    1. select whether to include Element names in the scatter plot
    2. in the list beneath the quadrant that shows all Elements in the quadrant, indicate whether you want it to be ordered by Incident Count, or Downtime
  7. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  8. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area. See Working with Views for more information about views.
  9. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  10. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  11. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Report section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Service Monitor Availability Report

The Service Monitor Availability report tracks the status of the services associated with the hosts in your environment. This report lists the percentage of time each service was in the following states over the time period that you specify: OK, Warning, Critical, Maintenance, or Unknown.

For more information on each status, see Understanding the Status of Services.

Creating Service Monitor Availability Reports

To create Service Monitor Availability reports, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Service Monitor Availability.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  5. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  6. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems and Nodes.
  7. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  8. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Service Monitor Outages Report

The Service Monitor Outages report lists all warning or critical events for services that have occurred over a specified time period. Use this report to determine the cause of a problem by analyzing the declining availability of a server or set of servers.

The Service Monitor Outages report contains the following information:

Creating a Service Monitor Outages Report

To create a Service Monitor Outages report, do the following:

  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Service Monitor Outages.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select one of the following options from the Sort by dropdown list:
    • Sample Time by Element
    • Service Name by Element
    • All Sample Times
  5. From the Sort Direction dropdown list, select Ascending or Descending.
  6. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Reports for J2EE Applications

The following reports enable you to visualize any performance problems with applications that are running a J2EE environments:

WebSphere Report

The WebSphere report charts a set of counters that provide insight into the health and performance of a WebSphere Application Server. Depending on the number of options that you select, the report can become quite long and can take considerable time to generate. For most options, the report contains charts for two or more metrics.

Creating a WebSphere Report

To create a WebSphere report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click WebSphere.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select one or more of the following report options:
    • Thread pool
      A set of counters that report on the number of connection threads that were created or destroyed, that are concurrently active or are hung, that are in the thread pool, or time that are in use.
    • JDBC Connection Pool
      A set of counters that monitor the performance of JDBC data sources.
    • Enterprise Beans
      A set of counters that report the following: load values, response times, and life cycle activities for enterprise Java beans.
    • JVM Runtime
      A set of counters that monitor the performance of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) that is running on the WebSphere server.
    • Transaction Manager
      A set of counters that report on the status of global, local, and concurrent transactions.
    • Servlet Session Manager
      A set of counters that report on usage information from the HTTP servlets that are running on the server.
    Optionally, click Select All to generate a report on all of the options listed above.
  5. If you selected more than one report option and plan to report on more than one system, you can optionally click the Group report options by system checkbox.
    Selecting this option combines the metrics for each system for which you are generating the report.
  6. To generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific systems, select the systems from the List of Systems.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. If you want to save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Using the WebSphere Report

Because WebSphere is large and complex, it can be difficult to pinpoint the source of a problem with the server or an application running on the server. This is especially true when that problem is intermittent. Watching for problems in real time only gives you a snapshot of the problem. The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor WebSphere report, on the other hand, gives you a detailed historical perspective of the problem. Using the information in the report, you can find the source of the problem.

For example, users have trouble working with an application that intensively uses a database. Checking the Connection Pool charts section of a WebSphere report could indicate the source of the problem - the database has reached its maximum number of connections.

You can then adjust the size of the database connection pool to allow more connections.

Or, if a WebSphere application is using a large amount of memory you could check the JVM charts section of the report. If there are spikes in the heap size or memory usage of the JVM, you can tune the JVM to ensure that it is working at optimal levels.

WebLogic Report

The WebLogic report charts a set of metrics (see WebLogic for details) that provide insight into the health and performance of a WebLogic server. Using the WebLogic report, you can pinpoint problem areas on your WebLogic server and quickly determine how to fix those problems.

Depending on the number of options that you select, the report can become quite long and can take considerable time to generate. For most options, the report contains charts for two or more metrics.

Creating a WebLogic Report

To create a WebLogic report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click WebLogic.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Report Options area, select one or more of the following options:
    • Thread pool
      The report charts the number of pending request in the thread pool, as well as the free size of the pool.
    • Server Stats
      The report charts the number of connection requests that WebLogic accepts before refusing additional requests, as well as the number of open sockets to the server.
    • JDBC Connection Pool
      The report charts the number of active and leaked connections to the server, as well as the size of the connection pool, the number of connections that are waiting or delayed, and the number of 
      failures to reconnect to the server.
    • Enterprise Beans
      The report charts the number of Enterprise Java Beans (EJB) that are active or were moved to secondary storage, the number of time that a container can and cannot find an EJB in the cache, as well as the total number of EJBs in the cache.

      This report returns information for:
      •  Stateful EJBs, which hold data for a client between calls to the EJB. Stateful EJBs can use considerable amount of server resources.
      • Stateless EJBs, which hold data for only one call to the EJB, and then deletes that data. Stateless EJBs use fewer system resources than stateful EJBs
    • JVM Runtime
      The report charts the heap size (in kilobytes) of the Java Virtual Machine (JVM) on the WebLogic server, as well as amount memory (in kilobytes) available to the JVM.
    • Transaction Manager
      The report charts the number of transactions that were committed or completed successfully, as well as total number of transactions that are rolled back.
    • Servlets
      The report charts the number of requests that were made to the HTTP servlets that are running on the WebLogic server.

      Optionally, click Select All Options to use all of the options that are listed above.
  5. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems and Nodes.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Using the WebLogic Report

Because WebLogic is large and complex, it can be difficult to pinpoint the source of a problem with the server or an application running on the server. This is especially true when that problem is intermittent. Watching for problems in real time only gives you a snapshot of the problem. The Uptime Infrastructure Monitor WebLogic report, on the other hand, gives you a detailed historical perspective of the problem. Using the information report, you can find the source of the problem.

For example, users have trouble logging into an application that is running on the WebLogic server. Checking the Connection Pool charts section of a WebLogic report, you might see that the size of the connection pool has reached its maximum, and that there are a large number of connections that are waiting in the pool. From there, you can then adjust the size of the connection pool to allow more connections.

Or, if a WebLogic application is using a large amount of memory you could check the JVM charts section of the report.

If there are increases or sudden spikes in the heap size or memory usage of the JVM, then you can tune the JVM to ensure that it is working at optimal levels.

Reports for Virtual Environments

Virtualization platforms such as VMware vSphere enable you to consolidate servers and applications in a virtual environment. Using virtual machine managers such as VMware ESX, you can run multiple servers or applications on a single system, but without using as much hardware. Each server or application runs in its own VMware instance. You can use VMware vSphere to manage and monitor ESX servers, as well as allocate resources among virtual machines.

Uptime Infrastructure Monitor's VMware and pSeries reports enable you to visualize the performance of systems that are consolidated on virtual machines, whether using VMware or IBM pSeries Logical Partitions (LPARs):

VM Workload Report

The VMware vSphere workload report provides a broad view of workloads across your entire virtual infrastructure. For selected Elements, it includes a resource usage overview (CPU, memory, disk, and network). It also includes detailed resource usage charts for selected Elements' child objects in the vSphere hierarchy.

For reporting periods, total resource usage is reported regardless of how the VMware vSphere object child objects change during that time period. For example, a four-week overview chart for an ESX server includes performance of VMs that have since migrated.

Using this report, you can visualize resource usage at the datacenter, cluster or ESX server level, as well as with resource pools, vApps, and virtual machines. You can also understand how these Elements' respective child objects contribute to their usage levels.

vSphere Workload Report Metrics

The following metrics can be displayed in a VM Workload report:

 

CPU Usagethe following is shown for the interval:
  1. for ESX servers, the total CPU capacity, in GHz
  2. the current amount of CPU resources, in GHz, used by ESX hosts or VMs
  3. the total CPU capacity of the Element
Memory
Usage
the following is shown for the interval:
  1. for ESX servers, total memory capacity, in GB
  2. the amount of memory, in GB, used by ESX hosts or VMs
  3. the total memory capacity of the Element
Disk I/Othe rate, in MBps, at which ESX hosts or VMs are reading and writing data to and from disk
Network I/Othe rate, in Mbps, at which ESX hosts or VMs are receiving or transmitting data over the network
% Waitthe amount of time during the interval, as a percentage, that the VM or all VMs on an ESX host, resource pool or vApp had scheduled CPU time, but gave nothing to process
% Ready

the amount of time during the interval, as a percentage, that the VM or all VMs on an ESX host, resource pool or vApp were ready to process, but were not scheduled CPU time by the host

For the % Wait and % Ready metrics, it is possible to be presented with values that exceed 100%. The underlying data used in the workload report's graphs are migrated from VMware vSphere via vSync; VMware conventions include percent-based metrics that can be greater than 100%. For example, refer to the VMware Technical Note, Performance Counters, at http://www.vmware.com/files/pdf/technote_PerformanceCounters.pdf.

 

Creating a VM Workload Report

To create a VM Workload report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click VM Workload.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Select the Elements you would like to include in the vSphere Workload report from the following sections where applicable:
    • List of vCenter Servers
    • List of ESX Servers
    • List of Datacenters
    • List of Clusters
    • List of Resource Pools
    • List of vApps
    • List of Virtual Machines
  5. Select which vSphere Element Summaries to Display.
    For each of the Elements you selected in the previous step, you can display resource usage summaries of their VMware vSphere child objects in the detailed sections of the report.
    For example, if you select a VMware vCenter server Element to be in the report, selecting the Datacenter and Cluster summary options includes summaries for datacenters and clusters that are child objects of the vCenter server. Note that selecting a VMware vSphere child object does not automatically include its own child objects (e.g., ESX servers that are part of a cluster); a selection exclusively includes that specific object.
    Only VMware vSphere child objects that are relevant to the parent are shown:
    • if you select the Datacenter summary option, VMware vCenter server Elements included in the report include resource usage summaries for its child datacenter objects
    • if you select the Cluster summary option, VMware vCenter server and datacenter Elements in the report include resource usage summaries for their child cluster objects
    • if you select the ESX Server summary option, datacenter and cluster Elements in the report include resource usage summaries for their child ESX server objects
    • if you select the Resource Pool or vApp summary options, any datacenter, cluster, or ESX server Elements included in this report include resource usage summaries of its top-level resource pools and vApps
    • if you select the Resource Pool or vApp summary options, any parent resource pool or vApp Elements included in this report include resource usage summaries for their child resource pools and vApps
    • if you select the Virtual Machine summary option, ESX servers, resource pools, and vApps included in this report include resource usage summaries for their child VMs
    • if you select the Virtual Machine summary option, datacenters and clusters included in this report include percent-ready and percent-wait summaries for its child VMs
  6. In the Report Options section, select whether to Show Overview Charts in the report.
    The overview charts consist of CPU, memory, disk, and network usage overviews for the defined time range.
  7. Select whether to Show Resource Utilization in the report.
    The resource utilization shows numeric summary information on CPU Utilization, Memory Utilization, and File System Utilization for the defined time range.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

VM Sprawl Report

The VM Sprawl report helps you assess the extent of sprawl across your virtual infrastructure, and provides you with the information needed to reduce it. Using the report, you can perform the following types of tasks:

  • see which VMs are underused, and which VMs’ tasks should be consolidated elsewhere
  • create an inventory of VMs that are always off or suspended, thus were unnecessarily created
  • see which VMs were not powered on recently
  • audit or verify VM creation and destruction balance
  • plot VM population trends to see if sprawl is growing or reduced

Depending on how it is configured the VM Sprawl report consists of at least one of the following components:

  1. monthly VM population trends for up to the last year
    For each month, stacked bars show the following VM totals:
    • created during that month and are currently running
    • created during that month and are currently suspended or powered off
    • destroyed during that month
    • created and destroyed during that same month
  2. a list of VMs created during the time period
  3. a list of VMs destroyed during the time period
  4. lists summarizing various VM power state scenarios:
    • existing VMs created that were powered off or suspended for 20% or more of the time, during the time period
    • existing VMs that were not powered on during the time period
    • existing VMs that were in a suspended state for the time period

Creating a VM Sprawl Report

To create a VM Sprawl report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click VM Sprawl.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Report Options section, select which types of VM population totals you would like to include in the report.
  5. Select the Elements whose child-object VMs you would like to include in the report totals.
    In most cases, for the greatest visibility with a high-level view, the selected Element is most likely be a VMware vCenter server or datacenter Element.
  6. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  7. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  8. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

VM Workload (legacy) Report

A VMware server often slows down because an instance on the server is consuming large amounts of such system resources as CPU, disk I/O, and memory. The problem could lie with an instance that is currently slow or another instance on the same server. The VMware Workload report charts the workload of the server. You can also use the report to determine whether you are using a particular VMware server to its optimal capacity.

This report provides information only about older, legacy VMware ESX type Elements that are part of your monitored infrastructure.

Both the VMware Workload (legacy) and VMware Infrastructure Density (legacy) reports run only when the ESX server is added directly through the legacy method of selecting the VMware ESX server through the Add System screen (not recommended going forward from ESX 4.0) rather than through the vCenter addition.

The VMware Workload report can be a useful tool for determining whether a VMware server is used to its optimal capacity. Consider the following example, in which the VMware Workload report returns the following information about the top ten CPU loads on the VMware server:

This graph indicates that, on average, the 10 most CPU-intensive instances use only 20% of the server’s CPU capacity. The CPU on the server can handle up to three to four times its current load.

The memory usage section of the report indicates that the instances are using roughly the same amount of memory:

The server appears to have an ample amount of memory available.

The report indicates that you can add more instances to the VMware server.

Creating a VM Workload (legacy) Report

To create a VM Workload (legacy) report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click VM Workload (legacy).
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Report Options section, select one of the following:
    • Workload Profile - CPU
      The percentage of CPU time that is used by a VMware instance. This is a percentage of the available maximum amount of CPU time. This ensures that all of the CPU usage figures add up to the overall CPU usage of the server.
    • Workload Profile - Memory
      The amount of physical memory, in kilobytes, that is used by a VMware instance.
    • Workload Profile - Disk IO
      The amount of the disk I/O capacity, in kilobytes per second, that is used by a VMware instance.
    • Workload Profile - Network IO
      The amount of the network I/O capacity, in kilobits per second, that is used by a VMware instance.
    • Workload Profile - % Ready
      The amount of time that one or more instances running on an ESX server is ready to run, but cannot run because it cannot access the processor on the ESX server.
    • Workload Profile - % Used
      The percentage of CPU time that an instance running on an ESX server is using.
  5. If you want to generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. Do one of the following:
    • Click the Generate Report button.
    • Enter a name for the report in the Save to My Portal As field, and optionally enter text in the Report Description field. Then, click Save Report.
      The report parameters are saved to the My Portal panel. Doing this does not generate the report.
  10. To schedule the saved report to run at a specific time or interval, click the Scheduled checkbox.
    See Scheduling Reports for more information on configuring a scheduled report.

VM Density (legacy) Report

The VMware Infrastructure Density report enables you to assess the carrying capacity and workload distribution of your ESX infrastructure. To accomplish this, virtual machine counts are tracked and reported on a daily basis, where the peak VM count for a given day is used as that day’s tally. The information available in the report includes the following:

  1. Virtual Infrastructure Density: The total number of virtual machines in relation to the total number of ESX servers over a given time period. A trend line is mapped onto the totals, indicating whether VM counts, and corresponding workloads, are increasing or decreasing in relation to available ESX server capacity.
  2. Total Virtual Machine Count: The total number of virtual machines running on all, or a group of, ESX servers. The VM totals are separated into individual ESX server totals.
  3. ESX Server Virtual Machine Count: The total number of virtual machines running on a specific ESX server.

Using this report, you can have a better understanding of virtualized workloads by seeing ESX server use and trends, and quantifying VM creation overall, and on a server-by-server basis.

This report provides information only about older, legacy VMware ESX type Elements that are part of your monitored infrastructure.

Both the VMware Workload (legacy) and VMware Infrastructure Density (legacy) reports run only when the ESX server is added directly through the legacy method of selecting the VMware ESX server through the Add System screen (not recommended going forward from ESX 4.0) rather than through the vCenter addition.

Creating a VM Density Report

To create a VM Density report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click VMware Infrastructure Density.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. In the Report Options section, indicate whether you want to Include Charts for Individual ESX Servers by selecting or clearing the check box.
    When this option is enabled, a separate chart with VM counts is created for each ESX server that is included in the report.
  5. In the Report Options section, select the level of granularity at which the virtual infrastructure density information is presented (i.e., daily, weekly, or monthly).
  6. If you want to generate reports for groups of systems, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  7. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  8. If you are generating reports for specific systems in your environment, select them from the List of Systems and Nodes.
  9. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  10. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

Datastore Capacity Growth Report

The Datastore Capacity Growth report illustrates the following for virtual storage capacity:

On Windows servers with a single disk, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor looks at the capacity of the main partition (usually the C:\ drive). If the Windows server has multiple disks, this report collects information for all of the disks. On UNIX and Linux servers, Uptime Infrastructure Monitor looks at individual file systems (for example, /var, /export, or /usr) on all the disks in the system.

This report ignores floppy drives, tapes drives, and CD-ROM drives.

Creating a Datastore Capacity Growth Report

To create a Datastore Capacity Growth report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click Datastore Capacity Growth.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information about these options, see Understanding Dates and Times.
    If no data is available for the date range, the report displays a message indicating that there is no data for the time period.
  3. If you want the report to only include data from certain hours during the day, select those hours from the dropdown lists in the Daily Hours section. Note that this time is local to the monitoring station. For example, if you want to report to cover the hours from 1:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m., select 1:00 from the Start dropdown list, and 13:00 from the End dropdown list.
  4. Optionally, in the Exclude datastores names like field, enter either the name of a datastore or a regular expression that Uptime Infrastructure Monitor uses to ignore certain datastores when generating the report.
  5. Optionally, enter a value in the Exclude datastores over x% full field.
    This value is expressed as a percentage. The report displays the information for datastores whose used disk space is less than the amount you enter in this field. For example, if you set this field to 45, the report only displays datastores whose percentage used values are less than or equal to 45%.
  6. If you are generating reports for specific datastores in your environment, select them from the List of Elements.
  7. Optionally, if you are generating reports for a virtual element and want to use a snapshot, select the snapshot from the List of Snapshots.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. To save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

LPAR Workload Report

The LPAR Workload report charts the workload of the individual logical partitions (LPARs) on an IBM pSeries server. It does this by graphing the following workload data:

Using the LPAR Workload Report

The LPAR Workload report takes the guesswork out of determining CPU entitlements for the LPARs on a pSeries server. The entitlements indicate the amount of CPU power that is assigned to an LPAR.

For example, you have an LPAR with hard entitlement (one that cannot use spare processing power from another CPU on the server) and its CPU usage is constantly at or near the maximum. In this case, you can either increase the CPU entitlement of the LPAR, or change it to a soft entitlement.

If, on the other hand, the LPAR has a soft entitlement (one which can use spare processing power from another CPU on the server) and its CPU usage is consistently at or greater than the entitlement, you can increase it.

Creating an LPAR Workload Report

To create an LPAR Workload report, do the following:
  1. In the Reports Tree panel, click LPAR Workload.
  2. In the Date and Time Range area, select the dates and times on which to report. For more information, see Understanding Dates and Times.
  3. Select one or more of the following report options:
    • CPU Workload
      The CPU entitlements of the LPARs, and their use of the entitlements.
    • Memory Workload
      The amount of memory, in kilobytes, that is used by the LPARs on the system.
    • Disk IO Workload
      The amount of data, measured in kilobytes per second, that is read from and written to the disk by the LPARs on the system.
    • Network IO Workload
      The amount of data, measured in kilobytes per second, that is sent and received over the network interface by the LPARs on the system.
      Optionally, click Select All to generate a report on all of the options that are listed above.
  4. If you selected more than one report option and plan to report on more than one system, you can optionally click the Group report options by system checkbox.
    Selecting this option combines the metrics for each system for which you are generating the report.
  5. To generate reports for systems in specific groups, select the groups from the List of Groups area.
  6. To generate reports for one or more views, select the groups from the List of Views area.
    See Working with Views for more information about views.
  7. If you are generating reports for specific systems, select the systems from the List of Systems.
  8. Select a report generation option. See Report Generation Options for details.
  9. If you want to save the report or schedule it to run at a specific time or interval, complete the settings in the Save Reports section of the subpanel.
    See Saving Reports and Scheduling Reports for more information.

 

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