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Uptime Infrastructure Monitor includes a powerful set of reporting and graphing tools that enable you to visualize performance data. You can use the reports and graphs as the starting point when analyzing problems in your environment.
For more information, see Understanding Reports Options and Understanding Graphing Using Graphs.
Understanding Reports
Reports enable you to visually analyze how individual critical resources-- such as memory, CPU, and disk resources--are consumed over a specific period of time.
For detailed information about reports, see Using Reports.
If you need to regularly run certain reports, you can save them to the My Portal panel. See Scheduling Reports for more information.
Understanding Graphs
You can graph performance information when you need to view the most common or pertinent performance information for servers in your environment. For example, you can use a graph to determine CPU usage or the available capacity on a file system. Graphs give you a fine level of performance detail.
You can view graphs in two ways:
- With Internet Explorer in Microsoft Windows. Graphs are rendered using an ActiveX graphing control. You can edit and manipulate a graph once it is displayed, and you can create trend lines.
- Using the Java graphing tool on any platform (e.g., in Firefox, running on Linux).
For more information on graphing, see
Understanding Graphing and| Anchor | ||||
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Agents are small applications that are installed on the systems that you are monitoring. Agents do the following:
- collect information from a remote server
- send the collected service data to the Monitoring Station
Certain Uptime Infrastructure Monitor monitors poll the agents for data at a frequency that you can configure. The data collector component of the Monitoring Station then stores the results in the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor DataStore for use in a report or graph.
Agents enable you to collect very detailed information about a system, such as information about processes and low-level system statistics. The level of granularity of the information collected by agents is greater than that of the information collected by agentless monitors.
Each Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent is configured by default to collect and return performance information for every Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent service monitor. You do not need to configure the agent to collect information for a service.
On Windows, an agent is installed with the Uptime Infrastructure Monitor Monitoring Station. However, you need to deploy the agent on the systems you are monitoring. On other operating systems, you must download the agent from the IDERA Web site and manually install it.
Understanding Major and Minor Versions
When you install Uptime Infrastructure Monitor, you install a Monitoring Station and one or more Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agents. You could have different versions of Monitoring Stations and agents. For example, you could have different platforms and different Uptime Infrastructure Monitor agent versions running on each system.
- Major version
Regardless of operating system platform, the major version is the number to the left of the decimal. In the diagram above the major number of the Windows agent is 3; the major number of the UNIX agent is 3; the major number of the LINUX agent is 4.0.
- Minor version
Minor version numbers follow the major version number. These numbers are used to distinguish each minor version of a major version.
On UNIX and Linux, the minor version is the first number to the right of the decimal. In the diagram above, the minor version number of the UNIX agent is 8 and the minor version number of the Linux agent is 0.
On Windows, the minor version is the last set of numbers in the complete version. In the diagram above, the minor version number of the Windows agent is 1061.
For major version 4 and later for Windows, the minor version number is the number immediately after the decimal that follows the major number. For example, for Windows agent version 4.0, the minor number is 0.
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