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The System Monitor service provides a convenient method of charting and monitoring the activity of a number of components in a system. Features include:

Note: Some monitors are available only on systems that feature specific hardware (for example, the Pentium processor computations monitor or the RAID device attributes monitor) or that are running a specific operating system (for example, the processes and threads running monitors).

For more information on how to use System Monitor, see the following topics:

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Viewing System Monitors

When the System Monitor service is started the Monitors screen is displayed. The Monitors screen displays a list of all the available system monitors along with its captured value when the Monitors screen was requested. Use the choices in the Monitors screen to:

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Viewing System Monitor Thresholds

Use the Thresholds screen to display a list of all the System Monitor thresholds currently configured on the system. The System Monitor thresholds can be configured to monitor multiple threshold values as well as to provide notification that the monitored threshold values have fallen outside of their configured values. Use the choices in the Thresholds screen to:

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Select System Monitor Refresh Rate

Selected System Monitors can be configured to be refreshed based on a refresh rate time value.

Note: Some web browsers do not support automatic refreshing of web page contents. If your web browser does not support auto-refreshing, your will need to manually refresh the System Monitor web pages in order to see updated monitor data.

To refresh System Monitors on a time interval:

  1. Select one or more System Monitors to refresh from the Monitors screen.
  2. Select the check-boxes beside the System Monitor Names that you want to refresh.

  3. Type in the Refresh rate (in seconds) field the number of seconds to periodically refresh the selected System Monitors.
  4. Note: The default and minimum Refresh rate is 5 seconds.

  5. Select Set Refresh to start periodic refresh of selected System Monitors.

To stop periodic refresh of the selected System Monitors, select Monitors to return to Monitors screen.

To add a system monitor threshold, select a System Monitor from the displayed list.

To initiate a refresh of the selected System Monitors, select Refresh. This forces a refresh of the System Monitors without waiting for the periodic refresh interval.

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Add/Change System Monitor Thresholds

The Thresholds screen enables you to set threshold values for this monitored system component. If the monitored value of this system component falls outside of the configured threshold values, the System Monitor will generate a Netfinity alert.

System Monitor also automatically monitors any redundant arrays of independent disks (RAIDs) that may be present on your system.

To Add/Change a threshold for this system component:

  1. Type in the Name field the Threshold name for this System Monitor.
  2. If a Threshold name already exists, you can change it or leave it unchanged.

  3. Set the Threshold's duration.
  4. Use the Duration spin buttons to select the duration value. This will specify the length of time that the monitor's threshold value must be exceeded before an alert is generated.

  5. Set the resend delay.
  6. Use the Resend Delay spin buttons to select a resend delay value. This will specify the length of time that the System Monitor will wait, after sending an alert, before resending a duplicate alert if the threshold Value continues to be violated.

  7. Set the Threshold's values.
  8. Enter one or more Threshold Values for this monitor. You can set up to four different threshold values, each of which will generate a different Netfinity alert.

  9. Set the Threshold's Severity
  10. A default Severity is provided for each of the threshold values. You can adjust these values by selecting the spin buttons at the right of the field.

  11. Select Notify or Local Notify (optional).
  12. Select Notify to instruct the monitor to notify you if the threshold is violated. If you do not select Notify, the Threshold will be saved and will be active, but it will not generate an alert on your system. However, a Netfinity Manager could remotely access your system and select Notify. In this case, the Manager would be notified when the threshold was violated, but you would not.

    If you are using Remote System Access to configure a System Monitor threshold on a remote system, another check-box (called Local Notify) is available. If you select Local Notify, System Monitor will generate an alert on the local system on which you configured the threshold when the Threshold is exceeded. If you select Local Notify and one or more Notify check-boxes, alerts will be generated on your system and on the remote user's system when the Threshold is exceeded.

    Note: The Local Notify check-box will not appear on the Thresholds screen if you are using System Monitor locally.

  13. Save the threshold.
  14. Select Submit to save these Threshold values.

  15. Cancel threshold entries without saving
  16. Select Cancel to exit without saving values and return to Thresholds screen.

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Delete System Monitor Thresholds

To delete system monitor thresholds previously configured:

  1. Select one or more system Thresholds to delete.
  2. Select the check-boxes beside the system monitor Thresholds that you want to delete.

  3. Select Delete Selected to delete selected system monitor Thresholds.

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Exiting

To exit the System Monitor service, select the "Netfinity" image on the top or bottom of the System Monitor service to return to the Netfinity services screen.

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