- Preface
- New and Changed Information for this Release
- Overview
- Managing Users and Groups
- Setting Up the End User Portal
- Managing System Administration Settings
- Managing Integration Settings
- Managing a Physical Infrastructure
- Managing a Virtual Infrastructure
- Managing Policies
- Managing Virtual Data Centers
- Managing Resource Groups
- Managing Catalogs
- Using Self-Service Provisioning
- Multiple Disk VM Provisioning
- Using the Chargeback Module
- System Monitoring and Reporting
- Managing Lifecycles
- Managing CloudSense Analytics
System Monitoring
and Reporting
This chapter contains the following sections:
- Dashboard
- Summary
- Inventory Management
- Resource Pools
- Clusters
- Images
- Host Nodes
- Virtual Machines (VMs)
- Topology
- Assessment
- Reports
Dashboard
In Cisco UCS Director, you can enable the Dashboard option in the user interface. On the Dashboard screen, you can add important, or frequently accessed report widgets. If you have enabled the Dashboard option, then this is the first window that you see when you log in to the user interface. After enabling the Dashboard, you can create additional dashboards, and delete them when you no longer need them. For more information, see Creating Additional Dashboards and Deleting a Dashboard.
Enabling the Dashboard
What to Do Next
If there are no widgets on the Dashboard, you can access any summary report in the user interface, and select Add to Dashboard.
Creating Additional Dashboards
You should have enabled the Dashboard in the user interface.
Deleting a Dashboard
You cannot delete the default dashboard.
Adding Report Widgets
You must be logged in to the appliance to complete this task.
Refreshing Widget Data
After enabling the Dashboard option, you can set a refresh interval to the widgets on this page. Automatic refresh can occur at intervals from a minimum of 5 minutes to a maximum of 60 minutes.
The Automatic Refresh button on the dashboard should be set to ON to configure the interval.
Summary
The Summary screen allows you to manage system inventory. It gives you access to a wide array of tabular, graphical, and map reports, and also helps in managing inventory lifecycle actions.
Each report is displayed as a widget. Reports can be hidden through customization.
Viewing Virtual Machine, Cloud, and System Summary Information
Customizing Summary Report Widgets
Inventory Management
You can monitor the system inventory using the Dashboard. The Dashboard displays the entire system level infrastructure information for administrative management.
Accessing System Inventory Details
Resource Pools
The Resource Pools screen shows resource details at the host node level. These details include the CPU configured reservation, CPU limit, CPU used, and memory used.
Accessing Resource Details
| Step 1 | Choose . |
| Step 2 | On the Compute page, choose the cloud. |
| Step 3 | On the Compute page, click Resource Pools. |
All the resource pools for the selected cloud are displayed. You can select a resource pool and click View Details to view detailed information of each resource pool.
Clusters
If a pod includes clusters, then the Clusters screen displays all the cluster-related information.
Accessing Clusters
| Step 1 | Choose . |
| Step 2 | On the Compute page, choose the cloud. |
| Step 3 | On the Compute page, click Clusters. |
All clusters available in the selected cloud accounts are displayed. You can select a specific cluster, and click View Details.
Images
The Images screen displays all available image IDs and their details. These images include guest OS, CPU, memory, and storage provisioned. You can use these image IDs to provision new virtual machines (VMs). If you are a group administrator, or an MSP administrator, then the Images screen displays images that have been assigned to your group.
If you select a specific VMware cloud account, and click Images, you can assign images to groups or to individual users. Images assigned to a particular group or user are displayed when administrators of the relevant group log in to the system.
Accessing Images
| Step 1 | Choose . |
| Step 2 | On the Compute page, choose the cloud. |
| Step 3 | On the Compute page, click Images. |
A list of images associated with the selected clouds is displayed. You can select a specific image and click View Details.
Assigning VM Images to Users or Groups
As an administrator, you can assign specific VM images to users or groups. The assignments filter the images that are displayed when you perform VM provisioning tasks, such as creating catalogs.
Host Nodes
The Host Nodes screen displays all physical host nodes that are available in the infrastructure. The screen lists details such as the ESX/ESXi version installed, active VMs, and power status.
Accessing Host Nodes
You must be logged in to the appliance to complete this task.
| Step 1 | Choose . |
| Step 2 | On the Compute page, click Host Nodes. |
| Step 3 | Click the row with the host node that you want view, and click View Details. |
Virtual Machines (VMs)
The VMs screen displays all the VMs and VM-specific details for the chosen cloud.
Accessing VMs
All virtual machines for all cloud accounts are displayed. You can perform additional tasks on these VMs such as launching VM client or powering off VMs. For more information, see Managing VM Actions.
Accessing Group Level VMs
| Step 1 | Choose . |
| Step 2 | On the Virtual Resources page, choose the user group. |
| Step 3 | On the Virtual Resources page, click VMs. |
All virtual machines for the selected group are displayed. You can perform additional tasks on these VMs such as launching VM client or powering off VMs. For more information, see Managing VM Actions.
Topology
The Topology screen displays VMware cloud topology. There are four view mode types: Hierarchical, Concentric, Circular, and Force Directed. Depending on the mode, you can adjust the item spacing, distance, radius, rigidity, and force distance.
Accessing Topology Types
You must be logged in to the appliance to complete this task.
Assessment
The Assessment screen displays assessment reports such as cloud readiness, and virtualization best practices for a cloud account.
Accessing Assessments
You must be logged in to the appliance to complete this task.
Reports
Cisco UCS Director can help you monitor virtual infrastructure and system resources. It displays a wide variety of reports that provide insight into how the system is performing
Following are the types of reports:
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Tabular reports for system information, including overview, host nodes, new VMs, and deleted VMs.
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Bar and pie graph comparisons, including VMs active versus inactive, and CPU provisioned versus capacity.
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Trend graphs about system resources, including CPU trends, memory trends, and VM additions and deletions.
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Other reports include Top 5 reports at the group, VDC, host node, and VM levels. The Top 5 reports focus on groups with the highest number of VMs, groups with the greatest CPU usage, VDCs with the highest number of VMs, and host nodes with the greatest CPU usage.
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Map reports, displaying the system resource information in the form of heat maps or color-coded maps.
Additional trend reports are available for certain accounts (for example: KVM accounts). Trend reports display data over a selected time frame.
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