During device provisioning stage (when adding a new host), we will attach the device to a monitoring template (eg. Template_HSA or Template_mbox). These templates pre-define a set of monitoring items, trigger conditions and reports. Devices attached to these templates will automatically inherit these settings, so that we don't need to re-configure those settings on a per host basis. Each template consist of a few key settings:
Items. Items are the individual metrics that we want to collect values, for each host, such as CPU/Memory usage, bandwidth usage, link latency, SLA, etc.
Triggers. Triggers are conditions that we want to be notified (alerted) by evaluating data collected from the items.
Graphs. Remember items are individual metric values (eg. inbound traffic, outbound traffic). Graphs are used to combine multiple items together, graphs data is stored for a minimal of 1-year.
Reports. Reports are manually created and customized by administrators, who will decide which hosts, items and graphs to include in the reports and schedule automatic sending of reports to email recipients.
After a device is provisioned correctly and becomes online, it will report its operating status to mfusion automatically and send the item values to mfusion. mfusion will process the data into graphs and reports, and evaluate data against trigger conditions to send alerts (if matched).
The in-depth view of monitoring details is provided in "ORCHESTRATOR > Monitoring". It also provides tools for you to easily control host Items and host Triggers. The monitoring data are grouped under five tabs:
Dashboard. This tab contains Host Status Summary and Problem Summary sections to provide an overview of the Host under the selected Entity, You can also customize the Host Graph Overview section to highlight important Hosts. In addition, there is a Map View section if your devices support Location Services.
Hosts. The tab page lists down all the hosts added to the particular entity with key information like Host model, firmware version, Host uptime, inbound/outbound traffic info, the status of the Host, and Public/Private WAN IP. See more details in Host Status Summary
Maps. This section allows self-customizing of topology maps. You can draw multiple maps to elaborate network topologies and link devices to the topology map to show overall operating status on the topology map.
Alerts. This tab displays the alerts that are configured in the host management, By default, the Host is pre-configured with basic alerts and the alert differs based on the Template selected while adding a host.
Settings. This menu allows user to amend the setting of Host, Template, Actions, Items and Triggers.
NOTE: Users can select which entity data to view by clicking the button in the top right corner.