Monitor hosts and services

Monitor host states

From the Hosts page, you can see the status of monitored hosts along with additional information.

From the Charts page, you can choose to generate Charts for any host or collection of hosts in the cluster. For example, you can view Charts that illustrate compute node loads or memory utilization on the primary install node.

  1. From the organization tree, select Resources > Hosts.

    The icon view of all hosts in your cluster displays and identifies your current master host.

  2. Hover over any host icon.

    Details about the host display including host name and current status.

  3. Click any host icon.

    The host details page displays.

  4. Click Charts and generate the graphs you want to display.

Create a system report

You can create reports that summarize trends, events, alerts, and the availability of a range of services. From here you can also view notifications and event logs.

Although many graphs, reports, and charts are automatically generated within the Platform Console, you can also use the reporting function to customize and build specific reports that illustrate host and service trends and availability, along with alert statistics and summaries.

  1. From the organizational tree, open the System Monitoring folder and then click Reporting.
  2. Select the report type you want to build from the options at the top of the page.

    Choose from Trends, Availability, Alert Histogram, or Alert Summary.

    The corresponding Reporting page opens.

  3. Follow the steps and instructions provided on the Reporting page, and then click Continue until all information is provided for report generation.

Monitor your cluster: present and past performance

Platform RTM must be installed on an LSF cluster (Update 3 and above) before integrating with the Platform Console.

Install Platform RTM to allow a graphical view of your LSF cluster. Platform RTM communicates the overall health of multiple LSF clusters, as well as data about past cluster performance.

Once integrated with the Platform Console, you can use RTM to create reports and view cluster details in the same way as you do using the RTM Console. See the Platform RTM User Guide for details.

Note:

General steps for integrating Platform RTM with the Platform Console are provided. Check the related Platform LSF and Platform RTM documents for details.

  1. Enable the PMC plug-in for the RTM Console.

    See the Platform LSF Command Reference for information on running pmcadmin addrtm URL to integrate the RTM web pages.

  2. From the organizational tree in the Platform Console, click RTM.
  3. Provide the URL to the RTM Console.

    For example: http://host_name/cacti.

    Platform RTM options appear in the Platform Console organizational tree.