Monitoring service metrics

Once the performance and usage metrics are defined along with their metric thresholds and collection intervals, the OEM Grid Control provides different features to monitor the metrics so defined.

Monitoring metrics in the service home page

While defining the performance and usage metrics for service targets, one metric of each type can be configured to be displayed in the service home page. This is provided for a quick reference so that the metric trends can be viewed alongside with availability, system information, and service test data. As discussed in the Chapter 4, the selected performance and usage metrics are displayed as charts in the Performance and Usage region within the service home page.

The previous image is a screenshot of the service home page for the generic service CarRentalService. As can be seen in the Performance and Usage region within the service home page, the performance and usage metrics are displayed as charts. The performance metric Total...