Group and system monitoring dashboards

The out-of-the-box dashboard for both groups and systems are very similar and hence, this section will cover the one for the system target. Differences, if any, between the system and the group target dashboards will be highlighted for the benefit of the reader.

As seen already in this chapter OEM Grid Control provides out-of-the-box dashboards for monitoring group and system targets. These reports provide an overview of the health of the corresponding composite target. In a single view it provides the capability to gauge the health using the key performance indicators of the system. The out-of-the-box system dashboard can be navigated to from multiple locations. The simplest of these is by going to the home page of the relevant system target and then clicking on the Launch Dashboard button.

The previous image shows the dashboard of the TravelPortal-CarRental-System. The dashboard lists all the member targets and their corresponding types in a tabular...