OpenManage Integration for VMware vCenter Version 5.2 User's Guide

Health

The dashboard displays the following:

• Health status of hosts and chassis
• Warranty status of hosts and chassis
• License information of Hosts and vCenter
• Configuration compliance status of hosts
• States of jobs that are scheduled using OMIVV
• Bare-metal servers available for deployment
• Quick references to OMIVV features

The Health section displays the health of all OMIVV-managed hosts and chassis. All hosts that are displayed here are configured using the same Platform Service Controller (PSC).

The status of each host and chassis refreshes after the completion of a periodic health metric task or SNMP event (triggers health metric job for specific host or chassis) from host and chassis.

By default, the health metric task runs after every hour. The displayed data is used to monitor Proactive HA health and health update for server and chassis at Dashboard. The details of the job will be available at Logs.

The following list describes the different states of the hosts and the chassis:

• Healthy—Displays the count of host and chassis that are in healthy state.
• Warning—Displays the count of host and chassis that require corrective action, but do not immediately affect the system.
• Critical—Displays the count of host and chassis that have critical issues with one or more components and require immediate action.
• Unknown—Displays the count of host and chassis that are in unknown state. The host or chassis shows Unknown state when the host or chassis is not reachable or health state is unknown.

To view more information about hosts, on the Dashboard page, under the Health section, click VIEW HOST.

To view more information about chassis, on the Dashboard page, under the Health section, click VIEW CHASSIS.

Warranty

The number of hosts that are displayed under this warranty category indicates the hosts that belong to vCenter servers configured using the PSC. To get the warranty information about host and chassis, ensure that you enabled the warranty expiration notification on the Settings page.

For host with multiple or different warranties (for example, warranty types such as Next Business Day (NBD) and Parts Only Warranty (POW)), OMIVV displays the status based on the warranty type that has the least number of warranty days left.

The Warranty section provides the following information about hosts and chassis:

• Healthy—Displays the number of hosts and chassis for which remaining warranty days are above warning threshold.
• Warning—Displays the number of hosts and chassis for which remaining warranty days are below warning threshold.
• Critical—Displays the number of hosts and chassis for which remaining warranty days are below critical threshold.
• Unknown—Displays the number of hosts and chassis whose warranty is unknown.

To identify the hosts that are in Healthy, Warning, Critical, and Unknown states, do the following:

1. Go to Hosts and Clusters.
2. To view the health status of host at cluster-level, select a cluster, and then click Monitor > OMIVV Cluster Information > Warranty.
3. To view the health status of host at data center-level, select a data center, and then click Monitor > OMIVV Datacenter Information > Warranty.

Licenses

The Licenses section displays the following information:

• Count of all hosts and vCenter license
• Count of available host and vCenter licenses
• Count of host and vCenter licenses that are in use.

To purchase license, on the Dashboard page, under the Licenses section, click BUY LICENCE.

Ready for Deployment

This section only the compliant bare-metal servers that are discovered using OMIVV. To deploy the bare-metal servers, click DEPLOY.

Configuration Compliance

This section displays the hosts that are part of cluster (associated with the cluster profile). The hosts that are displayed here are configured using the same Platform Service Controller (PSC).

To view the configuration compliance status of hosts, click VIEW COMPLIANCE.

Jobs

This section displays the jobs that are scheduled using OMIVV. You can view the job details only for last 7 days.

The pie chart displays the total number of jobs in Successful, In Progress, Failed, Scheduled, and Cancelled states. To filter the job states in the pie chart, click the job states.

You can view count of following jobs that are in Successful, In progress, Failed, Scheduled, and Canceled states:

• Deployment Jobs

  For more information, see Deployment jobs.
  

• Host Firmware Update Jobs

  For more information, see Host firmware update jobs.
  

• Chassis Firmware Update Jobs

  For more information, see Chassis firmware update jobs.

• System Lockdown Jobs

  For more information, see System Lockdown Mode jobs.
  

To view the status of all the jobs, click VIEW ALL JOBS.

Quick References

This section provides the quick references to the following features:

• Start Initial Configuration Wizard

  For more information, see Initial configuration
  

• Host Credential Profile

  For more information, see Host credential profile
  

• Management Compliance

  For more information, see Management Compliance

• Chassis Credential Profile

  For more information, see Chassis credential profile
  

• Cluster Profile

  For more information, see Cluster profile
  

• Deployment

  For more information, see Deployment checklist