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Monitoring with Opsview

Monitoring with Opsview

By : Alan S Wijntje
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Monitoring with Opsview

Monitoring with Opsview

By: Alan S Wijntje

Overview of this book

Monitoring increasingly complex IT environments can pose quite a challenge. Virtualization and cloud-based applications are finding their way into many IT estates over the world. Keeping a watchful eye out for your infrastructure is now more important than ever, and Opsview allows you to do just that. Monitoring with Opsview is a practical guide to the entire Opsview product range, consisting of various examples and screenshots to help you get up and running with Opsview. This book will show you the powerful features and modules available in Opsview, and will help you create an Opsview-based monitoring system suited for your needs. Starting with the installation of your own Opsview Core system, we will then go through the basic configuration followed by the various special features of the system, using practical examples to show how we can make use of these features. After covering the Core system, we will later look at the Pro and Enterprise offerings and how their additional features can benefit you. You will learn about the unique features of Opsview like viewing (and interacting with) your IT estate from mobile devices like smartphones and tablets, creating special views with keywords, and using templates for fast configurations. From there, we will move on to the Pro and Enterprise systems, looking at the powerful modules available like distributed monitoring and reporting, and finishing it all off with a discussion of the eye-catching dashboards. Monitoring with Opsview will show you the power of the Opsview system, keywords, attributes, dashboards, and all the tools you need to get that single view into your entire IT estate.
Table of Contents (20 chapters)
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Monitoring with Opsview
Credits
About the Author
Acknowledgments
About the Reviewers
www.PacktPub.com
Preface
7
Designing a Monitoring Environment
1
Index

Using the Opsview help system and contextual menus


Now that we have our Opsview installation up and running, it's time to log in (http://your-opsview-system:3000) with the default username (admin) and password (initial).

During the course of this book, we will be looking at a lot of different items in Opsview. So keep an Opsview system close at hand to try out the various items we will be covering.

The first page we see once we log in is the main status screen, which at the moment will show only the Opsview host group. Simply drill down into the group to get more information about your Opsview system. At the top of the screen we have various menus we can open to perform various tasks in Opsview.

The first very important feature of Opsview is the help system, which we can use while configuring various items; the second is the contextual menu.

To see both in action, go to the settings menu (as shown in the following screenshot) and click on hosts in the Basic column.

This will bring up the host list. The host list shown in the following screenshot shows you all the hosts currently in Opsview. As it has been newly installed, only the default Opsview host is listed.

Contextual menu

If you look carefully at the host list, you will see a small arrow just after the Opsview icon. This small arrow is the contextual menu and it will appear on various pages and have various functions depending on the page you are looking at.

Have a go at checking the contextual menu in different pages under the monitoring menu, before returning to the host list.

Opsview help system

Now let's go back to the host list and select the Opsview host by clicking on the name.

By doing this we will enter the edit page for the host and you will see the various fields and tabs that are used to define a host. A small portion of the first screen is shown in the following screenshot:

Each field is preceded by a short text describing the field. Clicking on any of the descriptions will redirect you to a help page explaining the field and any restrictions it might have. This is the Opsview help system, and is available within all the pages in the settings menu.

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