Server views

The Server views enable you to manage the capacity and performance of the following systems:

  • UNIX or Windows machines running directly on hardware with agent data collection. These systems appear as Generic type in BMC Helix Capacity Optimization.
  • Windows or Linux virtual machines with agent data collection from inside the virtual machines. These systems appear as Virtual Node type in BMC Helix Capacity Optimization.
  • UNIX partitions with agent data collection from inside the partitions. These systems appear as Virtual Machine type in BMC Helix Capacity Optimization.

Certified data sources

 The certified data sources for these views are as follows:

  • BMC - TrueSight Capacity Optimization Gateway VIS files parser
  • BMC - TrueSight Operations Management extractors

You must configure and run one of these ETL modules to import data into the view. For more information, see BMC-TrueSight-Capacity-Optimization-Gateway-VIS-files-parser and  BMC-TrueSight-Operations-Management-10-1-10-5-10-7-11-0-11-3-Generic-extractor.

Information

Certain metrics are required for these views. If the metrics are not imported, then corresponding columns are blank. Particularly, for Data Explorer view for this platform, you must import specific metrics for some of the charts to be available.

For a list of all the metrics in a view, see the required topic in the following views:

Data visibility

The Server views display data for all systems of the following types:

  • Generic
  • Virtual Machine - AIX LPAR
  • Virtual Machine - AIX Shared Processor LPAR
  • Virtual Machine - AIX VIO LPAR
  • Virtual Machine - HP Integrity
  • Virtual Machine - Solaris LDOM
  • Virtual Node - Hyper-V
  • Virtual Node - KVM
  • Virtual Node - VMware
  • Virtual Node - Xen

Note

The virtual machines of the AIX LPAR, AIX Shared Processor LPAR, and AIX VIO LPAR system types are displayed only when the LPAR_INSTRUMENTED value is true in the AIX PowerVM Partitions page. LPAR_INSTRUMENTED=true indicates that an agent has been deployed inside the LPAR to collect configuration and performance data.

Video

The following video (3:29) provides a brief introduction of the Server views.

Information

This video describes the functionality of TrueSight Capacity Optimization, but it is valid for BMC Helix Capacity Optimization too.

icon-play.pnghttps://youtu.be/J02QLY5vk8g

Using the views

 

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