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 Continuous 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 Continuous Optimization.
  • UNIX partitions with agent data collection from inside the partitions. These systems appear as Virtual Machine type in BMC Helix Continuous Optimization.

Related topics

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Getting-started-with-Views

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The following image illustrates the capabilities of Server views:

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Video

The following video (3:29) provides a brief introduction of the Server views feature, which is available in both TrueSight Capacity Optimization and BMC Helix Continuous Optimization.

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

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-10-7-11-0-11-3-Generic-extractor.

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

Important

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.

Using the views

 

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