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Understanding the Overview dashboard

The BMC AMI Ops User Interface Overview dashboard provides a look at the overall health of the BMC AMI Ops products on the Host Server.

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Using

Accessing the Overview dashboard

Sign in to BMC AMI Ops User Interface with your mainframe credentials, and see the Overview dashboard in one of the following ways:

  • If BMC AMI Ops Insight is installed, the Active Events page is displayed. From the navigation bar, click Alarms > Dashboards
  • If BMC AMI Ops Monitoring is installed without BMC AMI Ops Insight, the Overview dashboard is displayed.

The first time you access a dashboard, you need to connect to a Host Server. For more information, see Connecting-to-a-Host-Server.

Examining the Overview dashboard

The Overview dashboard provides the status of the BMC AMI Ops products in the Host Server. The products are grouped by technology, which is defined in the products.

Each technology widget displays the number of targets that were discovered and grouped by the technology and the following information:

  • Number of targets that are configured for the specified technology
  • Number of targets that are active (Up), inactive (Down), and unavailable (N/A)
  • Number of targets with alarms at critical and warning severities
  • Number of alarms at critical and warning severities

The color of the widget reflects the most severe current alarm.

The following image displays a sample technology widget:

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For the number of up, down, or not-available targets, click the number to see the following information about each target:

  • Sysplex
  • Status
  • Target
  • Technology
  • LPAR

Next to the alarm severity is the number of targets with active alarms and the number of active alarms on those targets:

  • Click a target number to see its information and the number of alarms on each target.
  • Click an alarm number to see the Active Alarms page, filtered for the specific targets and alarm severity:
    • Click the number next to Critical to see the page filtered by Critical and Major alarms.
    • Click the number next to Warning to see the page filtered by Minor and Warning alarms.
  • Click the total number of alarms to see all the active alarms.

Use the breadcrumbs at the top of the Active Alarms page to return to the dashboard:

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To filter the targets in the dashboard

You can filter the targets in the dashboard by the following criteria:

  • Current severity
  • Technology
  • LPAR

Click to enlarge the image.

opsui_dash_filters.png

Where to go from here

Click a hyperlink number and examine alarms in the BMC AMI Ops user interface.

You can also create a dashboard and add widgets.

 

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