System

From the MVLNX easy menu, hyperlink on the System option to view the System Easy Menu (EZLSYSR). From the System Easy Menu , you can access views regarding key performance areas of your system.

From the System Easy Menu, you can hyperlink to overall kernel activity and Inter-Process Communication (IPC) information.

Processes

Hyperlink on the Process option from the MVLNX easy menu to access the Processes Easy Menu (EZLPRCSR). The Processes Easy Menu provides access to views that contain data regarding process activity.

The Processes Easy Menu is divided into activity information and general information. Activity options lead you to information about specific process activity, including resource usage. General options provide more general information about a process, including parent/child relationships of processes and parameters.

Filesystems

The Filesystems Easy Menu, EZLFSYSR, contains hyperlinks to detailed information about mounted file systems.

EZLFSYSR allows you to access information regarding mounted file systems. Data about all file systems includes mount information and directory listings.

Users

The User Activity Easy Menu, EZLUSRSR, contains hyperlinks to detailed information regarding individual users, groups, and users that are logged in to a monitored Linux system.

Configuration

The Configuration Easy Menu, EZLCONFR, contains hyperlinks to configuration views that show system information and system tuning parameters.

Linux provides a sysctl function that allows you to dynamically modify some system parameters. You can hyperlink from the submenus listed under the System Parameters heading on the EZLCONFR Easy Menu to display a dialog where you can enter new parameter values.

Press PF3/END to submit the sysctl command to the specified Linux image.

For example, in Configuration Easy Menu , if you hyperlink on the General Kernel view:

Enter the sysctl command on the COMMAND line.

You can enter new values and press PF3/END to submit the new values.

You can view a list of the sysctl actions on the Linux Management Actions EZMENU submenus EZLSYSC and EZLSYSCN.

Alarm management

Alarm Manager contains a series of views, beginning with the Alarm Management Easy Menu, EZALARMS.

Hyperlink to other views from the MVALARM Easy Menu to display alarms or to edit or view alarm definitions.

When you add or edit an alarm definition, you can customize alarm messages, threshold levels, monitoring frequency, and the action that is taken when an alarm occurs.

For more information about Alarm Manager, see Alarm-Manager.

Environment settings for Linux

MainView for Linux — Servers also provides the Environment Settings easy menu to access your environmental settings, EZLENV.

With EZLENV, you can change your target, Single System Image (SSI) context, real-time/interval mode, and product. For more information, see BMC AMI Ops Infrastructure.

Navigating to the Linux Image Easy Menu

The SYLOVRZR view provides easy access to information about all of the Linux system images that are being monitored and allows you select a specific Linux image. Once you select a Linux image, you can display the Image Easy Menu for the image.

1. To access the Image Easy Menu for a Linux image from the MVLNX or MVLNXV Easy Menu, hyperlink from Linux Image Status to display the SYLOVRZR view.
   The SYLOVRZR view contains a list of available Linux images.

   >W1  =SYLOVRZR==========LNX01JJ==*========DDMMMYYYY==10:57:35====MVLNX====D====8
   CMD  Image  VMSystem VelocityStatus        %CPU                  %Mem
   ---  -------- -------- Node     --------        0.....50...100        0...50.100
        LNX01KR  SYSLBMC  LNX01KR  Inactive
        LNX01CC  SYSLBMC  LNX01CCInactive
        LNX01CS. SYSLBMC  LNX01CSInactive
        LNX01SC  SYSLBMC  LNX01SCInactive
        LNX01JJ  SYSLBMC  LNX01JJRunning    0.17                98.25
        LNX04JJ  SYSLBMC  LNX04JJRunning    0.03                80.85
        LNX02JJ  SYSLBMC  N/A      Running    0.02                51.70
        LNX03JJ  N/A      N/A      Running                         95.29

2. Place the cursor under an image name and press Enter.

   The Image Easy Menu (EZLIMAGR) is displayed for the selected Linux image.

   Use this menu to display additional information about the selected Linux image.

   >W1  =EZLIMAGR==========LNX01JJ==*========DDMMMYYYY==11:06:31====MVLNX====D====1
                                    Image Easy Menu
                                 Time frame - Realtime
              Current Image ->        LNX01CC
                  Host Name     ->
   
   
        Activity                +----------------------+    Configuration
      . System                  |  Place cursor on   |  . System
      . CPU                     |  menu item and     |  . Network Interfaces
      . Swap                    |  press ENTER       |  . Disks
      . Kernel Tables           +----------------------+  . Disk Controllers
      . Network                           . Partitions
      . Disk
      . Syslog                     Information              System Parameters
      . Linux Test               . Mounted File Systems   . General Kernel
      . Processes Overview       . Directory Listing      . File System
      . Process Resource Usage   . List of Biggest Files  . Virtual Memory
      . Required Processes                                > Network
      . Process Tree             . User Ids
      . Process Cmd/Path         . Logins                 > Linux Monitor Easy Menu
                              > Linux Monitor Fast Menu
      . Users                    . Shared Memory          > Linux Management Action
      . Groups                   . Msg Queues             . Add/Edit Linux Rules
                 . Semaphores             . Linux SHELL Command
      . Shared Memory                       . Linux PTF Update
      . Msg Queues               . Linux Image Status     . Linux Help
      . Semaphores              . z/VM System Status     . Return...