Using Management Center Health Monitor

You must be an Admin, Maintenance, or Security Analyst user to perform this procedure.

The management center monitor provides a detailed view of the health status of the management center. The health monitor is composed of:

  • High Availability (if configured)―The High Availability (HA) panel displays the current HA status, including the status of the Active and Standby units, the last sync time, and overall device health.

  • Event Rate―The Event Rate panel shows the maximum event rate as a base line as well as the overall event rate received by the management center.

  • Event Capacity―The Event Capacity panel shows the current consumption by event categories, including the retention time of events, the current vs. maximum event capacity, and a capacity overflow mechanism where you are alerted when events are stored beyond the configured maximum capacity of the management center.

  • Process Health―The Process Health panel has an at-a-glace view of the critical processes as well as a tab that lets you see state of all processed, including the CPU and memory usage for each process.

  • CPU―The CPU panel lets you toggle between the average CPU usage (default) and the CPU usage of all cores.

  • Memory―The Memory panel shows the overall memory usage on the management center.

  • Interface―The Interface panel shows average input and output rate of all interfaces.

  • Disk Usage―The Disk Usage panel shows the use of entire disk, and the use of the critical partitions where management center data is stored.

  • Hardware Statistics―The hardware statistics shows the fan speed, power supply, and temperature of the management center chassis. For more information, see Hardware Statistics on Management Center.

Tip

Your session normally logs you out after 1 hour of inactivity (or another configured interval). If you plan to passively monitor health status for long periods of time, consider exempting some users from session timeout, or changing the system timeout settings.

Procedure

Step 1

Choose System (system gear icon) > Health > Monitor.

Step 2

Use the Monitoring navigation pane to access the management center and device-specific health monitors.

  • A standalone management center is shown as a single node; a high-availability management center is shown as a pair of nodes.

  • The health monitor is available to both the active and standby management center in an HA pair.

Step 3

Explore the management center dashboard.

The management center dashboard includes a summary view of the HA state of the management center (if configured), as well as at-a-glance views of management center processes and device metrics such as CPU, memory, and disk usage.