About monitoring health

Hewlett Packard Enterprise recommends the following best practices to monitor the health of the resources in your environment.

General health monitoring steps

Monitoring step

Related information

  1. Navigate to the Activity screen and filter activities, using the filtering options that work best for the situation.

    You can also start from the Dashboard screen to see alerts for specific resources.

  2. Navigate to a specific resource screen to view the specific activities for that resource.

    On the resource screen, verify the state of the resource instances through health status icons.

  3. Investigate each resource instance with a warning or error status.

  4. Expand critical and warning alerts to see their full descriptions, and click Event details to view additional information about one or more events that caused the alert.

  5. Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.
    NOTE:

    If an alert is Active and no action is required, you can clear the alert. If an alert is Locked, you cannot clear the alert without fixing the condition that caused it.

Activity

Dashboard

Icon descriptions

View an activity

Server hardware health monitoring

For server hardware with a Critical or Warning status, the associated server profile might be in failed state, so you need to verify it as well.

Monitoring step

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  1. Expand the server hardware alert to see more information. You can view alerts from the Server Hardware screen, Activity screen, or the Dashboard screen.

  2. Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.

  3. Ensure that the server profile was properly assigned to the server hardware.

Server Hardware screen details

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Create and apply a server profile

Network health monitoring

To monitor the current health of a network, navigate to the Interconnects and Logical Interconnects resources to view recent activity, alerts and notifications, and current health status.

  • For interconnects, a healthy state is Configured

  • For logical interconnects, a healthy state for stacking is Redundantly Connected

Monitoring step

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  1. View the activities and states for logical interconnects.

    View the health of Downlink ports and Uplink ports on the Interconnects screen. View the Stacking mode of the interconnects on the Logical Interconnects screen.

  2. Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.

About interconnects

About logical interconnects

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Interconnect health monitoring

HPE OneView administrators can monitor the overall health of each interconnect in the system. To check the current health status of an interconnect, navigate to Interconnects > General menu, and check Interconnect health.

Monitoring step

Related information

  1. View the states for the interconnects.

  2. Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.

About interconnects

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Enclosure health monitoring

The enclosure health includes the status of enclosure infrastructure, such as fans, power supplies, appliances, Onboard Administrator, or Frame Link Module. To check the current health status of an enclosure, navigate to Enclosures > General menu. For enclosures, a healthy state is Monitored or Managed.

The health of an enclosure does not include the status of contained resources, such as blades and interconnects.