Server Administrator Instrumentation Service monitors
the health of a system and provides rapid access to detailed fault
and performance information gathered by industry-standard systems
management agents. The reporting and viewing features allow retrieval
of the overall health status for each chassis that includes your system.
At the subsystem level, you can view information about the voltages,
temperatures, fan rpm, and memory function at key points in the system.
A detailed account of every relevant cost of ownership (COO) detail
about your system can be seen in the summary view. Version information
for BIOS, firmware, operating system, and all installed systems management
software can also be retrieved.
Also, system administrators can use the Instrumentation
Service to perform the following essential tasks:
Specify minimum and maximum values for certain critical
components. The values, called thresholds, determine the range in
which a warning event for that component occurs (minimum and maximum
failure values are specified by the system manufacturer).
Specify how the system responds when a warning or
failure event occurs. Users can configure the actions that a system
takes in response to notifications of warning and failure events.
Alternatively, users who have around-the-clock monitoring can specify
that no action is to be taken and rely on human judgment to select
the best action in response to an event.
Populate all the user-specifiable values for the
system, such as the name of the system, the phone number of the system's
primary user, the depreciation method, whether the system is leased
or owned.