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


	NOTE: You can view health and alerts on some monitored servers. See the HPE OneView Support Matrix for more information on monitored server hardware.

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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.	Activity Dashboard
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 via health status icons. Investigate each resource instance with a warning or error status.	Icon descriptions
Expand critical and warning alerts to see their full descriptions, and click Event details to view additional information about the event(s) that caused the alert.	View an activity
Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.

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.

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Expand the server hardware alert to see more information. You can view alerts from the Server Hardware screen, Activity screen, or the Dashboard screen.	Server Hardware screen details View an activity
Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.
Ensure the server profile was properly assigned to the server hardware.	Create and apply a server profile

Monitoring step

Related information

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

Server Hardware screen details

View an activity

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

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

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	Related information
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.	About interconnects About logical interconnects
Follow the instructions in the recommended resolution (if any) or research the alert to correct the problem.	View an activity

Monitoring step

Related information

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.

About interconnects

About logical interconnects

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

View an activity

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