Monitoring hardware from IBM Fusion HCI user interface

The IBM Fusion HCI user interface provides an enhanced hardware monitoring experience. With hardware monitoring, you can quickly determine a hardware component in the IBM Fusion HCI that needs your attention.

Hardware monitoring provides overall and individual health and inventory information of servers and switches, and their components such as CPUs, DIMMs, Storage Drives, Adapters, Fans, PSUs.

Go to Infrastructure > Overview in the IBM Fusion HCI user interface to view the graphical view of the hardware appliance. Under the Resource summary section, you can find the total number of nodes, switches, and service node along with their health statuses. Hover over a graphical view of the hardware appliance to identify units in the rack. Also, you can zoom in and out to easily focus on specific sections of the rack for detailed inspection and use Add rack to add extra racks and useful when there are more than three racks to look at.
  • For node, it shows the name of the hardware, the health status, the type of node, inventory, and the rack unit.
  • For switch, it shows the name of hardware, the health status, the type of switch, inventory, and the rack unit.
  • For service node, it shows the name hardware, the health status, the type of node, inventory, and the rack unit.

In a graphical view of the IBM Fusion HCI rack, the color of the hardware component represents the health status. Additionally, you can view the different colors and their prominence under the graphical view of the hardware appliance. The nodes and switches are shown as per their appropriate locations in the actual physical rack. For more information on rack unit numbers and location, see Hardware overview.

The following picture shows a sample Overview dashboard page with a single rack. In this example, the rack shows degraded state for management switch in Rack Unit 18 and critical state for a storage node at Rack Unit 8 and high speed switch at Rack Unit 20.

Figure 1. Overview page showing a rack and its components
the rack shows degraded state for AFM node in RU23 and critical state for a storage node at RU15.
The following figure shows a base and expansion rack setup. In this example, the power supply is lost for management switch in base rack at Rack Unit 18 and storage node in expansion rack at Rack Unit 2:
Figure 2. Base and expansion rack with critical errors
Picture shows a base rack and expansion rack. The base rack RU 19 shows a critical error and in the expansion rack RU 7 shows a critical error.
You can identify the node that has a hardware issue based on the legend displayed in the IBM Fusion HCI user interface:
  • The color green indicates that the status of the hardware is in normal and healthy state.
  • The color red indicates critical errors in the hardware and needs attention.
  • The color gray indicates that the hardware is in inactive and power off state.
  • The color blue with diagonal stripes indicates that an action is in progress on the hardware, such as power up, power down, or a firmware upgrade.
  • The color yellow denotes warning.

For more information about and node and switch monitoring, see Node monitoring and Switch monitoring.