Monitor views
Use the Monitors task to monitor critical system resources on your managed systems. IBM® Flex System Manager arranges available monitors in groups called monitor views. Each view represents a list of the most commonly available monitors in a category, for example, monitors that are supported by AIX®. Use existing monitor views or create your own views that contain the selections of individual monitors that you find useful.
Several factors determine the availability of individual monitors in a monitor view. Determining factors might include the operating system, hardware configuration, or software configuration of the managed resource. Depending on those factors, some monitors included in a view might be unavailable in your environment.
When you create a monitor view, the Create View page presents all the available monitors in each category, not just the most common monitors. Creating your own monitor view makes available additional monitors that are not in the commonly used sets of monitors included in the default monitor views.
Polling intervals (or how often data collection is performed) for monitors depend on the managed system or device. In general, using the default settings, data collections occur every 5 - 10 seconds, and the display refreshes every 10 - 20 seconds. Polling intervals affect the minimum granularity and timeliness of any thresholds applied to a monitor.