Health Monitoring Dashboards
New PowerHA Modern Web Interface
We recently announced a modern web interface for PowerHA on IBM i 7.4 and 7.5. This new modern web interface will provide at-a-glance health information from a web browser. Additional information on this new interface will be available in December. We recommend utilizing the new web interface built into PowerHA instead of Fortra’s Insite and Insite Analytics. The instructions below will remain for existing installations and those looking for examples of utilizing PowerHA SQL services in other monitoring products.
See Configuring the PowerHA Web Interface for additional information.
PowerHA by design requires minimal ongoing monitoring, management, and maintenance. With PowerHA dashboards, ongoing monitoring is simplified even more. Dashboards enable administrators to see any errors or warnings that may affect their business continuity. These dashboards can be configured to show PowerHA information alongside information from other products and can be configured to show multiple PowerHA environments on one screen.
Before You Begin
The dashboards are delivered as part of Fortra’s Insite and Insite Analytics - a free offering from Fortra. Insite and Insite Analytics must be installed prior to following the steps below. For more information on Insite see the following information:
These dashboards require the following PowerHA versions: 7.4 HA 4.3.1 7.2 HA 3.5
Procedure
Open Insite Analytics
Log in to the Insite Server
Open the Insite Analytics Product
Creating Data Connections
Data connections define the link between the SQL queries, the different systems and databases across the network where the data is stored. Follow the steps in this section to create data connections between Insite Analytics and the PowerHA cluster nodes.
Tip: You must add a Data Connection for at least one node in each PowerHA cluster. Data connections are not necessary for every node in a PowerHA cluster. Insite Analytics displays data as it is transmitted by the nodes with a data connection.
Add a data connection for at least one node in each cluster that will be on a dashboard