The Men&Mice Health Monitoring provides the administrator with valuable information he needs to maintain his systems and services. First, a good overview of the general health of Micetro and related services. More importantly, it will give the administrator an indication if there is a problem that needs to be acted on and corrected, for example if there is a slave zone that is expiring or if there is a zone that has not been loaded on a server due to an error. Both cases can cause outages for users and therefore be a serious impact for the business.
The health status is displayed to the user from the health bar which is positioned at the bottom of the management console window. The status indicators are split into five categories
- Micetro
- DNS
- DHCP
- IPAM
- Appliance
A color code is used to represent the severity of the error. If an indicator in any of those categories has a warning or error, it is shown as yellow or red, respectively; otherwise as green. The health bar can be expanded and then the indicator subcategories are shown and more details can be obtained about the health indicators. More importantly, details about each error are given in a separate window where a detailed description about the error is given and also the administrator is given the opportunity to navigate to the object that is affected and from there, fix the error.
The health bar has been expanded by clicking the up arrow in the upper right corner of the health bar. There, it can be seen the there are errors in 'DNS Zones' and 'Server Controllers' and a warning in 'Version'.Category | Subcategory | Description |
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Appliance | Appliance health | An indication is given if an appliance is unreachable. |
In any case of an warning or error above, there will be a detailed description of the error or warning, and a way to navigate to the proper place to fix an error/warning.
By right clicking a status indicator in the health bar and selecting 'ignore', that status indicator can be ignored.
In this window more details about the status indicator can be seen. Following are descriptions about what each column shows.
- Message
Details about the error / warning for this indicator
- Object
Name of the object that the error / warning is related to
- First seen
The date of which the error / warning was first seen
Right clicking an indicator will show a context menu with the following items (where applicable):
- Show in manager window: Show the specific item in the manager window
- Open: Opens a specific object, for example a scope
- Reconnect: Reconnects to an already disconnected server
The system health monitoring can be disabled completely by setting an advanced system option. See console-advanced-settings
for more details.