Network Overviews - Introduction


In addition to providing detailed information about an individual system, ServerAssist can summarise key information from all servers, and present this in a number of different formats. The ServerAssist overviews give summarised and aggregated information from all connected computers, showing key information for all those computers.

The summaries provide colour-coded status indicators to allow an 'at a glance' review of the whole network.

  • The network overview report provides a single page summary the overall network state, divided into a number of sections.
  • The group summary report displays consolidated key indicators across the computers in each group, and displays a grid of status information, together with metrics underlying that information.
  • The system summary list displays one icon for each connected system, with the colour of the icon indicating the 'worst' key indicator state for that system.
  • The computer summary report breaks down the key indicators for each connected computer, and displays a grid of status information, together with the metrics underlying the status information.

The aggregated information brings together data from all connected computers, merged and sorted, and presents it as a single view.

  • The merged alert list contains all alerts for all connected computers. The status of alerts can be changed, alerts can be deleted, and notes can be added.
  • The merged event logs report shows events from all connected computers, merged so that all events are presented in chronological order. If required, events can be merged by log type.

Often, there is a requirement for information about the servers on the network that does not fit into either of these categories, because a particular, detailed aspect of operation is needed for a number of computers, or because several computers need to be examined as if they were a single machine.

  • Composite reports take disparate information from multiple computers, and display all sections in a single page.
  • Merged event log reports shows events from one or more connected computers, merged so that all events are presented in chronological order. Furthermore, events can be merged by log type.