System Health Insights User Guide

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Product(s): Appliances (Version Not Specified)
Platform: NetBackup Appliance OS
  1. Introduction
    1.  
      Veritas System Health Insights for Appliance Fleet Management
    2.  
      About Veritas AutoSupport and Call Home
    3.  
      Understanding the System Reliability Scores (SRS)
    4.  
      How the SRS is calculated
  2. Getting Started
    1.  
      Prerequisites
    2.  
      Launching and Accessing System Health Insights
    3.  
      System Health Insights home page
  3. Registering an Appliance
    1.  
      Overview of the appliance registration process
    2.  
      Registering an appliance
    3.  
      Tracking registration and other tasks
  4. Associating the Team, Site, and Contacts with appliances
    1.  
      Associating a Team
    2. Associating a Site
      1.  
        Adding a new site
      2.  
        Associating the new site with the appliance
    3. Associating the Contact(s)
      1.  
        Adding and associating a new contact
  5. Managing the Sites, Contacts, and Teams
    1.  
      Managing sites
    2.  
      Managing contacts
    3. Managing teams
      1.  
        Managing the team as an Administrator
      2.  
        Viewing the team as a Standard or a Read Only member
  6. Searching within System Health Insights
    1.  
      About Searching an appliance
    2.  
      Basic Search
    3. Advanced Search, Filters, and Queries
      1.  
        Query Builder
      2.  
        Advanced Query
    4.  
      Flex Instance Details
    5.  
      Saving a Query
    6.  
      Creating a Query Dashboard
  7. Actions on the Appliance List search results
    1.  
      Common actions on the Appliance List
    2.  
      Bulk Edit Registration Actions
    3.  
      Add or Remove Labels
    4.  
      Managing the data restriction mode for single or multiple appliances
    5.  
      Unregister the appliances
    6.  
      Decommissioning the appliances
  8. Globally accessible menus
    1.  
      Common functions in System Health Insights
    2. Setting Preferences
      1.  
        Global Preference
      2.  
        Saved Queries and Favorites
      3.  
        Table Columns
      4.  
        Manage Alerts
  9. Activity History
    1.  
      Viewing the Activity History
    2.  
      Marking the activities as Favorites
    3.  
      Viewing the Favorites
  10. My Query Dashboard
    1.  
      About 'My Query Dashboard'
    2. Overview
      1.  
        Site Health Summary
      2.  
        Version Insights
      3.  
        Registration Status
      4.  
        Entitlement
      5.  
        Unresolved Events
      6.  
        Recommendations
      7.  
        Call Home status
      8.  
        Capacity Utilization
      9.  
        System Reliability Scores
    3.  
      Appliance List tab
    4.  
      Unresolved Events tab
    5.  
      Recommendations tab
  11. Account Dashboard
    1.  
      About the account dashboard
  12. Appliance Dashboard
    1.  
      About the Appliance Dashboard
    2. Overview cards
      1.  
        System Reliability Score
      2.  
        Flex Instance Status
      3.  
        Storage Utilization
      4.  
        Entitlement
      5.  
        Registration Detail
      6.  
        Call Home Status
      7.  
        Recommendations
      8.  
        Unresolved Events
      9.  
        Labels
      10.  
        Network Summary
      11.  
        Nodes Summary
      12.  
        Disks Summary
    3.  
      Recommendations
    4. Monitoring
      1.  
        Storage
      2.  
        Performance
      3.  
        Services
    5. System
      1.  
        Configuration
      2.  
        Inventory
      3.  
        Events
    6.  
      Upgrade Center
    7. Support
      1.  
        Registration Details
      2.  
        Case History
      3.  
        Access Key
  13. Appliance Update Management
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Upgrade Readiness Index
    3.  
      Upgrade Center
    4.  
      Patch Management
    5.  
      Monitoring
  14. Security Insights
    1.  
      Introduction
    2.  
      Security controls on an Appliance dashboard
    3.  
      Security Insights summary on an Account or a Query dashboard
    4.  
      Security Insights details on an Account or a Query dashboard
  15. Managing alerts
    1.  
      About managing alerts
    2.  
      Call Home transmission failure alerts
    3.  
      Receiving the Call Home transmission alert Email
    4.  
      System Reliability Score (SRS) alert
    5.  
      Capacity Utilization alert
  16. Frequently Asked Questions
    1.  
      Frequently Asked Questions

How the SRS is calculated

The SRS is computed as the weighted average of the score of multiple factors such as, System Config Drift, Storage Forecast, Unresolved Events, Missing Emergency Engineering Binaries (EEBs), i.e. patches or hotfixes, Hazardous Configurations, and so on. Then a penalty for each of these factors is subtracted from the total score of 100 points.

The SRS score ranges from 0 to 100 representing the overall reliability and serviceability of the system. A higher SRS indicates better Veritas appliance availability, reduced unplanned downtime, rapid fault detection and resolution, and overall lower costs of remediation.

Penalties are subtracted for the following factors that affect the total SRS of 100 points:

Penalty

Description

Unresolved events penalty

Number of unresolved events observed for the system.

Storage forecast penalty

One or more storage volumes are forecasted to be at the risk of reaching their maximum storage capacity.

Config drift penalty

Drift or deviation observed between the actual hardware/software configurations of the system from its ideal recommended configuration for a model.

Missing patch/hotfix penalty

Absence of one or more patches or hotfixes that were recommended for the system.

Hazardous configuration penalty

Presence of hazardous configurations observed on the system. This penalty is a compound risk analysis for certain configuration drift detections that identify potential known contributors to data loss, data unavailability, or premature component failure.

Memory configuration analysis penalty

Inadequate and/or invalid memory footprint observed on the system.

Missing plugin penalty

One or more AutoSupport plugins are not reporting data.

Call Home penalty

System observed to be not calling home in the last specific number of hours.

Support contract penalty

Inadequate support level, or the support contract is at the risk of expiry. It also considers if the hardware is approaching End of Support Life (EOSL).

The SRS scores are rated as:

  • Poor - from 0 to 69

  • Okay - from 70 to 84

  • Good - from 85 to 94

  • Excellent - from 95 to 100

The insights offered by the SRS and recommendations allow the system administrators to ideally avoid, or proactively support a wide range of potential issues before they occur.

Refer to the Appliance Dashboard - Recommendations section for more information.

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