The Infrastructure page is a consolidated multisystem view that can show Health, Inventory, Capacity, and Performance views for each of the supported Dell platforms. The Health page displays the Proactive Health Score for all systems across all products in a consolidated view. There are up to six available platforms to choose: Converged, Data Protection, HCI, Networking, Servers, and Storage. Users can quickly identify the systems at highest risk, including the number of issues in each category that make up the health score.

Infrastructure Observability uses up to five categories to determine the Proactive Health Score presented on the Infrastructure Health page: Components, Configuration, Capacity, Performance, and Data Protection. 

Note:

• PowerMax and VMAX systems do not include health issues in the Components or Data Protection categories. Observability displays a dash (—) for these categories.
• PowerVault systems do not include the Performance or Data Protection categories. Observability displays a dash (—) for these categories.
• VxRail systems, APEX Hybrid Cloud Services, and APEX Private Cloud Services do not include the Data Protection category.

Each system has a health score displayed in the circle (ranging from 100 to 0) which is calculated as 100 minus the issue with the greatest impact. Each of the five categories has either a green check mark, a negative number, or a dash. The green check indicates no issues are present for that category. A negative number represents the deduction for the most impactful issue in the category. A dash indicates that the category is not supported for that system type. This approach is intended to help users focus on the most significant issue for the system, so that they can resolve the issue to improve the health score.

The Health Score range is as follows:

• Good = 95–100 (Green)
• Fair = 71–94 (Yellow)
• Poor = 0–70 (Red)

The Health Score is displayed in the color that corresponds to the range. Blue coloring with a dash instead of a number indicates a system that has recently been added to Observability and does not yet have a calculated health score. Gray coloring with a number indicates a connectivity issue which leads to an uncertain health score. In this case, the user should check the system connectivity.

The Card view, shown previously for both Storage and Networking, is the default view for this page. Users can choose the List view by selecting the List View Icon () in the upper right of the window. The list view is shown on the next page for Storage. This view may be more useful for larger environments because it allows for a more condensed view of the information and the ability to sort columns. Users can view and edit custom tags from either the Card view or the List view. Custom tags are covered in detail in the Custom Tags section.

Users can also export the data from many of the views in Observability to a CSV file by selecting the Export CSV icon in the upper right of the view. Exporting the data from any of the multisystem views exports the data from the Health, Inventory, Capacity, and Performance pages.

Users can filter the systems in both the Card View and List View by selecting the Filter icon and entering in various criteria. The available criteria vary based on the view, but examples include System Name, Product Type, Heath Score, Custom Tag, Site Name, and Location. The filter settings stay in effect until the user clears the filter or logs out of the UI.

Each view provides the following information:

• Score – Proactive Health Score for system
• Name – User-defined name of system
• Model – Specific model of system
• Serial number – Unique serial number or identifier for the system

Selecting an individual system from either the card view or list view navigates the user to the system details page. These pages are discussed for each system type later in this paper.