Database Support: Exalogic Managing Machine

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Exalogic Managing Machine - Part 5

Viewing the Photorealistic Representation of Exalogic Machine

The photorealistic view is a representation of the Exalogic physical rack. The front and the rear views of the rack are displayed in this view. You can see the rack layout with all of its components. All the slots and the respective assets are accurately displayed. Each asset in the rack is represented by an image.

The health status of the assets, such as “OK”, “Warning”, or “Critical”, are displayed in the form of coloured lights, that match the physical rack, almost like a photograph. This means that you don’t have to physically be in front of the machine, in order to see how it is running. You could be some distance away from the physical machine, and still see a photorealistic representation of the health status of the assets. The OK status is shown in green, whilst the warning and critical statuses are shown in yellow. You can hover the mouse over the slots in the rack to view information about the health etc of the specific assets.

The type of information that you can view by hovering the mouse over the slot, is the:

-> Slot number

-> Asset name

-> Description

-> Type of asset

-> Model number of the asset

-> The health status of the asset

A question mark in any of the slots indicates a discrepancy from the baseline chack.

To see the photorealistic view of the rack, there are a few steps to perform:

1.) ON the Navigation plane, under Assets, select Exalogic Systems

2.) Select a rack that you want to view

3.) In the center pane, click on the Details Tab