## About Monitoring Devices

You can use the system monitoring software to review all FRU-level information and to access the components of a selected device.

In addition, you can control agent activity to temporarily stop the diagnostic and monitoring software from running on a selected device. You can also avoid creating email notifications on false errors when a device is being tested and faults are being injected intentionally.

Instrumentation agents are very different from one another because they are specialized modules designed to probe a specific type of device. Each instrumentation agent produces reports and, when available, reads new entries into the logs accessed by the /var/adm/messages function.

Options from the Device page include:

- Summary Report describes the selected device.
- Alarms displays a summary of actionable events.
- Event Log displays all events generated against the selected device.
- Report displays, in detail, all monitored attributes for the selected device.
- Alarms & Graph displays a graphical view of the device and its connections.

### Related Topics

- Starting and Stopping Monitoring Agents
- Running Agents Manually
- Starting and Stopping Monitoring on a Device
- Monitoring Devices Using the Device Summary Report
- Monitoring Device Alarms
- Displaying the Event Log for a Specific Device
- Monitoring Devices Using the Alarms & Graph Report