Monitoring hosts and baremetal servers
The same datacenter context, with or without cluster membership.
Organize your inventory
Assign each server to its datacenter, record its IP and use a name the team recognizes. A baremetal server can remain outside any cluster. Datacenter views include cluster hosts and baremetal servers according to user permissions.
Start with the default NIC
The collector attempts to resolve the default route to a physical interface or bond. This avoids selecting every host manually. Bridges, VLANs and bonds need topology awareness: adding a logical interface and its physical ports can count the same bytes more than once.
Inspect other interfaces
In a host view, inspect an alternate interface to investigate storage, replication or another link. This query should not change the uplinks used for the datacenter total. If automatic detection is ambiguous, configure the measurement interface explicitly.
Check collection before interpreting zero
Confirm the collector’s last receipt, selected interface, clock synchronization and HTTPS connectivity to the central service. A registered host without an installed agent produces no history. Missing measurements require investigation and must not be treated as zero consumption.